Mikhail Petrovich Arzhakov (September 14, 1903 - June 24, 1977) - Director of the Kaliningrad Engineering Plant from 1950 to 1974, laureate of the USSR State Prize .
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Biography
He was born in the village of Borisovo (currently in the Mozhaysky district of the Moscow region ) into a peasant family.
After serving in the army, he worked at the Soyuz-Gold plant, then entered the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold . In 1932, he began working as an engineer at aircraft factory No. 34. In 1933-1934 he was sent for an internship at the American company Wright Company , and then on a business trip to Germany . Subsequently, he took the post of director of the plant. In 1940 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .
During the war , he led the evacuation of the plant in the city of Kuznetsk , then Troitsk of the Chelyabinsk region and the organization of production in a new place. The fulfillment of this task was marked by the Order of the Red Star in 1943.
In 1944 he was appointed director of the aircraft factory number 43 . In 1950, he graduated from the Academy of Aviation Industry and was appointed director of the plant No. 455 in Kostino , which later became the Kaliningrad Engineering Plant .
Under the leadership of Arzhakov, in 1956, serial production of the first Soviet air-to-air guided missile RS-1-U , as well as other rocket technology, began.
He died on June 24, 1977. He was buried in Moscow at the Vostryakovsky cemetery .
In memory of Mikhail Petrovich Arzhakov, a street was named in Korolev, near Moscow.
Rewards
- Laureate of the USSR State Prize for creating the R-40 rocket (1973)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940)
- Order of the Red Star (1943)
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (1945)
- The order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR
- medals
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Kaliningrad (currently - Korolev )
Sources
- Arzhakov Mikhail Petrovich . The official website of the administration of the city of Korolyov. Date of treatment August 21, 2013.
- Heads of the enterprise: Arzhakov Mikhail Petrovich (Inaccessible link) . Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation OJSC. Circulation date August 21, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016.
- Mikhail Petrovich Arzhakov (Unavailable link) . Space Memorial. Date of treatment August 21, 2013. Archived August 21, 2013.
- Pozamantir R. D. "Rocket and Space Science City Korolev." - M .: IP Struchenevskaya O.V., 2018 .-- 260 p. - ISBN 978-5-905234-12-5 .