Ushakov, Konstantin Ivanovich

Childhood and study

Born and raised in a private-owned village at the Nevyansk iron and smelting plant - one of the oldest metallurgical enterprises in the Urals, the first city-factory in the world, founded in 1701. The place of birth influenced the choice of a future profession. He studied at the oldest professional educational institution in the Urals, leading its history since 1721 - the Sverdlovsk Mining and Metallurgical College , after which in 1931 he entered the Ural Polytechnic Institute . In 1934 he graduated from the institute, receiving the qualification of an engineer in the field of non-ferrous metallurgy . ^[2]

Work

• 1934 - Research Engineer Research Institute Uralgintsvetmet (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg );
• 1935-1941 - head of the laboratory of the theory of metallurgical processes of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (Sverdlovsk);
• 1941-1947 - the chief of the site, the deputy chief of the workshop, the chief engineer of the Kirovgrad smelter ( Sverdlovsk region );
• 1947-1954 - Director of the Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Plant ( Chkalovskaya (now Orenburg) Region );
• 1954-1957 - Head of the Main Directorate of the Copper and Nickel Industries (Glavmednikel) of the USSR Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy ;
• 1957-1958 - Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Mining Industry of the Orenburg Economic Council ;
• 1958-1985 - Head of the Pyro Process Laboratory, Director of the State Research Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals " Gintsvetmet " (Moscow) ^[3] .

Sport

K. I. Ushakov was an avid hockey fan. As the director of the Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Plant, he himself played ball hockey at the city stadium ^[4] . In 1953, he invited two teams from other cities who played “Canadian” hockey with the puck to Mednogorsk for demonstration performances ^[5] . Since 1955, when Ushakov had already left Mednogorsk, the local team of the Copper-Smelter Combine started training on ice hockey. In 1956, she first performed at the tournament. That was the beginning of the hockey club Metallurg (Mednogorsk) .

On the initiative of Ushakov, in 1949, basketball courts and a tennis center with four outdoor courts were built at the stadium in Mednogorsk , one of which was with a red-brown clay coating and with a mesh fence. Amateur courts and city competitions were held on the courts ^[6] . Near the stadium, the Blyava River was blocked by a dam, creating a pond with an area of ​​3000 m² (it was subsequently liquidated) ^[7] .

K. I. Ushakov is one of the founders of the scientific school of pyrometallurgy ^[8] , the author of more than one hundred scientific publications. Under his leadership, developed and introduced into production:

• technology and design of a smelting smelting unit at the Almalyk mining and metallurgical plant (city of Almalyk , Uzbekistan );
• autoclave technology for the processing of pyrrhotite concentrates at the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine ( Norilsk );
• technology for autogenous smelting of copper sulfide raw materials in shaft furnaces using oxygen enriched blast at the Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Plant ;
• copper foil production at the Pyshminsky Copper Electrolyte Plant in the Sverdlovsk Region (now the Uralelectromed enterprise) and at the Kyshtym Copper Electrolyte Plant in the Chelyabinsk Region .

For the development and industrial introduction of technology and equipment at the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine, a highly efficient leading process of autogenous oxygen-torch melting with the utilization of sulfur and heat of the waste metallurgical gases, a group of specialists, which included K.I.Ushakov, was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.

• Order of Lenin (1977)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1967)
• Medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal "50th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Veteran of Labor Medal
• USSR State Prize (1982)
• Honorary title " Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR " (1973)

Monograph

• Mine sulphide smelting and ways to improve it. M.: Metallurgy, 1981. - 152 p. (co-author: R.I. Felman, V.I. Sadykov).

Copyright certificates (partially)

• A. s. No. 159036 "Method for processing copper sulfide ores by copper smelting." Priority 02/26/1963. Publ. 1963, Bull. State Committee of the Inventions No. 23. (co-author: V.I. Sadykov, G.Z. Geniatullin, V.N. Urubko, R.A. Leshevsky, I.V. Novak, P.I. Felman). ^[9]
• A. s. No. 550440 "The mixture for the preparation of briquettes." Priority 06/07/1974. Publ. 03/15/1977. (co-author: P. I. Felman, L. A. Blinova).
• A. s. No. 908888 "Method for the processing of sulfide raw materials." Priority 11/3/1978. Publ. 02/28/1982. (co-author: M. E. Khilko, P. I. Felman, V. I. Sadykov, E. I. Kalnin, P. A. Kovgan).

• Altov V.G. Mednogorsk. - Chelyabinsk: South Ural. Prince Publishing House, 1989 .-- 224 p. ISBN 5-7688-0246-0 .
• Ural Engineers: Encyclopedia. III volume / Ch. ed. N. I. Danilov - Yekaterinburg: “The Ural Worker,” 2012-1064 p. ISBN 978-5-85383-494-1