Borovikov, Gennady Petrovich

Born on October 11, 1936 in the village of Borovikovo, Baikalovsky District, Sverdlovsk Region.

His father died in the Great Patriotic War near Moscow. In her mother’s arms were four children. After graduating from a seven-year school, he went to the city of Serov, where he graduated from a vocational school in 1954 and graduated with honors from a metallurgical technical school ( 1970 ).

Since 1954 - at the ferrous metallurgy enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region, in 1961-1972 - the senior smelter of the Serov Metallurgical Plant.

Initially, he mastered the construction profession of a fittingsman in SMU-22 Metallurgstroy (for four consecutive quarters he was the best by profession in Kamgesenergostroy Production Association). In 1973-1974 he spent 4 months in an internship in the USA (Pittsburgh). He took an active part in the acceptance, installation and commissioning of equipment.

In 1972-1999, G. P. Borovikov at the KAMAZ plant foundry: in 1977-1997, the foreman of the smelters for the production of iron castings (with a break in 1987-1992).

With the personal participation of Borovikov, 11 electric arc smelting and aging furnaces (with a capacity of 50 tons and 75 tons of metal) were mounted and mastered. The design capacity was achieved in the melting furnaces serviced by his team, energy-saving technologies were tested and put into production: transfer of electric furnaces to “ACS - technological process” using computers (in this case, energy savings of 5.8 million kWh were achieved (as of 01.01 .1981), the production of nodular cast iron (instead of malleable), the replacement of chamotte lining with magnesite brick, the introduction of flare gunning .

He died on May 19, 2004 in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. ^[one]

• Gennady Petrovich - participant in the first smelting of cast iron in the body of gray and malleable cast iron (04/22/1976).
• Borovikov's name is entered in the "Chronicle of the Labor Glory of the USSR" 1981–1985. (Moscow, 1984).
• The sculptural portrait of Borovikov (author L. Zimin) was transferred to the city history museum (1989).
• In 2005, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the house in Naberezhnye Chelny, where G. Borovikov lived. ^[2]

• The title of Hero of Socialist Labor was awarded in 1981 for the outstanding successes achieved in the construction of the 2nd stage and the development of KamAZ capacities.
• He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals.
• Honorary Citizen of Naberezhnye Chelny (1999).

• Heroes of Socialist Labor of Tatarstan

Borovikov, Gennady Petrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• They glorified Chelny - Heroes of Socialist Labor (inaccessible link)