Kiknadze, Grigory Semenovich

Born on February 14, 1897 in the village of Chheri, Shoropansky district, Kutaisi province, Republic of Georgia in a peasant family. Georgian. He graduated from a village school in the village of Kharaguli. When the family moved to the valley, he continued his studies at the Tiflis six-grade railway school. At 9 years old was left without a father. As an elder, it was hard for him to feed an orphaned family. With the help of distant relatives, I was able to graduate from the railway school and immediately go to work.

Since 1912, a teenager, and then a young man worked on the railway: a clerk, telegrapher, and later a duty officer at distant stations and small journeys in Transcaucasia. When the Turks attacked Armenia, he fled to Tiflis, where he was mobilized into the army. The army service was not long, the young man was rejected by sight. Having demobilized, he got a job as a clerk in the Georgian Railway Department, and in the evenings he persistently studied in general education courses. Later he was an inspector-instructor, head of the unit, inspector of the road management. He graduated in absentia at the Tiflis Polytechnic Institute , as well as courses of railway engineers at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers.

In November 1933, Kiknadze was appointed head of the Batum station. The new chief competently organized the accounting and control of the movement of tanks with fuel, developed and implemented a system of accurate accounting of the performance of indicators for each shift, organized a competition between them. Constant attention was paid to the selection and placement of personnel in work shifts. In the winter of 1934, as a result of the implementation of the Kiknadze method, labor productivity increased significantly, and the Batum station was recognized as one of the best on the road network. Delegations from the Transcaucasian, Turksib and other railways began to come here to learn from its work experience. His work experience was propagated in newspapers.

A year later, the innovator was appointed head of the Tiflis branch of the operation service. Three months later, this department from the last place on the road came to the first. In April 1936, G. S. Kiknadze was awarded the Order of Lenin . Soon he was appointed head of the freight service of the main line, then a road auditor for train safety, and in August 1937, deputy head of the road.

In April 1939, after B. N. Arutyunov was appointed Deputy People's Commissar , Kiknadze headed the Transcaucasian highway and subsequently successfully led it for 15 years.

Since the beginning of World War II, Kiknadze has been the NKPS Commissioner for the Transcaucasian Front and a member of the Military Council of the Front. Years of harsh testing were the highlight of the work of the highway. 19 GKO and NKPS Red Banners were awarded to the road.

Particularly difficult was the year 1942, when opponents seized the North Caucasus to the Terek and cut off the road from the center. The delivery of petroleum products through the Caspian Sea to Krasnovodsk and along the Kizlyar-Astrakhan line with a crossing to the left bank of the Volga and further to Saratov was established . It was necessary to urgently send Chiatura manganese to the Ural plants to increase the strength of tank armor.

The care of the chief of the Transcaucasian road was also the southern direction. In 1941, to prevent the Nazis from seizing Iranian oil, British troops entered Iran from the south, and Red Army units from the north. For the contingent of Soviet troops, military supplies went through the Transcaucasian Railway: food, fodder, uniforms, etc. At the same time, Kiknadze supervised the military-operational branches in Tehran and Tavriz, since cargoes were delivered to the USSR through Iran via land lizu .

G. S. Kiknadze paid great attention to the work of the railways of the North Caucasus. In 1942, he completed the task of evacuating rolling stock from the Crimea, as well as from the road named after KE Voroshilov after the occupation of Rostov by the enemy. And when the liberation from the enemy of the North Caucasus and the Kuban began, the Transcaucasian Railway assisted the neighbors in organizing the movement of trains.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 5, 1943, "for special merits in providing transportation for the front and the national economy and outstanding achievements in restoring the railway industry in difficult wartime conditions," Kiknadze Grigory Semenovich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and Golden Sickle and Hammer medals.

The merits of the general director of the 1st rank movement G. S. Kiknadze during the war years were also marked by two Orders of the Red Star and the Order of Kutuzov of the 1st degree.

After the war, he remained at his post, continuing to lead the Transcaucasian mainline. On his initiative in the postwar years was made technical roads. In all the most important areas, continuous electrification was carried out, self-locking was introduced. A private hydroelectric power station was built in the mountain gorge, which gave the state great savings of liquid and solid fuels. From 1946 to 1954, G. S. Kiknadze was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . In 1947 he was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR. In 1951, G. S. Kiknadze was awarded the Third Order of Lenin .

The black line in the life of G.S. Kiknadze began after the death of I.V. Stalin and in connection with the arrest of L.P. Beria. In August 1954, Kiknadze was released from the leadership of the highway. The accusations are almost ridiculous: over the years, got used to the shortcomings and “adored the fawning.” He was transferred to the Ministry of Transport and Construction as Deputy Head of the Main Transport Directorate. He took an active part in the construction of new railways in the areas of development of virgin and fallow lands, the second routes of the Akmolinsk-Kartaly line. He made a great contribution to the implementation of diesel traction on new buildings, participated in the opening of the Taishet-Lena line and the preparation of the construction of the Abakan-Taishet line.

In 1970, reaching 73 years old, retired. He died on March 24, 1978 after a severe and prolonged illness. He was buried in Tbilisi in the Saburtalo pantheon of state and public figures of the Georgian SSR .

He was awarded three orders of Lenin (04/04/1936, 11/05/1943, 07/08/1951), orders of Kutuzov 1st degree (07/29/1945), the Red Banner of Labor (11/23/1939), two orders of the Red Star (07/21/1942, 03/12. 1944), medals.

Grigory Semenovich Kiknadze (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is August 23, 2014.

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