Varshavsky, Ivan Nikolaevich

Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky was born on April 10, 1938 in the village of Zagnitkov of the Kodymsky district (now Odessa region ). After graduating from a seven-year school in 1953 , he worked on the construction of a highway in the Kodymsky district - he laid pavers .

In 1957 he was drafted into the army. He served in the border fleet in the Baltic for three years .

After demobilization in 1960, he joined the Odessa-Chisinau Railway , where he worked until 1972 .

In 1964, he attended training courses for foremen at a road technical school, after which he went to study at a school for working youth, which he graduated in 1969 . In the same year he entered the Nikolaev Railway College . But I did not manage to finish it for a number of reasons. He received a diploma of secondary technical education a few years later at the Irkutsk Construction College .

Working on the railroad, he perfectly mastered the profession of a railwayman , led a brigade, and actively participated in public life. And yet, from time to time, he experienced some kind of spiritual dissatisfaction. It was a time of shock Komsomol construction projects. Thundered Bratsk , Ust-Ilimsk , it was rumored that the construction of the Abakan-Tayshet railway .

Warsaw left the region where he was born and raised in 1972 . Together with his family, he leaves for Siberia to work on the Abakan-Tayshet railway line - the “courage route” built by the heroic efforts of the transport builders of the Angarstroy department under the leadership of F.V. Khodakovsky .

He worked in PCh-31 as a quality inspector. He was responsible for the maintenance and overhaul of the ditch . Then he worked as an engineer for labor protection , combining the main activity with the duties of the secretary of the party organization of the traveling distance.

In 1974 , with the start of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway , he quit his previous job and came to BAM, in the village of Tyndinsky (since 1975 - the city of Tynda ).

He begins his work at BAM in SMP-567 of the construction department "Bamstroyput" as the head of ZhKO .

Strict conditions were set for me then, ”recalls Ivan Nikolaevich. - The soul did not lie to the housing and communal services. I don’t like it, where to go, I have to work. And winter is just around the corner, people need warmth. I took up this, it seemed to me, a disastrous business and, surprisingly, quickly got into the cycle of Bam's life.

Ivan Varshavsky led a team engaged in the development of stations and patrols. I brought to the project marks the travel facilities of Belenkaya , Seti, Shakhtaum, Sivachkan, Bestuzhev railway line Bam - Tynda - Berkakit . A major object was the Neryungri-Passenger station. The merit of the brigade in the delivery of the Tynda - Berkakit line , in the development of the track facilities of the Tynda station, is great.

Ivan Varshavsky was not indifferent to what happened in the NSR, the Bamstroyput management, at the construction site as a whole:

As a communist, I honestly complied with the constitutional requirements and the party’s program documents. He taught the minds of young builders, preparing some for joining the ranks of the CPSU, introduced advanced methods of work, cost accounting, instilled a love of construction, poetry ...

Here are the lines written by himself:

Cubic meters were laid in the mound,

The canvas grew

And we walked along the BAM

The link was spreading behind the link ...

By the decision of the party and the leadership of Glavbamstroy, the Communist of Warsaw in 1980 was sent to GOREM-28 (head repair and restoration train No. 28) to lay the track’s upper structure. He led the brigade, which was named after 68 heroes of the paratroopers Konstantin Olshansky , who died during the Great Patriotic War , replacing Valentin Shpenkov on this post.

The team more than once emerged victorious in the socialist competition, was noted as the best in the Central section of BAM. In accordance with the schedule on her account, the laying of "silver" links at the stations of Larba , Ust-Nyukzha , Olekma , Hani , Ikabya , Chara , Leprindo, Sakukan. According to the results of 1983, the brigade was recognized as the best in the Ministry of Transport Construction of the USSR.

You can talk a lot about our successes, but in what way are they achieved? By the incredible difficulties that awaited us on the way to docking: this is natural dirt, wet clothes soaked through, the smell of sweat and materials, cold winds, exhausting heat, heavy rains, snow storms, physical and psychological stresses. These are sleepless nights before Honey, when literally everyone fell down from fatigue. So it was before Ikabya and Chara, Sakukan and Leprindo, before the Kodarsky pass and beyond, so it was before Balbukhta.

When you look back on the path you have traveled, you remember everything with a slight sadness and pride for friends, for the brigade, for passing, not giving up, withstanding ... It’s not only responsible for yourself that a person seeks to support his comrades, share knowledge and experience, even sacrifice something, sacrifice for the sake of others, for the sake of a common cause. And the one who helps, and the one who is helped, become richer from this, a more generous soul. These qualities were inherent in our team.

Most of Ivan Varshavsky’s pupils became good specialists, dispersed to other teams, and led the teams themselves.

On September 29, 1984, at the Balbukhta junction in the Chita Region , at 10.10 Moscow time, the BAM rails closed. The Komsomol-youth brigades of Alexander Bondar and Ivan Varshavsky, who walked towards each other for a long 10 years, met, thereby marking the opening of through traffic throughout the Baikal-Amur Railway (the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway was completed in 1989 , when the highway was put into continuous operation) .

The Bamovskaya epic of Ivan Varshavsky ended in 1985 . From 1985 to 1995, he worked as deputy head of the SMP-596, was engaged in the electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway . Then he returned to the construction site, this time, he was to build a railway line from Ulak station to Elga station, where huge reserves of coking coal were explored. The construction of the line was entrusted to the Baltic construction company Vostok. I.N. Varshavsky worked in one of its divisions (BSK-19) as a deputy general director.

He currently lives in Tynda.

Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky, in addition to the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor , is a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize . He was awarded the Orders of Lenin , “Badge of Honor” , medals “For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway” , “Veteran of Labor” , “100th Anniversary of the Trans-Siberian Railway”, St. Sergey of Radonezh . He received the last award for participating in the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in Tynda. He was awarded the title "Honored Builder of the Russian Federation" .

• Varshavsky, Ivan Nikolaevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Ivan Warsaw is 75 years old
• “Friends and comrades will meet in Tynda” (Amurskaya Pravda, July 8, 2004) (inaccessible link)
• Newspaper "Trans-Baikal Worker"
• ZABmedia.ru Dossier. Varshavsky Ivan Nikolaevich
• Speech of the Hero of Socialist Labor Ivan Warsaw in the Federation Council during the 45th anniversary of the Baikal-Amur Mainline