Nechaev, Victor Fedorovich

Born on June 28, 1937 in the village of Filistovo in the Khvoininsky District (now Novgorod Region ) in a peasant family, was the sixth, youngest child in the family. Mother - Evdokia Matveevna Nechaeva (Matveeva) (03/14/1897-30.10.1969), father Fedor Petrovich Nechaev (05/26/1899 - 01/14/1938). Sister Maria (1921–1942) died in the siege of Leningrad , brother Vasily (1927–2002) participated in the Second World War from 1943 to 1945, brother Mikhail (1928–1979) lived and worked in the countryside of the Novgorod Region, and the sisters Anna and Alexander died in their infancy.

Wife - Nechaeva (Sokolova) Irina Ivanovna (b. 1939), two sons Andrei (b. 1960) and Vitaly (b. 1969), grandchildren: Elena Andreevna (b. 1984), Nikita Vitalievich (Born in 1994), Martin and Thomas Vitalievich (both born in 2004), great-grandchildren Elizabeth (born in 2013) and Artemy (born in 2016) (children of Elena Andreevna).

The surname Nechaev was chosen by the father of Victor Nechaev - Fedor Petrovich (Fedor Petrov - as he was called before his last name, from the abbreviation "Fedor Petrov son") when registering in St. Petersburg (Petrograd), where he came to work as a scrap driver. Previously, Russian peasants did not have surnames and chose them when they received a passport, when moving to a city, or for other reasons. In the period of universal certification by 1930, everyone was given surnames ^[2] . There was no system or instruction when choosing a surname. So the elder brother of his father - Vasily Petrovich born in 1888 (old - Vasily Petrov) took the surname after the patronymic of his father - Pyotr Vasilyevich (old - Pyotr Vasilyev) before the revolution of 1917 and became Vasily Petrovich Vasilyev. The younger brother of his father - Ivan Petrovich, born in 1902 (as before, Ivan Petrov) chose the surname “from his own patronymic” during the Soviet passportization, and became Petrov. And Fedor Petrovich himself chose the last name of his friend, with whom he went to work and was arrested during the period of collectivization - Nechaev, and “to be the namesake of a famous revolutionary ^[3] ” (according to relatives). So in one peasant family, the siblings had different surnames - Vasiliev, Nechaev and Petrov.

At the age of 7, his mother arranged for Viktor Nechaev to work on a collective farm (assistant shepherd), for which he received daily food “a glass of milk and a slice of bread”. In the difficult post-war years, the collective farm was involved in agricultural work.

In 1952 he graduated from the 7th grade of a secondary school in the village of Migoloshchi and left to study at the Kirov Mining and Chemical College ( Kirovsk , Murmansk Region ). In the same year, Viktor Nechaev joined the Komsomol - the Komsomol . College graduated in 1955 with a degree in geological drilling .

At the end of the technical school, from September 1956 to October 1960, he worked as a drilling foreman in various geological exploration structures: in the Kuibyshev (Samara) region, in Western Ukraine ( Lviv and Stanislavskaya (now Ivano-Frankivsk) regions), in Northern Kazakhstan and Perm region subordinated to the North-West Exploration Trust (Leningrad). In April 1960, after an accident at the drilling site, he worked as an electrician of the 4th category at the heat -measuring laboratory of the CHPP- 10 of the Bereznikovsky Potash Plant ( Berezniki , Perm Region ).

From October 1960 to August 1963, he served in the Belorussian and Ural military districts as an operator, later as head, of a gun-guided radar station. Dismissed to the reserve with the rank of foreman . He graduated from the service as head of the secret office of the regiment and secretary of the Komsomol organization .

After the army, he worked at the Berezniki Potash Plant (transformed in 1964 into the Uralkali Production Association (PO)) ^[4] as a gezenko sinking machine driver, foreman, deputy and head of a mining site, deputy chief engineer of the mine (as a part of ore management No 1) , Head of the Production and Technical Department of Mining Administration No. 1 (as part of Uralkali Production Association), Deputy Chief Engineer of Uralkali Production Association ^[5] .

In 1964, Viktor Nechaev was elected for 1 year as the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the plant and for 4 years (1969-1974) as the chairman of the trade union organization of the plant. ^[five]

In 1969 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Leningrad Mining Institute , faculty "Development of ore and non-metallic deposits" with a degree in "Integrated mechanization of mining", the profession "Mining Engineer". From September 1969 to June 1974 he taught part-time geological disciplines ( General Geology , Historical Geology , Mineral Deposits ) at the Berezniki branch of the Perm Polytechnic Institute . ^[five]

In 1972 he graduated from the University of Marxism-Leninism with a degree in Organization of Planning and Management of Socialist Production.

In 1975, he graduated from continuing education courses at the Academy of National Economy , majoring in Economics and National Economy Management, with an internship at the Belaruskaliy Production Association. ^[five]

From April to June 1976 he worked as Deputy Chief Engineer at Uralkali . In July 1976, the All-Union Potash Industry Association - VO Soyuzkali (the Moscow Central Directorate under the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry and later the USSR Ministry of Mineral Fertilizers ) instructed Nechaev to organize the work of the new enterprise Bereznikovskoye mine-building department with Moscow subordination (Order of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry No. 431 dated July 2, 1976) ^[5] . In June 1976, Viktor Fedorovich became the first chief of the BSU . ^{[6] [7]}

BSHSU worked as a self-sustaining (contracting) state-owned enterprise in all 7 mines of the Verkhnekamsk potassium-magnesium salts deposit , was engaged in the construction and installation of ground and underground potash production facilities, installation of conveyor systems, civil construction of residential and social facilities. The number of employees is up to 1.5 thousand people.

In 1976 and 1980, Nechaev twice (for 4 years each time) was elected People's Deputy of the Berezniki City Council. He was chairman of the Committee for Nature Conservation. ^[five]

In 1983, the Solikamsk Potash Plant ( Solikamsk ) was allocated from the Uralkali Production Association (Berezniki), which has 3 ore departments, and was renamed to Silvinit Production Association ^[4] . By the end of 1984, Silvinit Production Association faced a difficult economic situation: the annual plan for the production of mineral fertilizers was only 52% completed, staff turnover was 17% (22.6% at the Mine Administration No. 3 under construction), and the staff deficit was 750 people with a total 8636 (individual units are staffed only by 40%), low qualification of personnel and lack of experience, high breakdown rate of equipment, design errors and miscalculations, undeveloped social sphere, poor housing situation, and, as a result, low labor discipline lina. VO Soyuzkaliy and the chemistry department of the Regional Committee of the CPSU insist on the transfer of Nechaev to Silvinit for the position of General Director. ^[eight]

Since 1985, Nechaev, in a team of like-minded people, has been identifying the causes of low labor productivity and accident rate, creating the conditions for attracting labor and advanced training of workers. In April 1986, all 3 mining departments of Silvinit software for the first time completed their monthly plan. In 1988, foreign experts were involved in the construction of a granulation workshop and the construction of social and cultural facilities, transshipment bases of finished products were organized in the city of Khabarovsk and Vostochny port for the export of mineral fertilizers, and a record was set for the performance of mineral fertilizers by the end of the year.

In 1988, the company exported potash fertilizers through the Latvian “millionaire collective farm” “Adazhi” (deputy director Grigory Luchansky , a future well-known Russian businessman and philanthropist). The agricultural enterprise "Adazhi", on the recommendation of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU M.S. Gorbachev, was entitled to direct foreign economic contracts. Nechaev supplies potash products through the port of Mariupol, bypassing all international quotas. For violation of quotas in 1989, he was invited to an international meeting of manufacturers and exporters of potash fertilizers in the GDR , where, thanks to a firm position, producers from the USSR were allocated an export quota of 1.15 million tons ^{[8] [9] [10]} As the media wrote: "... after that they should have met Viktor Fedorovich at the airport with flowers, but two months later he was removed from work and put on trial “for non-socialist methods of management.” ^[11]

During this period, leaders of a new type prove themselves: Arnold Sternberg (previously worked as deputy chief of the BSUU for general issues) - Commercial Director of Silvinit Production Association (later known Russian businessman, champion of Russia in Dragon class yachts in 2003 and absolute champion - hunter of Moscow in 2015) ^{[12] [13] [14]} ; Gennady Tushnobolov - Deputy Director for Production of Silvinit Production Association (later Director of the 3rd Mine Administration of Silvinit Production Association, Head of the Administration of Solikamsk, People's Deputy of the RSFSR, Vice President of NK Lukoil, Chairman of the Government of the Perm Territory since 2015) ^{[15 ]} ; Peter Kondrashev - from 1984 to 1990 he went from the head of the mine of the Mining Administration No. 2 to the chief engineer of the Association (later General Director of Software and OJSC Silvinit, a major shareholder of OJSC Silvinit, a well-known entrepreneur and author of industrial inventions) and others.

Nechayev Viktor Fedorovich in 1989 attended a 4-month course at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade with an internship in the Lakhta branch of the University of Helsinki (Finland) ^[8] .

Over the 5 years of Nechayev’s leadership, Silvinit PA continues to develop the field, reconstructs production, changes the management system, builds a new 3rd ore management site, renews the river port and transport, railway lines and rolling stock, completes the construction of the clinic, hospital and museum of the enterprise ^{[ 16]} , the sports palace, sports base and office building, in the city of Solikamsk, the first residential quarters were built in the Klestovka microdistrict, preschool institutions, the summer recreation camp was reconstructed L-dispensary, the building of the Palace of Culture of potash workers was erected in the city center. The number of employees increased by 30% and exceeded 11,000 people. Volumes under export contracts are growing. The first imported “consumer goods” and clothing for the so-called “barter deals” appeared in the Urals. The Solikamsk Mining and Chemical College was revived. For miners with a secondary technical education (technical school), accelerated higher education courses are opened on the basis of a branch of the Perm Polytechnic Institute. The miners of the Kizelovsky mountain basin were employed (in the 1980s, coal mining was stopped in the cities of Kizel and Gremyachinsk, Perm Region). Fruitfully cooperates with the branch institute VNII “ Galurgia ”, Perm ^[17] . With the involvement of the engineering company SMELT (Slovenia), a modern maternity hospital with a gynecological department was built in Solikamsk, construction of a nursing home with a clinic began ^[8] .

On February 8, 1988, the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU , the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions “On the Procedure for the Election of Councils of Labor Collectives and the Election of the Heads of Enterprises” is issued. 12/19/1989 The Council of the labor collective of PA Silvinit adopted a decision “On the election of the General Director of PO Silvinit”. The experience of V.F. Nechaev’s participation in the elections was unsuccessful; Peter Kondrashev, former First Deputy Nechaev V.F., was elected Director General of PO Silvinit on March 30, 1990

In December 1989, the Regional Prosecutor's Office against Nechaev V.F. and several of his colleagues opened a criminal case “On non-socialist methods of managing”, the case was dismissed in May 1990 “due to the lack of corpus delicti” ^{[8] [9]} .

In June 1990, the chairman of the Perm Oblast Executive Committee, Viktor Alexandrovich Petrov , with the support of Viktor Georgievich Kinev, Plenipotentiary of the Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations in the Perm Region ^[18] , instructed Nechaev to create and head a department of foreign economic activity (OVED). During the collapse of the Soviet supply system, the OECA created the conditions for establishing economic relations for the supply of industrial products, food, and “consumer goods” to the Perm Region. At that time, there were few specialists in Russia who had practical skills in foreign economic relations, so the experience of Nechaev, who managed foreign trade in Silvinit , came in handy here. The new chairman of the Perm Oblast Executive Committee, Bystryantsev (since December 1990), extended the contract with Nechaev for another year. Its direct head was the deputy chairman of the regional executive committee for economics, Professor Sapiro , who had fundamental economic training ^{[19] [20]} .

In 1991, Nechaev Viktor Fedorovich was the initiator and actively participated in the creation of the Perm Chamber of Commerce and Industry ^[8] .

In June 1992, V.F. Nechaev left the service for health reasons.

Since December 1992 V.F. Nechaev has been engaged in entrepreneurial activities as the General Director of Petronord LLC (Perm), a member of the international Nordex group of companies (General Director G. E. Luchansky , Commercial Director A. D. Sternberg ), collaborates with Silvinit OJSC, with other Russian enterprises, is the third largest dealer of Silvinit (among 30) in sales of technical salt and mineral fertilizers, and works with 7 regional Autodors of the country . ^[eight]

By 2003, moving away from vigorous activity. He writes documentary books about the enterprises he worked for: Uralkali , BShSU and Silvinit . The first book, “Building is living” (2006) was co-authored with Saburov Stanislav Vladimirovich and Departure Igor Borisovich , respectively, the second and third leaders of the BSU ^[7] . The last 4 books about potash enterprises in the Urals are written personally: “Silvinit looks forward. Notes by the Director General ”(2006) ^[8] ,“ Pioneers of the bowels. Memoirs of the first head of the Bereznikovsky mine-building department ”(2007) ^[5] ,“ History of the Ural potassium ”Books I and II (2008 and 2009) ^{[21] [22]} .

In February 2008 he moved to the city of Yekaterinburg.

December 2, 2009 he died at home in the city of Yekaterinburg.

On December 5, 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Viktor Fedorovich Nechaev’s last trip was escorted by potash veterans and friends who traveled more than 500 km from Solikamsk and Bereznikov to attend the funeral.

Nechayev Viktor Fedorovich was buried in the Forest cemetery of the city of Yekaterinburg (section 178).

The main state awards were received by V. F. Nechaev for his work at the Uralkali Production Association and the BShU. During the joint privatization of Uralkali and the BSU, Nechaev V.F. became the owner of 12 shares of the enterprise in the category of “senior citizen”.

During his time at Silvinit, he was awarded the Veteran of Labor medal when he reached retirement age in 1987. Silvinita OJSC never owned shares. Many of his initiatives in the social sphere were suspended: accelerated higher education courses were closed, the construction of a hospital complex with a nursing home was not completed, the hospital was transferred to the balance of the city of Solikamsk, the building of the Potash Culture Palace is unfinished.

Today the status of the enterprises led by Nechaev has changed : BSHSU was privatized in 1992 as part of the Uralkali OJSC as a construction and assembly trust ^{[4] [7]} , and in 2011 Silvinit OJSC again became a part of Uralkali OJSC in merger process. ^[1] .

Viktor Fedorovich Nechaev in his last years of life said: “I am glad that new houses, streets and districts are being built - life goes on, and I took part in many ways, which means I have something to do with what is happening, it means that my life was not in vain!”

The Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1980) and the Order of the Badge of Honor , (1974), the medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin" (1970), the medal "Veteran of Labor" (1987), the badge "Miner's Glory " II and III degree (1985 and 1982).

• Departures I. B., Nechaev V. F., Saburov S. V. To build is to live. BSHSU 30 years. - Berezniki: OOO SMT "BSHSU", 2006. - 51 p.
• Nechaev V. F. "Silvinit" looks forward. Notes by the Director General. - Solikamsk: Printing house, 2006 .-- 159 p.
• Nechaev V.F. Memoirs of the first head of the Bereznikovsky mine construction department. - Solikamsk: Printing house, 2007 .-- 147 p.
• Nechaev V.F. History of Ural Potassium. - Solikamsk: Printing house, 2008. - Book. 1: Solikamsk potash enterprises. - 190 p.
• Nechaev V.F. History of Ural Potassium. - Solikamsk: Printing house, 2009. - Book. 2: Berezniki potash enterprises. - 176 p.