Vasily Alekseevich Sakharnov ( January 8, 1914 , Nizhny Novgorod - 2012 [1] ) - Soviet designer of welding machines, laureate of the 1966 Lenin Prize .
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| Date of Birth | January 8, 1914 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Nizhny Novgorod | ||||||||
| Date of death | 2012 | ||||||||
| Occupation | welding machine designer | ||||||||
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Biography
He graduated from the shipbuilding department of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute.
He worked in the design bureau of the Krasnoe Sormovo plant, which produced engines for submarines, and during the war - for armored vehicles.
In 1951 he moved to the IES. E.O. Patona, where he headed the design department for over 40 years. He retired in 2010, at the age of 96.
With his participation, a prototype of a machine for flash butt welding of railway rails in the field K134 (1957) was developed.
For the KZ55 model, together with technologists V.K. Lebedev, S.I. Kuchuk-Yatsenko and S.A. Solodovnikov, he was awarded the Lenin Prize. On the basis of K355 in the Soviet Union, a whole generation of suspended rail welding machines was created.
In the late 1960s. participated in the creation of machines for welding large-diameter pipes, crankcase blocks of powerful diesel engines, complex aluminum profiles of large cross-sections for aircraft.
For the creation of equipment for flash butt welding, he was awarded the VDNH gold, silver and bronze medals.
The author of more than 300 copyright certificates for inventions and 200 patents. Honored Inventor of the USSR (1974), Honored Machine Builder of Ukraine (2009), laureate of State Prizes of the USSR (1986) and USSR (1973).