Vershkov Vitaly Alexandrovich - Soviet electrician, one of the founders of extra high voltage electrical networks (500 kV and above), founder and chief engineer of the 500 kV electrical networks operation department, was at the forefront of the Unified Energy System of the USSR and Russia.
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| Date of Birth | May 11, 1913 |
| Date of death | March 3, 1980 (66 years old) |
| Citizenship | the USSR |
| Spouse | Vershkova Adiya Karimovna |
| Children | son Vershkov Eduard Vitalyevich son Vershkov Vadim Vitalyevich |
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Biography
Born on May 11, 1913. In 1934, after graduating from the Moscow Energy Institute, he came to Mosenergo as a young specialist and quickly advanced to the head of the Volgoelektrosetstroy construction and installation trust. In 1940 he joined the VKP (b).
In the autumn of 1941, under his leadership, a 220 kV overhead line crossing over the Volga was mounted to transfer power to the Rybinsk hydroelectric station to Moscow. The work was carried out in conditions of almost uninterrupted German shelling and bombing.
In the post-war years, V. A. Vershkov led the work on the restoration of the destroyed facilities of the Moscow energy system. From 1950 to 1954, the chief engineer of the High-Voltage Electrical Networks (Air Force) of Mosenergo. In 1954, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Office for the Construction of the First 400 kV Power Transmission System in the USSR of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station - Moscow, later renamed the Office of 400–500 kV Electrical Grid Operations. It was the first organization that managed the construction, operation and repair of extra-high voltage power transmissions in the USSR, a prototype of the current Federal Grid Company.
Vitaly Alexandrovich Vershkov contributed to the construction and organization of operation of the first 400 kV transmission lines in the USSR, was the initiator of the transfer of the 400 kV line to the Kuybyshevskaya HPP - Moscow for a voltage of 500 kV. Vitaly Alexandrovich was one of those people who stood at the very origins of the Unified Energy System of the USSR. His talent and outstanding organizational skills manifested themselves vividly at the beginning of the era of nuclear energy, during the construction of the first 750 kV lines - Belyi Rast - Experienced, Experienced - Leningrad, Kursk NPP - Novobryanskaya and others. and DC test bench at the substation 750 kV Belyast Rast. At this unique facility, newest samples of domestic electrical equipment were tested, and the future of domestic energy was born.
Vitaly Alexandrovich Vershkov’s contribution to the implementation of a large-scale state program to cover the electric power shortage in the Central European part of the country by attracting cheap energy resources in Central Siberia and Kazakhstan is invaluable. He was one of the authors of the idea of ultra-high voltage latitudinal power lines. Under his leadership, projected unparalleled in the world power line 1150 kV Siberia - Kazakhstan - Urals, as well as 1500 kV overhead lines Ekibastuz - Center.
Vitaly Alexandrovich died on March 3, 1980, before reaching the start of the implementation of this ambitious project.
Vitaly Vershkov's work, his brilliant ideas, talent were highly appreciated by his homeland. During his lifetime, he was awarded numerous state and industry awards. For the creation of 500 kV AC power lines Volgograd - Moscow, Vitaly Alexandrovich Vershkov in 1962 was awarded the Lenin Prize .
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- http://www.mosenergo-museum.ru/persons/21.shtml/xPages/item.6261.html (unavailable link)