Alekseev, Alexander Emelyanovich

Born on November 15 ( November 27 ), 1891 in the village Sorokino, Kashinsky district (now Kashinsky district , Tver region ). He began his career in Leningrad at the Electric factory, and at the same time he entered the LETI named after V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) . Back in his student years, under the guidance of Professor Y. M. Gakkel, he designed the PT-100 traction engines for the first Soviet diesel locomotive. Then he participated in the design of the first Soviet tram engines for the tram.

After graduating from the institute in 1925, he works as the head of the department of new designs, and then the technical director of the Leningrad Electric plant. Under the leadership of A. Ye. Alekseev, the first-born of Soviet energy were developed: hydro generators for the Volkhov, Zemo-Avchal, Rion, Svir hydropower plants; the largest Dnieper hydrogenerators in the world in those years, a series of turbogenerators up to 50 MW and other large electric machines that ensure the implementation of the GOELRO plan .

In 1932–1975, A. E. Alekseev worked at LIIZhT , advising on the design of large electric machines at the Elektrosila plant, and then specialists from Novocherkassk and Tbilisi electric locomotive plants and others.

Since 1936 - professor, head of the department "Electric Machines", and in 1943-1953 - dean of the Faculty of Energy LIIZhT . Doctor of Technical Sciences (1938) without defending a dissertation.

During the Great Patriotic War A.E. Alekseev led the creation of the automatic rail welding machine RKSM-200-201. The serial production of this machine in 1945 was of great importance for the restoration of destroyed railways.

In the postwar years, A.E. Alekseev consulted on draft traction motors for AC electric locomotives. For high reliability, the NB418K traction engine was marked by the assignment of State quality marks to the VL80T and VL80R electric locomotives.

Under the leadership of A.E. Alekseev, the first Soviet-made prototype locomotives with asynchronous motors and frequency control were created. Based on the test results of prototypes, industry created an experimental locomotive VL80A-751 with a capacity of 9600 kW and an experimental locomotive TE-120-001 with a capacity of 4000 hp

Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from October 23, 1953 ) in the Department of Technical Sciences (electrical engineering). He worked at the Institute VNIIEM . Transactionses on electric machines , electric traction .

He died on May 16, 1975 in Leningrad. He was buried in the village of Komarovo ( Leningrad Region ).

• Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1949) - for the creation of a rail welding machine
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) - for a textbook for high school "Economic Geography of Foreign Countries", 11th edition (1950)
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• medals

• monograph "Traction electric machines."
• the monograph “The Design of Electric Machines” (the Stalin Prize, 1951, was awarded a second time for the book).

Both books were reprinted in the USSR 5 times and were translated into foreign languages.

• Dombrovsky V.V. Alexander Emelyanovich Alekseev. - L .: Science, 1988.
• Annenkova E. A. ALEKSEEV Alexander Emelyanovich // Scientists - Fund Creators of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Brief Biographical Reference: A – B / scientific. ed. and comp. E. Yu. Basargina, I.V. Tunkina. - SPb. : Renome, 2018 .-- S. 17 .-- 196 p. - (Ad fontes. Materials and research on the history of science; vol. 13). - ISBN 978-5-00125-105-7 . - DOI : 10.25990 / 41p1-de34 .

• A. E. Alekseev on the RAS website