Grishin, Peter I.

Born September 23, 1914 in the county town of Kovrov, Vladimir province, in a working-class family. At the age of three he was left without a father who died in the revolutionary events of 1917. He was educated by his uncle in the city of Podolsk . After graduating from the seven years in 1929, returned home Kovrov, to his mother. Entered in Kovrovsky College of Communications. During practice, he worked for three months as a locomotive engineer on a narrow-gauge railway on the construction of the Novosibirsk - Leninsk railway ^{[ clarify ]} .

Upon graduation in June 1932, he came to work at the Kovrov Excavator Plant . He worked as a technician of a technical department, a technician of a preproduction department, a master of steel-smelting shop. Since 1934 - in the liberated Komsomol work (deputy secretary of the Komsomol organization of the plant). A young promising worker, who had already become a master, was assigned to study at the institute according to the order of the People's Commissariat. In 1940 he graduated from the electrotechnical department of the Ivanovo Energy Institute and returned to his plant. By June 1941, he was already a senior electrical engineer.

Member of the Great Patriotic War . He fought as part of the 8th Army , defending Leningrad . Then he went with battles to Vienna , liberated Bulgaria , Romania , Yugoslavia , Austria . Demobilized in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant .

Returning to his hometown, he came to work at his native Kovrov excavator plant. First, the foreman, then the production manager, chief engineer. In 1954-1959 he was the director of the plant. In 1959–1961 - head of the machine-building and metal-working industry department of the Vladimir Economic Council .

Since 1961 - Director of the Vladimir Tractor Plant . For a short time brought the plant from the laggards to the advanced. A year later, the first cotton tractor for Uzbekistan rolled off the main conveyor. Air-cooled engines went to the Lipetsk and Kharkov tractor plants , other enterprises of the country. In 1966, at the International Exhibition in Moscow “Modern Agricultural Machines and Equipment” a gold medal was awarded to the plant for the T-28HZ tractor.

Under his leadership, for the first time in the USSR, the Volzhsky Pipe Plant mastered the serial production of four-cylinder air-cooled D37M engines for the Lipetsk and Tashkent tractor plants . In 1970, a T-25 tractor with high performance was put on the conveyor. Since then, the renewal of production facilities occurs almost every year. Specialists of the plant have developed designs of a family of air cooled diesel engines.

VTZ has become one of the world's largest manufacturers of air-cooled diesel engines. They are installed on tractors manufactured by Lipetsk and Tashkent factories, on self-propelled chassis XZTSSh and a number of other machines. For labor success in the implementation of production tasks in 1966, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , and in 1976 - the Order of the October Revolution . Tractor "Vladimirets" by the time mastered the markets of 60 countries, including Poland , Yugoslavia, USA , Canada , Italy , Spain , Sri Lanka and others.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 16, 1976, Grishin Pyotr Ivanovich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Serp & Molot gold medal.

May 30, 1977 two millionth engine came off the assembly line. In 1977, a group of specialists of the company, including the director, was awarded the USSR State Prize in science and technology for the creation of the design and the organization of mass production of air-cooled diesel engines. The State Committee for Science and Technology of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Ministry of Tractor and Agricultural Engineering awarded the T-25A tractor its first prize and recognized it as the best machine in 1977. P. I. Grishin managed the enterprise until 1978.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 8-9th convocations. Winner of the USSR State Prize.

He lived in the city of Vladimir. He died on February 1, 1985. He was buried at Ulybyshevskoye cemetery in Vladimir.

He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Red Star , the Badge of Honor, and medals.

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• Peter Ivanovich Grishin (rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is August 28, 2014.