Anatoly Ivanovich Semenov ( 1908 - 1973 ) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant-General of the Soviet Army [1] [2] . Hero of Socialist Labor. Winner of two Stalin Prizes.
| Semyonov Anatoly Ivanovich | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | November 12 (25) 1908 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Ridge Moscow Province Russian empire | |||||||||||||||
| Date of death | April 16, 1973 (64 years) | |||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | |||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||
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| Years of service | 1931 - 1970 | |||||||||||||||
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| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born on November 12 ( November 25 ), 1908 in the village of Khrebtovo (now Konstantinovsky District (Moscow Region) ).
In the Red Army since 1931 . In 1932 he graduated from an artillery school in Moscow , then began his studies at the F. Dzerzhinsky Military Academy , in 1937 he graduated from it.
Since 1937, he began serving in the artillery of the Red Army , took the post of chief of a separate artillery branch of the Central Khimpoligon (Shikhan). Member of the CPSU (b) .
In November 1941, he took the post of head of the department of special shells of the Main Weapons Directorate of the Guards mortar units, then he was head of the scientific and technical department. Participated in the development of projectiles for rocket mortars "Katyusha" .
In October 1944 he was appointed to the post of head of the Guards mortar units of the Artillery Committee of the Red Army .
After the end of the war he held various positions in the State Agrarian University, was the deputy head of the 4th department, in 1951 he took the post of the head of this department.
In 1953 he took the post of chief engineer of the Office of the Deputy Commander of Artillery for Jet Weapons. In August 1954 he was appointed deputy commander of artillery for jet weapons.
From May 1955 he served as chief of the jet weapons of the USSR Armed Forces . One of the founders of the new kind of troops - the Strategic Missile Forces .
In April 1960, he took the post of Chief of the Main Directorate of Rocket Armament, in June of the same year he became a member of the Military Council of the Strategic Missile Forces . He took an active part in the testing of the latest Soviet ballistic missiles, then participated in the launch of the world's first artificial satellite of the planet, and then the first cosmonaut.
From August 1964 to November 1969 he was a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the General Staff for Rocket Launchers.
Since February 1970 in stock.
He died on April 16, 1973 . He was buried in Moscow at Vvedensky cemetery .
Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labor ( June 17, 1961 ) - for the successful implementation of the launch of the world's first manned spacecraft [1] .
- four orders of Lenin (1956; 1956; 1957; 1961)
- Order of the Red Banner (1953)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944)
- Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (1944)
- Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1945)
- two orders of the Red Star (1942; 1946)
- medals
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943) - for the development of new types of weapons
- Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) - for work in the field of mechanical engineering
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Semenov, Anatoly Ivanovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- ↑ Semenov, Anatoly Ivanovich - biography . Encyclopedia website MO RF . The date of circulation is June 17, 2013. Archived June 18, 2013.
Literature
- Military Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Missile Forces / Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; Ch. Ed.: I. D. Sergeev , V.N. Yakovlev , N.E. Solovtsov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1999. - 632 p. - 8500 copies - ISBN 5-85270-315-X . . - S.473-474.
- The task of special national importance. From the history of nuclear missiles and the Strategic Missile Forces (1945-1959) (the authors and compilers are V. I. Ivkin, G. A. Sukhina).