Kuzma Kurakin ( 1904 -?) - Soviet specialist in the field of radar, the organizer of production.
| Kuzma Lavrentyevich Kurakin | |||
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| Date of Birth | November 1, 1904 | ||
| Date of death | unknown | ||
| A country |  the USSR | ||
| Scientific field | radar | ||
| Alma mater | LETI | ||
| Awards and prizes |
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Biography
Born November 1, 1904 in the territory of today's Rostov region.
From the age of 16 he worked for hire. In 1926 - 1931 he served in the Navy . Since 1931, engineer, assistant director for scientific work, director of the Institute IRPA.
He graduated from LETI (1941). During the war, the foreman, deputy. director of the plant in Omsk , director of the plant in Krasnoyarsk (03/29/1943 - 9/19/1944).
In 1944–1950, director of the SRI-20 MRP, Moscow (All-Russian Research Institute of Radio Engineering, VNIIRT).
Since 1950 - Deputy Minister of Communications Industry, Radio Engineering Industry, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, Chairman of the State Committee for Electric Power Industry, Minister of Electronic Industry of the USSR.
He died in Moscow not earlier than 1996.
Awards and prizes
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) - for the development in the field of military equipment (radar "Observatory")
- Order of the Badge of Honor (1944)
- two medals
Sources
- Biographical information
- Smirnov S. A., Zubkov V. I. Brief essays on the history of VNIIRT. 1996