Chudakov, Evgeny Alekseevich

Born on August 20 ( September 1 ), 1890 in the village of Sergievsky (now the city of Plavsk , Tula Region ). He received his first elementary education in the village, having graduated from a four-year school. In 1909, externally passed the high school exam, in August he entered the mechanical department of the Imperial Moscow Technical School . After graduating from college in January 1916 with a degree in Internal Combustion Engines, he was left at the Department of Automobiles and Light Engines. In July 1916 he was sent to England for the purchase and acceptance of cars and motorcycles for the All-Russian Zemstvo Union , which participated in supplying the army with armament and equipment. In March 1918 he returned to Russia and was immediately invited to the Auto Center, and then to the Central Auto Section of the Supreme Economic Council as head of the laboratory department. On November 15, 1918 he was transferred to the post of assistant head of the Scientific Automobile Laboratory (NAL) in the scientific and technical department (ONT) of the Supreme Economic Council.

At that time in Russia there was only one automobile plant , which worked on imported parts. EA Chudakov made a proposal to the Supreme Economic Council of the RSFSR to create a research base for the automotive industry . The proposal was accepted and soon he and his students created the theory of the car, and then the theory of stability and controllability of the car was developed. EA Chudakov made a great contribution to the development of calculation systems: heating the clutch mechanism , calculating the brakes for heating, calculating the cardan mechanism and gearing, which ensures minimal wear of gears.

EA Chudakov began to critically examine the state of all mechanical engineering in the state and asked to create an institution that could unite all branches of mechanical engineering : the theory of machines and mechanisms, wear of parts, design and calculation of machine parts, and technology of mechanical engineering.

Since 1918, he began to teach (lectured on automotive subjects) and at the same time paid great attention to practical knowledge and skills.

He introduced a sound film course on the car, which opened up great opportunities for visual aid of thermal and mechanical processes.

He was chairman of the All-Union Council of Scientific Engineering and Technical Societies, chairman of the editorial board of the encyclopedic directory "Engineering" , a member of the editorial board of TSB , a deputy of the Moscow City Council . He participated in the commissions that examined specific issues of the automotive industry, for example, the ZIS-101 car.

From 1936 to 1938 - head of the department "Cars" (after the reorganization - "Cars and Tractors") of the Moscow Automobile and Tractor Institute named after MV Lomonosov . ^[2]

In 1939 he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1939-1942. One of the founders and first director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1938).

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 1).

The son of E. A. Chudakov is the famous physicist Chudakov, Alexander Evgenievich (1921-2001).

• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943) - for many years of outstanding work in the field of science and technology
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) - for the scientific work "Theory of the Car" (1950)
• two orders of Lenin (including 10.06.1945)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940)
• medals

During the Great Patriotic War, he transferred the Stalin Prize awarded to him to the Defense Fund :

Dear Joseph Vissarionovich!
I sincerely thank the Government for the high appreciation of my work and the award of the prize in your name to me. I will continue to give all my strength to the development of Soviet science and to the struggle against German fascism.
Please award the prize awarded to me in the amount of 100,000 rubles for the construction of the tank column "For Advanced Science"
I wish you good health and energy for many years.
Dedicated to you, Academician E. A. CHUDAKOV

Please accept my regards and thanks to the Red Army, Evgeny Alekseevich, for taking care of the armored forces of the Red Army.
I. STALIN
Izvestia newspaper, April 2, 1943

• Device car elementary course. - 1931
• Car workbook for mechanics and drivers 1934
• Testing a car and its mechanisms. - M., 1935
• Car. - M., 1935
• The influence of lateral elasticity of the wheels on the movement of the car. - M.-L., 1947
• The influence of the tangential elasticity of the wheels on the lateral stability of the car. - M., 1947
• Calculation of the car. - M., 1947
• The influence of lateral elasticity of the wheels on the stability of the car against skidding. - M., 1948
• Rolling car wheel. - M.-L., 1948
• Car theory. - M., 1950
• Spurious power circulation in the mechanisms of a differential car. - M., 1950
• Lateral stability of the car when braking. - M., 1952
• Soviet car. - M., 1952. (joint with Y. E. Malakhovsky)
• Atlas of designs of Soviet cars. Part 1-5. - M., 1948-1954
• Gas mixture engine with internal mixture formation. - M., 1954
• Selected Works. T. 1-2. - M., 1961.

• Chudakov Evgeny Alekseevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

Recommended

• Evgeni Alekseevich Chudakov (On the occasion of the 50th birthday) // “Izv. USSR Academy of Sciences ”. OTN No. 9. - 1940
• Klimenko L. A fighter for the progress of Soviet automotive industry. (On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the birth and the 25th anniversary of the scientific and pedagogical activity of Acad. EA Chudakova.) // "Engineering". - No. 208. - 1940
• Zimelev G.V., Khrushchov M.M. Brief description of scientific, pedagogical, engineering and social activities (E. A. Chudakova) // Evgeny Alekseevich Chudakov (Materials and bibliographies of scientists of the USSR). - M., 1947
• Oding I.A., Zimelev G.V., Khrushchov M.M., Gold B.V. Evgeny Alekseevich Chudakov // Problems of machine science. Sat Art. dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of Acad. E. A. Chudakova. " - M., 1950
• Gold B.V., Petrov V.A. Academician Evgenii Alekseevich Chudakov // E.A. Chudakov. "Selected Works." T. 1. - M., 1961
• Alekseev Yu. G. Evgeny Chudakov. - M .: Mosk. worker, 1983

• Profile of Evgeny Alekseevich Chudakov on the official website of the RAS
• Chudakov Evgeny Alekseevich