Tarasov, Vasily Ivanovich

Born in 1905 in the village of Shaulino, Vyaznikovsky district, Vladimir region.

He was a farm laborer , courier and trafficker at the plant, a student and a graduate student of the MAI , an engineer, a department chair and deputy chief designer, director of aircraft factories. He was head of the Main Department of Educational Institutions (GUUZ) of the People’s Commissariat of the Aviation Industry (1939–1940), and then Head of the 4th Main Department of the People’s Commissariat of the Aviation Industry (1940–1942). Deputy People's Commissar of the aviation industry (1942-1946). Director of the engine-building plant number 16 of the People's Commissariat of the aviation industry of Kazan (now "Kazan Motor-Building Production Association" ) (1946-1947). Head of the laboratory of the OKB plant No. 117 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad) (1947-1951). He headed the department "Design and technology of production of engines" in the Military Mechanical Institute in Leningrad (now the Baltic State Technical University "Voenmech" ) (1949-1951). Deputy Chief Designer for Research Work of Plant 117 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad) (1951-1956). Director of the factory of the PO Box No. 476 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad) (now St. Petersburg OAO Red October) (1956-1959). Head of the Instrument-Making Unit of Lensovnarhoz (Leningrad) (1959–1966). Director of the organization of PO Box No. 472 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad), State All-Union Design Organization of Control and Automation Equipment (1966-1968).

Higher education (graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1932). Member of the CPSU (b) from 1925. Party organizer of the plant number 24 (Moscow) from 1937 to 1939.

In 1924 he entered the workers' faculty at the Moscow Higher Technical School in 1924 (now the Bauman Moscow State Technical University ). After graduating from the workers' school, in 1928 he became a student at the aeromechanical faculty of Moscow State Technical University. In 1930, this faculty was transformed into the Moscow Aviation Institute . “In 1925, the aeromechanical department was organized at the mechanical faculty of the Moscow State Technical University (now MSTU), and since 1929 the aeromechanical department. On March 20, 1930, the All-Union Aviation Association of the VSNKh of the USSR organized the Higher Aeromechanical School (VAMU) on the basis of the aeromechanical department of the Moscow Technical University, which was named the Moscow Aeromechanical Institute on July 23, and received the name of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) on August 29. Institute, Faculty of Motor Engineering (in 1945, renamed the Faculty of Aircraft Engines), graduating in 1932 as an engineer-mechanic with assignment to alifikatsii mechanical engineer.

He was buried in Leningrad (the obituary was placed in the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper dated January 15, 1975 on 4 pages).

Track record

• 09.1917-12.1919 - Courier factory ex. Gustav Liszt (Moscow - after nationalization, the plant was called “Plant No. 5”, “Hydrofilter”, “Red Torch”, “Fighter”).
• 02.1920-06.1920 - Table attendant of the Rosa Luxemburg factory (Vyazniki MGH).
• 06.1920-08.1922 - Batrak village of Shaulino, Vyaznikovsky district, Vladimir region.
• 08.1922-10.1923 - Unemployed.
• 11.1923-09.1928 - Thresher of the Serp and Molot plant (Moscow) .
• 09.1928-06.1932 - Student of the Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow).
• 10.1931-03.1933 - Engineer of the Central Institute of Aviation Engineering (Moscow).
• 03.1933-11.1937 - Researcher and graduate student of the Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow).
• 09.1937-02.1939 - Party Party of the Central Committee of the CPSU of Plant No. 24 (Moscow).
• 02.1939-02.1940 - Head of the GUUZ of the People's Commissariat of the aviation industry (People 's Commissariat of Aviation Industry ).
• 02.1940-11.1940 - Secretary of the Party Committee of the People's Commissariat of the aviation industry .
• 11.1940-11.1942 - Head of the 4th Main Directorate of the People’s Commissariat of the Aviation Industry .
• 11.1942-02.1946 - Deputy People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry (People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry was Shahurin AI )
• 02.1946-08.1947 - Director of the Engine-Building Plant No. 16 of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry (Kazan, now Kazan Engine-Building Production Association )
• 08.1947-06.1951 - Head of the Laboratory of the Design Bureau of Plant No. 117 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad).
• 02.1949-06.1951 Head of the Department of Aviation Engines of the Military Mechanical Institute (Leningrad) - Part-time work.
• 06.1951-02.1956 - Deputy Chief Designer for Research and Development Work of Plant 117 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad).
• 02.1956-09.1959 - Director of the Plant of the PO Box No. 476 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad, now - Saint- Petersburg JSC Red October ).
• 09.1959-02.1966 - Head of the Unit-Instrument-Making Department of Lensovnarhoz (Leningrad).
• 02.1966-1968 - Director of the organization of the PO Box No. 472 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (Leningrad), Head of the State All-Union Design Organization for Means of Control and Automation.

Participation in elected bodies

• 1938-1945 Member of the Plenum of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU (Moscow).
• 1938–1940 Member of the Bureau of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Moscow).
• 1940-1941 Member of the Bureau of Rostokinsky RK CPSU (Moscow).
• 1946-1947 Member of the Plenum of the Party Committee of the CPSU (Kazan).
• 1957-1959 Member of the Plenum of Vyborg RK CPSU (Leningrad).
• 1958–1963 Member of the Vyborg and Zhdanov District Councils (Leningrad).
• 1963-1965 Member of the City Council (Leningrad).

• The first wife - Melnikova Anna Efimovna (June 26, 1909).
• The second wife - Tarasova (Pavlukhina) Claudia Vasilyevna (March 29, 1916).
• Children from the first wife - Tarasov Evgeny Vasilyevich (October 13, 1929) and Tarasov Anatoly Vasilyevich (August 5, 1933).
• Children from the second wife - Ponomareva (Tarasova) Klavdiya Vasilyevna (October 21, 1939) and Kukharenko (Tarasova) Natalia Vasilyevna (December 3, 1949)

• Order of Lenin (09/16/1945)
• two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1943, 1962)
• Order of the Red Star (1941)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1956)
• medals

• Shakhurin, Alexey Ivanovich

• S. Ganin. “Chief Designer Anatoly Sergeyevich Mevius” Military-technical collection Bastion No. 4, 2000, p. 13-22. (not available link) PDF
• The Department of Aircraft Engines and Power Installations - previously the Department of Engine Design and Technology of the Baltic State Technical University VOENMECH.
• The article “Vasily Ivanovich Tarasov” in “Aviation of Russia. Biographical encyclopedia. 1909-2009. ”Ed. A. N. Zelenin. - M .: “Metropolitan Encyclopedia”, 2009. - 800s. p.549. ISBN 978-5-903989-03-4
• Top managers of KMPO: Tarasov, Vasily Ivanovich