Papavin, Alexander Petrovich

Born in 1893 in the village of Klimovsk, Yaroslavl Province , now in the Yaroslavl District of the Yaroslavl Region, into a peasant family. Russian. A teenager went to work in the city.

He began his career in 1909 as a wagon stoker. He graduated from the Yaroslavl Railway School No. 3. From 1912 he worked at the locomotive depot of the Vspolye station (now Yaroslavl-Glavny ) as an assistant mechanic, then as a mechanic, assistant locomotive driver .

In April 1917, became a machinist , received his first locomotive of the U series. Having accepted the abandoned car, he restored it two months later and went on a flight. Exactly on schedule drove the train.

In 1928 he took the Su99-07 passenger train . The car was new, 1927 release. He spent 33 years on the Su99-07 steam locomotive and kept his locomotive for 30 years without major repairs. With careful care, he achieved the extension of the service of every detail. If Peter Krivonos proved that it is possible to drive trains with high speeds and greater weight, then Papavin proved that such work may not affect the condition of the engine.

Papavin's locomotive, where more and more new products were used, began to be called the locomotive-laboratory. Scientists have become interested in the experience of the driver Papavin. He defended the sublattice part of the firebox with brick masonry - the Moscow Electromechanical Institute of Transport Engineers began searching for the optimal construction of the masonry. Papavinskaya practice raised a number of questions to heat engineers. His "recipes" amended the instructions. Experts have calculated: with the money saved by Papavin by the early 1940s, two modern locomotives can be built. In 1940 in Moscow, the book "Management and care of the locomotive by the method of Krivonos and Papavin" was released. Papavin method brochures were published in foreign languages.

The engine of Papvin without failures worked all the war years. By July 1943, A.P. Papavin reported that his locomotive had run without overhaul 1, 148 kilometers at a rate of 250,000.

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 5, 1943 "for special merits in providing transportation for the front and the national economy and outstanding achievements in restoring the railway economy in difficult conditions of wartime" Alexander Petrovich Papavin was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal "Sickle and Hammer . "

After the war, Papavin did not part with his Su99-07 for a long time. Then he redid four more locomotives in his own way, he amplified power. He taught youth.

He worked in railway transport for 51 years. The driver Papavin covered a distance of twenty flights around the globe on his train. In 1958 he retired.

He lived in the city of Yaroslavl . He died on September 22, 1973.

Awarded three Orders of Lenin (11/05/1938, 11/05/1943,?), Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor , medals; sign " Honorary railroad ."

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