Pavel Andreevich Voronin ( July 12, 1903 - September 8, 1984 ) - Soviet military commander, major general of engineering and aviation services ( 1944 ), director and general director of the Znamya Truda aviation production association (Moscow Plant No. 30), twice Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1941 , 1982 ), winner of the Lenin Prize ( 1976 ).
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Biography
Born July 12, 1903 in Kaluga.
In 1920, he went to relatives in Moscow, where he got a job as an apprentice fitter at the Aviation Plant No. 1 . Voronin continued his further education at first in the evening technical school, and later at the I. I. Lepse Engineering Institute. In 1936, he was sent to the United States for eight months to study aviation production.
In the prewar years, on his initiative and with the support of the People’s Commissariat of Aviation Industry , a research and development department was created at plant No. 1 to develop a high-speed high-speed fighter capable of withstanding the German Me-109E. The new department was headed by A.I. Mikoyan and M.I. Gurevich .
In 1940, Pavel Andreevich was appointed deputy commissar of the aviation industry of the USSR . With the outbreak of war, it was on his shoulders that the task of evacuating aviation enterprises to the east of the country fell and establishing serial production of aircraft as soon as possible.
In 1946, Pavel Andreevich was appointed director of the GAZ No. 1 aircraft factory No. 30 created on the former territory, which later received the name MMZ “Banner of Labor”. Under his leadership, the plant continued to produce world-famous aircraft of the Mikoyan design school. Among them was the MiG-9 , which opened the era of jet aviation, as well as: the first supersonic fighter MiG-19 , all-weather MiG-21 and MiG-23 with variable sweep of the wing. In addition, the plant produced aircraft Ilyushin Design Bureau - IL-12, IL-14, IL-18 (IL-2 was produced in the prewar and war years).
Pavel Andreevich enjoyed enormous, almost unquestioned, authority among the managers, engineers and workers of the plant. He was very modest and sincere. According to the recollections of old workers, I always walked around the plant, greeted everyone. All the heads of the workshops and departments had the habit of going into the director’s office in the mornings - to say hello, discuss working moments. When the carpet was brought to his office, he gave it to the factory kindergarten.
He died on September 8, 1984, was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
Rewards
- twice Hero of Socialist Labor (09/08/1941, 02/02/1982)
- 7 Orders of Lenin (including 09/08/1941, 05/25/1944, 07/22/1966, 02/02/1982)
- Order of the October Revolution (1974)
- Order of Kutuzov 1st degree (09.16.1945)
- Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (08.19.1944)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (12.31.1940)
- medals
- Lenin Prize (1976)
Memory
In his homeland, in Kaluga, a bronze bust is installed, a street and a square are named after him.
His name was given to the MiG Production Center, where a memorial plaque was installed in his honor.
On the house on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, where Voronin lived, a memorial plaque was erected in his honor on 08.09.2015.
Notes
Links
Voronin, Pavel Andreevich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
Literature
- Battle of Stalingrad. July 1942 - February 1943: Encyclopedia / Ed. M.M. Zagorulko . - 5th ed., Rev. and add. - Volgograd: Publisher, 2012.- S. 128. - 800 p.