Vasily Semyonovich Jemelyanov

Vasily Semjonowitsch Jemeljanow ( Russian Василий Семёнович Емельянов ; born February 12, 1901 in Chwalynsk , † June 27, 1988 in Moscow ) was a leader in the Soviet steel and nuclear industry.

Life

His father was a carpenter . In 1908 the family went to Baku to find work , where the parents and five children lived in one room. In Baku, Jemelyanov worked in the oil fields for three months as a twelve-year-old in the summer, and in the winter he gave other students tutoring for money. In 1918 he fought together with his father and his younger brother in the Red Army against the whites who were advancing on Baku. After the conquest of Baku, he worked at the telegraph office and offered illegal resistance. As party secretary, he took part in the armed uprising in Baku on April 28, 1920. After the civil war he studied metallurgy at the Mining Academy in Moscow until 1928 by order of the party . In the dormitory he made lifelong friendships with Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev and the later Minister for War Production Tevosyan. Then worked in the Ruhr area at the Krupp company as an acceptance engineer for deliveries to the Soviet Union. The Nazis' seizure of power ended its activities in 1934. He then headed the first Soviet electric steelworks in Chelyabinsk . In 1937 Tewossjan appointed him to head the production of armor plates. He also became chairman of the standardization committee. He developed the cast turret for the T-34 tank . After the war he became head of the Soviet nuclear authority.

He was a hero of socialist work , professor and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

Jemelyanov reports that around 50 years after his grandfather brought the first kerosene lamp to his home village in 1908 and the whole village marveled at it, he had one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world built on the site of the village.

Works

• My time, my comrades and me . Berlin 1976.

literature

• Annelie and Andrew Thorndike: The Russian Miracle . Berlin 1963, pp. 416-455.