Polushkin, Fedor Fedorovich

Born on June 3 ( June 16 ), 1910 . Graduated from LCSI (1936). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1947.

He began his career in 1927 as a draftsman in the design bureau of the Leningrad Baltic Plant.

As he mastered the methods of designing submarines, acquiring and consolidating practical design skills, he moved up the ladder of design posts up to the chief designer of the project, and then was appointed head of TsKB-18.

In October 1939, TsKB-18 completed the development of a technical design for a small diesel-electric submarine of the XV series . The main designer of the project was Polushkin F.F.

Before the start of World War II , 15 submarines of the XV series were laid in Leningrad at the Sudomekh plant (7 hulls) and in Gorky at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant (8 hulls). Four of them were surrendered to the fleet during the war (the first on March 20, 1943, and the fourth on October 28, 1944). Boats were built at the NSR in Severodvinsk (two hulls) and at the Shipbuilding Plant in Astrakhan . After World War II, another 53 submarines of this series were built. Their construction was carried out in Leningrad at the Sudomeh Shipbuilding Plant in 1946-1953.

In 1951, at TsKB-18, under the leadership of the chief designer Polushkin F.F., on an initiative basis, in order to improve the tactical and technical characteristics of the submarines of the XV series, the development of the technical design of a small submarine of the "Baby" type, project 96M, was completed. According to the project, it was planned to install new gyrocompass, radar and sonar stations, a paired anti-aircraft artillery installation, a device for operating the engine under water (RDP), a new high-capacity battery, more powerful rowing electric motors and other devices on the submarine. Work on the project was discontinued after the development of the working draft and their transfer to the Krasnoye Sormovo plant (1952). The cessation of work on the project was due to the fact that at TsKB-18, parallel to the development of a new submarine project of the "Baby" type with improved characteristics.

1950 - March 1953 - Head of the Submarines Department (3rd Division), Deputy Head of the 5th Head of the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry, Moscow. In March 1953, the Ministry of Shipbuilding was merged with the USSR Ministry of Transport and Heavy Engineering. March 1953 - April 1954 - head of the submarine department (3rd department), deputy head of the 5th main department of the USSR Ministry of Transport and Heavy Engineering, Moscow.

Since April 1954, the Ministry of the shipbuilding industry regained independence. April 1954-1957 - Head of the Submarines Division (3rd Division), Deputy Head of the 5th Head of the USSR Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry, Moscow.

1957-1958 - Chief Engineer of the 1st Main Directorate of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Shipbuilding, Moscow. 1958 - June 1962 - head of the subdivision of the shipbuilding industry of the defense industry department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Moscow.

June 1962-1965 - Chief Engineer, First Deputy Head of the 1st Main Directorate of the USSR State Committee for Shipbuilding (since 1963 - USSR State Committee for Shipbuilding), Moscow.

1965-1973 - Chief Engineer, First Deputy Head of the 1st Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry, Moscow.

In 1950-1958 he exercised leadership and control over the creation, testing and transfer to the Navy:

• large torpedo submarines of project 611. In 1953-1958 at the LSSZ Sudomeh and at the shipyard in Severodvinsk ;
• Project 613 medium torpedo submarines. Submarines were built in large series in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant, at the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, at the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolaev , at the Shipbuilding Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur .

He died on November 17, 1990 . He was buried in Moscow in the columbarium of the Vagankovsky cemetery .

• Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946) - for the development of the design of a new type of warship (submarine XV series)

• 1941 1945 - Bookmark of 15 submarines of the XV series.

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