Filatov, Vladimir Pavlovich

Born on June 15, 1910 in the village of Zalazna of the Glazovsky district of the Vyatka province (now the Omutninsky district of the Kirov region ) in a working class family. Russian From the age of 8 he was raised in the family of a cousin who lived in the working village of Nadezhdinsk . He graduated from high school number 17 and the school of factory apprenticeship . He began his career in 1928 as a steelworker's assistant at the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant .

In 1929, Vladimir Pavlovich entered the Nadezhda Metallurgical College, which he graduated with honors in 1932. Together with a diploma V.P. Filatov received an offer to become a director of a technical school. But his teaching activity did not last long. Soon Vladimir Pavlovich was drafted into the army. After serving military service, he returned to the metallurgical plant and got a job in the open-hearth workshop. He worked as shift supervisor, then as deputy shop manager. In the late 30s of the XX century, the plant mastered the production of new steel grades. It was during this period that the young and talented metallurgist was noticed by the head of the central factory laboratory I.G. Arzamastsev and attracted Vladimir Pavlovich to research work, which enriched him with new knowledge, and formed a creative approach to business.

The Great Patriotic War made serious adjustments to the work of the metallurgical complex of the Urals . In the first months of the war, most of the metallurgical plants of the European part of the USSR, which had the technological capabilities for the production of alloy steels , were either destroyed or in the hands of the enemy, and the defense industry urgently needed metal for the production of tanks, aircraft, artillery guns. The task of producing special steels for military needs was assigned to the metallurgists of the Urals by the government of the country. The difficulty was that by the beginning of the 40s of the XX century, alloy steel was smelted exclusively in electric units, and the Ural factories specializing in the production of carbon steel were equipped with open - hearth furnaces . Before the war in the world, alloying attempts were made in other ways, but they all ended to no avail. Now a similar task was set for the Ural steelworkers.

At the beginning of December 1941, the A.K. Serov Metallurgical Plant received the state task as soon as possible to develop alloy steelmaking technology for the production of crankshafts for the aircraft industry. The best specialists of the plant took up the task, including the deputy head of the open-hearth shop V.P. Filatov. Within a few days, the metallurgical works of the plant laid the theoretical basis for the procedure for producing tungsten alloyed steel in the main open-hearth furnace. December 6, 1941 Vladimir Pavlovich personally conducted trial melting and received high-quality steel with the required properties. Subsequently, he actively participated in the development and implementation of new technologies for the smelting in open-hearth furnaces of high-quality and high-quality steels alloyed with vanadium , molybdenum , nickel , titanium , chromium and other additives, and also organized the production of ball-bearing steel in an acid open-hearth furnace . In 1943, for outstanding inventions and radical improvements in production methods, a group of Serov metallurgists, including V.P. Filatov, was awarded the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. Vladimir Pavlovich transferred part of the prize in the amount of 7000 rubles to the defense fund.

At the beginning of 1944 V.P. Filatov was transferred to the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU . While serving as deputy head of the ferrous metallurgy department, Vladimir Pavlovich for six years oversaw the work of metallurgical enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region .

On December 15, 1949, the director of the Serov Metallurgical Plant M.Kh. Lukashenko suddenly died, and in early 1950 V.P. Filatov returned to Serov again as the director of the enterprise.

By issuing 300 thousand tons of steel by the results of 1945, the Serov Metallurgical Plant reached the maximum possible production volumes, and the country that was recovering after the war urgently needed metal. Further increase in the production capacity of the enterprise was impossible without its radical reconstruction and modernization. Barely assuming the post of director of the plant, V.P. Filatov at one of the first meetings set the enterprise’s specialists to find ways to increase production. As a result of joint efforts, a comprehensive plan for the reconstruction of the open-hearth plant of the plant was developed. Since 1950, open-hearth furnaces for overhaul have been modernized with the latest developments. The working volume of all eight furnaces was significantly increased, as a result of which the total hearth area increased from 268 to 340 square meters. The arches of the furnaces began to be laid out from chromomagnesite refractories , which allowed to increase the life of the furnaces. The furnaces themselves were equipped with automation; furnace heads were structurally improved.

Since the beginning of the 1950s, the technology of high-speed melting was introduced in the open-hearth workshop, as a result of which steel removal from a square meter of the hearth was increased from 3.2 to 5.7 tons. The average weight of the smelter increased from 83 to 126 tons, and the mass of cast ingots increased from 3 to 5 tons. If the duration of smelting in 1946 averaged 14 hours 18 minutes, then by 1955 this figure was 12 hours 2 minutes. Under the direction of V.P. Filatov, the installation of vacuum processing of steel began to work in the open-hearth workshop and the method of hearth high-speed welding developed by the master G.I. Baryshnikov was introduced.

In 1958, with the direct participation of Vladimir Pavlovich, a method for burning sulfur fuel oil in open-hearth furnaces was developed and introduced. As a result of the measures taken, the open-hearth workshop by 1958 increased the volume of steel production by more than double, and after reaching its design capacity in 1962, 872 thousand tons of metal were smelted in the workshop. In 1958, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the director of the Serov Metallurgical Plant named after A.K. Serov was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.

Vladimir Pavlovich remained at the post of director of the plant until 1963. By this time, he had completely completed the reconstruction of the open-hearth shop and brought its productivity to the maximum level. Steel casting was organized in the workshop, and workshop access roads were fundamentally reconstructed.

Being the head of a large metallurgical enterprise V.P. Filatov managed to fulfill a large social burden.

From 1951 to 1963 he was a permanent member of the city committee of the CPSU, was elected a delegate to the XX and XXII congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1963, he was transferred to the post of head of the ferrous metallurgy department of the Central Urals State Economic Council . But in his new position, he worked only a few months. Due to a sharp deterioration in health, Vladimir Pavlovich was forced to resign.

In the same 1963 he returned to Serov. He worked as deputy director of the Serov Metallurgical Plant for capital construction, but in 1971 he was forced to retire due to health problems.

He died on March 29, 1973. He was buried in Serov .

• Stalin Prize I degree (1943)
• three orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1946, 1954);
• Hero of Socialist Labor (Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Medal; 1958);
• medals.

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