Bronzos, Konstantin Ivanovich

Konstantin Bronzos was born on December 28, 1890 in Taganrog . His father was a quarry worker.

In 1902, Konstantin graduated from Makeevka elementary school and went to work in the mine: first as a lamp-holder, later as a miner. In 1904, his mother died of pulmonary tuberculosis .

From 1904 to 1906, Bronzos worked as a turner student at the Makeevsky Metallurgical Plant. In 1908, he worked as a turner in Taganrog at the Nev-Wilde boiler plant. In the winter of 1908, Bronzos and his entire family contracted typhus . Konstantin's father died of the disease, and Konstantin himself, having recovered, remained very weak, because of which he was dismissed from the boiler plant.

Then, Bronzos spent 4 years swimming as a fireman on a steam schooner, married, worked as a turner in the mechanical workshop of the Makeevka Metallurgical Plant, from where he was dismissed in 1914 for participating in labor unrest. In 1912, in Taganrog, Konstantin Bronzos joined the underground organization of the RSDLP . In 1916 he moved to Melitopol, where he began working at the Barsky mechanical plant (now the Melitopol Motor Plant ).

In 1917, Konstantin Bronzos took an active part in the revolutionary events in Melitopol, and the Bolsheviks elected him chairman of the city party committee. In 1918-1920, he took part in the Civil War , fighting in the ranks of the Red Army . Then, the Radomyslian Uyezd Congress of Soviets, Bronzos was elected a delegate to the VII All-Russian Congress of Soviets .

In 1920, he was elected a member of the bureau of the Zaporizhzhya Provincial Party Committee, then became chairman of the Zaporizhzhya Provincial Administration . In the spring of 1921 he was delegated to the X All-Russian Party Congress. At this time, in March 1921, the Kronstadt uprising broke out , and Bronzos took part in its suppression.

In 1922, he was appointed deputy chairman of the All-Russian Syndicate of Rural Engineering, and moved to Moscow . In 1925, Bronzos was sent to Kazakhstan to the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Atbasar Non-Ferrous Metal Trust. Since then, he continued to work in the non-ferrous metallurgy industry until 1954.

In December 1954, for health reasons, Bronzos retired, and since 1955 he lived in a boarding school of Communist Party veterans in the Moscow region in Peredelkino .

• Bronze bust near the House of Culture "October" in Melitopol (in 2016 dismantled).
• Bronzos Street is the former name of Sadovaya Street in Melitopol.

• Konstantin Ivanovich Bronzos on the website of the Melitopol Vedomosti
• Autobiography of K. I. Bronzos on the website of the Zaporizhzhya police
• Bronzos, Konstantin Ivanovich , Museum of the Melitopol Locomotive Depot
• Fomina, O. A. K. I. Bronzos, Honorary Citizen of Melitopol // Melitopol Local History Journal, 2013, No. 1, p. 22-24