Vasily Timofeevich Strunnikov ( 1884 - January 1, 1946 , Leningrad ) - the largest specialist in the theory of the ship. He worked with prominent ship engineers S. Ruberovsky and V. K. Scorcelletti .
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| Place of Birth | Belgorod parish , Kalyazinsky district , Tver province , Russian Empire |
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| Scientific field | shipbuilding |
| Place of work | Baltic factory |
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Biography
V.T. Strunnikov was born in 1884 in the Belgorod volost of the Kalyazin district of the Tver province in a merchant family. He graduated with honors from the fifth classical gymnasium in Moscow and entered the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute .
In 1909 he graduated from the shipbuilding department of the Polytechnic Institute and was left with him "... to prepare for scientific work."
His further scientific and engineering activities were closely associated with the Baltic plant. After graduating from the institute, Vasily Timofeevich Strunnikov joined the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg.
In the reference book “All Petersburg. 1911 ”can be read“ Strunnikov Vasily Timofeevich - Hereditary Honorary Citizen. Marine engineer. Kamenoostrovsky, d.20., Baltic Shipbuilding Plant. From 1912 to 1917 He headed the department of scuba diving at the Baltic Shipyard . With his participation, the submarines "Vepr", "Wolf", "Snake", "Unicorn" were created. In 1918-1919 He was the Deputy Chairman of the Shipbuilding Commission of the Main Committee of State Buildings. In 1920-1921-ies - Head of the North-Western region of water transport. From 1922 to 1930, he was an employee of the Transport Section of the USSR State Planning Committee. V. T. Strunnikov led an active scientific and social activities. From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the NCPS; From 1924 to 1930, he was a member of the Technical Council of the Register of the USSR. From 1929 to 1930 he was the editor of the Shipbuilding Department in the Technical Encyclopedia. In the same years, along with engineering, he was engaged in teaching until 1924 in the rank of assistant professor, and from 1924 in the rank of professor. V. T. Strunnikov gave lectures on the theory of the ship at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, the High School of Water Transport in Leningrad and the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. Dzerzhinsky; taught a course on marine engines at the Lomonosov Institute. On July 22, 1930, Vasily Timofeevich Strunnikov was arrested in the case of the Industrial Party (the union of engineering organizations), the "counter-revolutionary wrecking organization of the top bourgeois engineering-technical intelligentsia and capitalists." The leaders of the Industrial Party were associated with the White Guard emigration, in particular with the Torgprom (the “Trade and Industry Committee”), an association of former Russian industrialists in Paris headed by Ryabushinsky. According to the decision of the Collegium of the OGPU of the USSR of March 18, 1931 on the basis of article 58 pp. 6.7 and 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR sentenced to death with a replacement with a prison in a labor camp for a period of 10 years. According to the decision of the Collegium of the OGPU of July 9, 1933, he was conditionally released early, with the permission to reside freely in the territory of the USSR. After his release, he worked as the head of the shipbuilding section at the Technical Department of the EGU OGPU, then at the Directorate for Exploration and Design of the Volga-Don Union. Supervised the study of types of ships for the projects of the White Sea-Baltic Waterway. Stalin, Manychnogo waterway and the Great Volga. At the same time he was engaged in research of the movement of ships in the locks and was the editor of the theory of the ship's theory of the Encyclopedia of Shipbuilding. Since 1934, V. T. Strunnikov was a member of the Technical Council at the People's Commissar of Water Transport and a member of the Committee on Standardization at the People's Commissariat of Water. Conducted public work, being the chairman of the Bureau of the Shipbuilding Group of the Engineering and Technical Section. From 1940 to 1946 he headed the department of ship mechanics at the Moscow Institute of Fisheries and Farming. This major expert in the theory of the ship died on January 1, 1946. Buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow. By the conclusion of the USSR General Prosecutor's Office dated March 28, 1989, Strunnikov Vasily Timofeevich was rehabilitated.