Tarasov, Diodor Mikhailovich

Diodorus (a rare Orthodox name) was born on January 15, 1911 in the city of Shadrinsk in the Chelyabinsk Region. in the family of an employee Tarasov Mikhail Vasilievich. Parents of poor peasants from the village of Peski, Shadrinsky district, Chelyabinsk region.

In Shadrinsk graduated from school 2 levels. From 09/09/1929 he worked as a teacher at the 1st level school, then the school of peasant youth in the village. Spitsino Kurgan Region In the fall of 1932 he entered the Sverdlovsk State University (SSU) named after M. Gorky. He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of SSU with honors on July 5, 1937.

From 09.09.1937 to 11.31.37, a graduate student at the Department of Physics of the Ural Medical Institute. On December 1, 1937, he was accepted into the laboratory of phase transformations of the Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Academy of Sciences (UFAN), now URAN, as a junior research fellow. From April 1, 1938, he was approved as a graduate student in the specialty "X-ray Physics and X-ray Analysis". He graduated from graduate school on 04/01/1941. Scientific adviser - Anton Panteleimonovich Komar (3.01.1904 - 03/14/1985) - Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

From September 1941 to July 1945 he served in the 48th training and infantry division as an assistant regiment commander. Accompanying military echelons to the front with replenishment, he was under bombing and shelling. In 1944, she was awarded the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. After the victory, he continued his scientific career at the UFAN as a senior researcher.

Since November 1946, Diodor Mikhailovich began working in KB-11 (now FSUE RFNC-VNIIEF). as a senior researcher in the laboratory of the famous experimental physicist V. A. Zuckerman, a hero of Socialist Labor. In 1952 he became the head of an independent laboratory. He was engaged in pulsed radiography of various structures and materials in relation to nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. To the song of a successful test of the charge for the first Soviet atomic bomb, he received the Stalin Prize of the III degree and the Order of Lenin. In 1953 he became a laureate of the Stalin Prize of the II degree for his participation in the development of the first thermonuclear bomb RDS-6C. In 1956 he received the Order of Lenin for his participation in the creation of a new type of thermonuclear charge RDS-37. In 1962, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor after testing the world's most powerful thermonuclear bomb AN602. In 1962 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1963, he was awarded the title of Lenin Prize laureate for introducing into practice gas-dynamic experiments of iron-free betatrons of the BIM type. Co-author of the invention on the initiation of a widespread type of tactical nuclear charges .. Head of the department of pulsed radiography. Head of explosive x-ray experiments at the sites.

One of the organizers and the first director of the evening department (department number 4) of the Sarov branch of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute .

Specialist in X-ray diffraction of gas-dynamic processes. Doctor of Technical Sciences. Due to health reasons, he retired of Union value on 10.06.1972. He died after a second heart attack on 12/9/1974. He was buried in the city cemetery in Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region.

Wife - Maria Alekseevna Manakova, physicist. Sons: Alexei (born 1937), Valery (1939-2001), Mikhail (Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, born 1948) worked at the VNIIEF.

• 1945 - Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1949 - Stalin Prize ;
• 1949 - Order of Lenin ;
• 1953 - Stalin Prize;
• 1954 - medal "For Labor Distinction";
• 1956 - Order of Lenin;
• 1962 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
• 1963 - Lenin Prize .

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