Kozhevin, Vladimir Grigorievich

Vladimir Kozhevin was born on July 13, 1907 in the city of Shadrinsk (now the Kurgan region ). In childhood, he moved with his parents to the Yenisei province , lived in the city of Achinsk . Along with studying at school, from July 1921 he worked as a laborer in the local branch of the consumer union.

In 1926 he graduated from high school and entered the First Siberian Polytechnic College named after K. A. Timiryazev in the city of Tomsk at the mining department. As a student at the technical school, he conducted his first exploration batch for exploration of gold deposits in the upper Yenisei. Intelligence was carried out according to the expeditionary plans of the future academician I. Bardin .

Upon graduation in 1930, he was nominated for scientific and pedagogical work in a technical school - he taught special disciplines and was deputy director for academic affairs. While working at the Polytechnic, he continued his studies at the Siberian Mechanical Engineering Institute (now TPU) at the mining faculty, specializing in the exploitation of coal and other reservoir deposits. In 1932, he moved to work as a designer in the project management of the State Union Coal Industry of Eastern Siberia - Vostokugol in the city of Tomsk. He participated in the laying and construction of new mines in the city of Prokopyevsk: the largest at that time in the Soviet Union mine "Koksovaya", mine "Ziminka", No. 5-6, No. 7 and others.

In 1934 he graduated from the institute, worked for four years at the Kemerovo Mining College: he taught special disciplines and was deputy director for academic affairs.

In September 1938, he was appointed to the Severnaya launch pad of the Kemerovo mine, where he worked as deputy chief engineer and chief engineer of the mine. On his initiative, contrary to the decree of the party, the mine refused to use cutting machines, and introduced a method for laying out the worked out space.

With the outbreak of World War II, as part of the military formation formed in Kuzbass, he went to the front, but on the way by order of the People's Commissar for Coal Industry of the USSR V.V. Vakhrushev, he was removed from the train and returned.

In August 1941, together with a group of engineers, he was seconded to the city of Osinniki to the Osinnikiugol trust of the Kuzbassugol combine, where coal of especially valuable grades needed for metallurgy and defense of the country was mined. He worked as the head of the technical department and the deputy chief engineer. In June 1942 he was appointed Chief Engineer and Head of Mine No. 10 of the same trust. The mine from the lagging ranks advanced in the Kuzbass and, starting in 1943, until the end of the war held the banner of the State Defense Committee.

From September 1945 to August 1947 he worked as the manager of the Kiselevskugol Trust in the Kuzbassugol plant in the city of Kiselevsk. Under him, open mining began in Kuzbass.

In 1947, major accidents occurred in the mines of the Kemerovougol plant, and in August V. G. Kozhevin was appointed head of the plant. After examining and weighing the situation, he took all measures to eliminate the shortcomings. The plant included enterprises of the Kemerovo, Leninsk-Kuznetsk, Anzhero-Sudzhensky coal regions. As head of the plant, V. G. Kozhevin addressed issues of updating the mine fund, improving the economic indicators of coal production, primarily through the construction of new mines on inclined and shallow seams in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, as well as the construction of Promyshlennovskaya mines in Kemerovo, Berezovskaya ”And“ Pervomaiskaya ”in Berezovsky, the development of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk and Bepovsky coal mining regions. All projects of mines under construction and commissioning were discussed with the involvement of major scientists, and only after such a detailed analysis did he sign the project.

He, as the head of the plant, was the first to raise the question of open coal mining before the Ministry of Coal Industry of the eastern regions of the USSR. He received timely support from the party leadership of the region, and the construction of sections began.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 28, 1948, for outstanding achievements in increasing coal production, restoration and construction of coal mines and the introduction of advanced working methods that ensure a significant increase in labor productivity, Vladimir Kozhevin was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Sickle and Hammer medals.

From January to April 1953, V. G. Kozhevin served as Deputy Minister of Coal Industry of the USSR and a member of the Board of the Ministry of Coal Industry. He moved to Moscow for a short while. In 1953, by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Minister of Coal Industry of the USSR, the unified management body for the coal industry, the Kuzbassugol plant in Kemerovo, was reinstated on the territory of the Kuznetsk Basin. The head of the plant was appointed V.G. Kozhevin.

Determining the prospects of the pool, he aimed the plant apparatus on the priority development of open works. Under his leadership, with his active participation, technical re-equipment of the industry is underway, new mines are being built, mechanization and automation are being introduced, the complex problems of finding effective methods of coal mining, scientific and technological progress in the industry are being successfully solved.

In June 1957 he was appointed first deputy chairman of the Kemerovo Economic Council. Under V.G. Kozhevin, an efficient Sovnarkhoz apparatus was formed from professionally trained people, the basic industries were successfully developed, a powerful construction complex was created, and social issues were effectively resolved.

Working for a long time in the Kuznetsk coal basin, mining engineer V.G. Kozhevin was not only a leading specialist in the search and development of methods for developing Kuzbass deposits, but also an employee who devotes a lot of time to researching the very urgent tasks of the coal industry. Under his leadership and with active participation, technical re-equipment of the coal industry is underway, new mines and opencast mines are being built, mechanization and automation are being introduced, the complex problems of finding effective methods of coal mining, scientific and technological progress in the industry are being successfully solved.

Vladimir Grigoryevich combined the hard work in critical posts with scientific research. In 1961, V. G. Kozhevin graduated from graduate school at the Institute of Mining of the USSR Academy of Sciences and on April 27, 1961 he successfully defended his dissertation. The Higher Attestation Commission awarded him the degree of candidate of technical sciences. Completely switched to scientific work.

In December 1961, he began working as an assistant professor at the Department of Mineral Deposits of the Kemerovo Mining Institute, and since 1963 he was elected head of the department.

July 3, 1967 he was appointed rector of the Kuzbass Polytechnic Institute , while remaining the head of the department "Construction of underground structures and mines." Under the leadership of the rector VG Kozhevin, the material and technical base of the institute was strengthened. His ten-year tenure as rector is a period of rapid development of the institute. Then three new educational buildings, three dormitories were built. The number of specialties was increased, the enrollment of students in the first year increased. KuzPI has firmly taken a leading position, has become a leading technical university, a large educational and scientific center of Kuzbass. V. G. Kozhevina became the first chairman of the created council of rectors of universities of the Kemerovo region .

He headed the institute until March 2, 1977, on relieving the rector of his duties at his personal request. He continued to work at the institute, until 1985 he remained the head of the department of construction of underground structures and mines

He published more than 160 works on the results of ongoing research and on the development of the coal industry, including two monographs, three textbooks

He paid much attention to socio-political activities, was repeatedly elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the Kemerovo regional and city councils of deputies of workers, a member of the Kemerovo regional committee of the CPSU , a delegate to the XX and XXIV congresses of the CPSU . For almost 16 years, he headed the Kemerovo Regional Board of the Knowledge Society .

He lived in the city of Kemerovo.

Vladimir Grigorievich Kozhevin died on April 22, 1990 .

• Hero of Socialist Labor , August 28, 1948
  • Sickle and Hammer Medal
  • The order of Lenin
• The order of Lenin
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor
• Medal "For Labor Valor"
• Anniversary medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• The Miner Glory badge of three degrees.
• Badge of Honorary Member of the Society "Knowledge" of the USSR
• Gratitude and diploma of the Ministry of Higher and Special Education of the RSFSR for many years of fruitful scientific and pedagogical activity and in connection with the 70th anniversary, May 1977
• Certificate of the All-Union Society “Knowledge” with entry in the Book of Honor of the Societies “Knowledge” of the RSFSR and the USSR
• Medal named after S. I. Vavilov ( society "Knowledge" )
• Diploma of the society "Knowledge" of the RSFSR

• Father - Grigory Maksimovich, teacher
• Mother - Muza Ivanovna, graduated with honors from high school and institute, worked at school.
• Wife - Varvara Ignatyevna Nemchaninova
  • two daughters Nina and Olga, son Vladimir

• In June 2009, at the 46th meeting of the Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies, it was decided to assign one of the streets located in the residential area of ​​Lesnaya Polyana, named after Professor Kozhevin ^[1] .

• Wegner A. A. Contribution of V. G. Kozhevin to the development of Kuzbass. Historical research in Siberia: problems
• Coal Magazine. 2007. No 7

Vladimir Grigorievich Kozhevin (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment September 4, 2014.