Alexandrov, Semyon Petrovich

Born in 1891 in the city of Aleksandrovsk-Grushevsky (currently the city of Shakhty , Rostov Region ). Subsequently, he moved with his parents to Turkmenistan, and then to Uzbekistan, where in 1908 he graduated from the 7-year-old Tashkent Real School .

In 1908, Semyon Aleksandrov entered the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, but due to financial difficulties he was forced to work continuously (as an assistant to a geologist, as a cartographer), in connection with which his institute studies lasted for a long time. From April to December 1914, Aleksandrov was the head of geological exploration for the radium expedition in Ferghana, and in 1915, at the Mürgerd and Company society in the North-Western Urals ( Vishera River).

Upon returning to Petrograd in 1914 , Aleksandrov entered the work as an assistant to the head of the office of the Petrograd factory of the Zultser brothers, and in the summer of 1917 he became head of one of the departments of the wire department of the Central Military Industrial Committee.

After the Great October Socialist Revolution, S.P. Alexandrov in July 1918 was invited to work as a researcher at the State Radium Institute, where he has been engaged in research for more than four years and begins to teach at the Mining Institute. In 1922 he graduated from the Mining Institute and at the same time special courses (prototype of graduate school) of the mining department of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR .

From January 1923, Aleksandrov was authorized for the Tyuya-Muyun radium mine in the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan , and in September 1925 he became a member of the board of the Rare Metals Trust , and remained in this post until the end of 1930 .

In 1928-1929, Aleksandrov traveled to the United States , where he studied, on the instructions of the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR, methods of mining and processing ores of rare metals.

In 1932, he held the position of Deputy Director for Research at the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold. By the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission dated December 23, 1936, S.P. Aleksandrov was approved in the academic rank of “Professor” in the Department of Mineral Processing, and on March 17, 1937 he was awarded the degree of “Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences”.

From December 7, 1938, S.P. Aleksandrov was deputy chairman of the expedition commission on the Kolyma River at the NKVD of the USSR , and from February 20, 1939 to July 13, 1940, he was the chairman of the commission of the NKVD of the USSR on the development of the Dalstroy plan for the third five-year plan.

Since the summer of 1940, Aleksandrov was deputy head of the Mining and Metallurgical Industry Directorate of the Main Camp Administration ( GULAG ) of the NKVD of the USSR, and on July 1, 1941 he became deputy head and chief engineer of the GULAG of the mining and metallurgical enterprises of the NKVD of the USSR. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1949 .

In 1945-1946, on the special assignment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, S. P. Alexandrov was sent to Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Germany. In the years 1946-1947 in the United States, he was a scientific adviser to A. A. Gromyko in the UN Atomic Commission and in testing atomic bombs on the Pacific atoll Bikini ( Marshall Islands archipelago).

Letter from L.P. Beria to I.V. Stalin on the appointment of D.V. Skobeltsyn and S.P. Aleksandrov as expert consultants of the USSR representative to the UN Commission on Atomic Energy Control:

Owls secretly
Comrade Stalin I.V.
In accordance with your instructions, as expert advisers to the representative of the USSR in the United Nations Atomic Energy Control Commission, the following persons have been appointed:
1. Skobeltsyn Dmitry Vladimirovich — corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, professor at Moscow State University, director of the Atomic Nuclear Research Institute at Moscow State University, and head of the atomic nucleus and cosmic rays laboratory of the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
2. Alexandrov Semyon Petrovich - professor, mining engineer, head of the Dalstroy group at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
TT Skobeltsyn and Aleksandrov received the necessary instructions, equipment and money from the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. T. Gromyko asks to expedite the departure of expert consultants.
TT Skobeltsyn and Alexandrov will fly to New York on May 19 this year.
L. Beria
16.V.46

On July 14, 1948, by order No. 897 of the USSR Minister of Internal Affairs, Colonel Engineer S. P. was appointed director of the Magadan Research Institute of Gold and Rare Metals. So it was organized and soon began work VNII-1.

In early 1950, Aleksandrov was appointed chief engineer of the Special Administration under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. But soon he was again sent to Magadan , where from the spring of 1952 to the summer of 1954 he still headed VNII-1. In October 1953 , according to the conclusion of the medical labor expert commission, S. P. Alexandrov was recognized as a disabled person of the third group, and living in the Far North was contraindicated.

Returning to Moscow, Alexandrov continued his research activities. He taught at the Department of Technology of the Moscow State Economic Institute. In January 1962, S.P. Alexandrov died. He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedensky cemetery .

Semyon Petrovich Alexandrov - author of more than 50 fundamental works.

• Hero of Socialist Labor ( decree of October 29, 1949 - for leading the development and development of a new ore base of uranium
• Order of Lenin (10.29.1949)
• two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (11.1. 1941 ; 24.2. 1945 )
• Order of the Red Star (4.7. 1943 )
• medals "For Labor Valor" (17.1. 1943 )
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" ( 1946 )
• medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ( 1946 ).
• Stalin Prize of the first degree (29.10. 1949 ) - for leading the development and development of a new ore base of uranium

• Bogunenko N.N., Pelipenko A.D., Sosnin G.A. Belov Anatoly Sergeevich // Heroes of the atomic project. - Sarov: Rosatom, 2005 .-- S. 38-41. - ISBN 5-9515-0005-2 .

Alexandrov, Semyon Petrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Alexandrov Semen Petrovich