Oplanchuk, Vladimir Yakovlevich

Born February 13, 1919 in the city of Vladivostok in a working class family. He began his career in 1934, a fifteen year old teenager. He was a student locksmith at the depot Kangauz Ussuriyskoy railway. At the end of June 1941, he graduated from the Tomsk Industrial Institute named after S. M. Kirov (now TPU) and received an engineering degree. In July 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Tomsk City Military Commissariat. From February 1942 he fought in the engineering units on the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts. He became an officer in 1943 joined the VKP / CPSU. In 1946 he was transferred to the reserve in the rank of major.

Participated in the restoration of the Donbass, the construction of enterprises of the Kuzbass. For several years he worked at the Soviet-German joint-stock company "Wismut" in Germany . Then “Bismuth” was the only enterprise providing the country with uranium ore.

In 1956 he returned to the USSR, worked for about a year in the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, but he did not like cabinet work. He addressed a request for a new appointment to Minister E. P. Slavsky.

Soon he received an order to head the Mine Administration No. 2 of Combine No. 6 of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building in Tajikistan, where uranium and fluorite were mined. He stayed on this post for five years, and during this period labor productivity at the enterprise increased by 70%.

In 1960, he was appointed director of the entire plant, which in 1967 was named the Leninabad Mining and Chemical Combine. In this position, he proved himself to be a skillful and energetic leader of a team of many thousands, a knowledgeable specialist, and a bold innovator.

The activities of the plant covered several areas, and the development of the main ones - mining and chemical. For ten years, labor productivity at the plant has increased by 1.7 times, and this is with increasing complexity and volume of work performed. One of the important tasks was mining and construction work at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. The complex tasks of creating literally from scratch in a short time a powerful production base were successfully solved largely thanks to the contribution of a talented engineer and organizer V. Ya. Oplanchuk.

In 1963, the plant was transferred to a ply plant, which in a short period of time from a loss-making enterprise turned into a highly profitable. Its products fully met the needs of Minsredmash, a significant part of it was supplied to other sectors of the national economy. For the first time in world practice, the plant implemented antidust and antiradon production methods, which were then successfully used in many enterprises of the Soviet Union and the countries of the socialist camp. For the first time in the domestic hydrometallurgy, technological schemes for the continuous sorption of metal from solutions were introduced, an extraction scheme was carried out to bring the products to a high degree of purity.

Since 1967, the plant has successfully implemented a fundamentally new method of extracting metal from the Earth’s interior using the in-situ leaching method. This solution allowed to radically change the technology of metal production, to eliminate heavy mining work underground, to increase production efficiency by 2-2.5 times. For this work in the composition of the creative team was awarded the State Prize.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 10, 1970, for the outstanding achievements in performing a special task of the Government of the USSR, Oplanchuk Vladimir Yakovlevich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.

He was elected a delegate to the CPSU congresses, for many years he was a deputy to the Supreme Soviets of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Parties of these republics.

He lived and worked in the city of Chkalovsk, Sughd region of the Republic of Tajikistan. He died on August 19, 1991. He was buried in the cemetery of the city of Chkalovsk.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin , the October Revolution , the Red Banner of Labor , "Badge of Honor", World War 1 st and 2 nd (11/18/1943, two orders of the Red Star and medals.

In the city of Chkalovsk, a bust was installed in front of the plant’s administration building. The street in Chkalovsk is named after him.

For special merits in the construction and development of the city of Chkalovsk, V. Ya. Oplanchik in 2005 was awarded the post of the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Chkalovsk.”

• Heroes of the atomic project. Sarov, 2005
• Documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Yakovlevich Oplanchuk (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is September 4, 2014.