Grachev, Alexander Petrovich

Alexander Petrovich Grachev was born on April 12, 1928 in the village of Saray-Gir, Orenburg Region. When the Great Patriotic War began, seventh grader Sasha Grachev worked at a local collective farm. In the post-war period, until 1950, he worked as a traveler. Then he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army, and served in the Far East in the Marine Corps for three and a half years. Demobilized, Alexander Grachev went to his sister in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk , worked at the metallurgical plant named after Stalin. Two years later he moved to Bashkiria. There he graduated from a vocational school, mastered the profession of an electrician, and went to the city of Mezhdurechensk on a Komsomol trip.

To mine them. Lenin Alexander Grachev came in 1959. He worked as a winch, a deliveryman, rigger, miner, electrician , assistant, then as a combine operator . In 1968, he was appointed the foreman of the treatment team, which immediately became involved in the All-Kuzbass movement under the motto “Every load, complex, machine, mechanism has a high load” and the first one at the Tomusinsky mine reached a thousand-day daily load on the complex.

In 1970, the shock foreman was awarded the first award - the Order of Lenin. In 1974, Alexander Petrovich was awarded the title of Honorary Miner. A year later, the residents of Mezhdurechensk elected A.P. Grachev deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.

1975 is the most significant year in the biography of Alexander Petrovich. The deputy brigade leader in Moscow is awarded the second Order of Lenin and is awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor. The surname of the foreman is listed on the Board of Honor of the leading workers of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR.

In 1985, Grachev moved to the village of Zverevo, Rostov Region, and worked at the Obukhovskaya mine. In 1995, retired.

• Grachev, Alexander Petrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• The team of underground testers. (inaccessible link)