Granovsky, Semen Abramovich

He was born on January 5 ( January 18 ), 1908 in Alexandria (now Kirovograd Region , Ukraine ) in the family of Abram Froimovich Granovsky (1875-1958) and Estheri (Fira) Abramovna Granovsky (1881-1953) ^[1] . He graduated from the production of technical college with the LMZ named after V. Stalin (1935).

In 1924–1930, he was a fitter at a district station in Dnepropetrovsk , a draftsman at a metallurgical plant in Stalino , a designer at the Leningrad plant Gipromed, a designer at the Marxist plant.

In 1930-1983 he worked at LMZ: brigadier, senior engineer (1935), head of the design department of the water turbine, from 1945 - deputy. Ch. designer, from 1978 - deputy. Head of the hard currency “Gidroturbash”.

Since 1983, retired.

Developed hydro turbines for the Volga, Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ust-Ilim, Zeya, Toktogul, Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power stations, Bhakra-Nangal ( India ), Aswan ( OAR ), Djerdap — Iron Gate ( Yugoslavia and Romania ), Tabka ( Syria ), Kapivara ( Brazil ) and others.

Candidate of Technical Sciences (1955). The author of five inventions.

He died on May 10, 1999 in St. Petersburg .

• his wife, Tsilya Samoylovna Granovskaya (nee Shik; 1909–1979) ^{[2] [3]} .
  • son - Vladimir Semenovich Granovsky (b. 1941), thermal physicist, candidate of technical sciences.

• Design and calculation of hydroturbines. L .: Mechanical Engineering, 1974
• The current state of hydro-turbine construction abroad // Hydro-turbine construction, Moscow: 1955
• The technical level of hydro turbines and the prospects for their development at the LMZ. L .: 1969
• The design of hydro turbines and the calculation of their details. M.-L.: Mashgiz, 1953 (together with V. M. Orgo and L. G. Smolyarov).

• Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946) - for the development of the design and production technology of powerful hydraulic turbines and generators installed at the Sheksninskaya and Uglichskaya HPPs of the Verkh-Volga hydroelectric complex
• Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) - for the development of structures, manufacture and commissioning of new improved hydro turbines with a capacity of 102,000 liters. with. for the Dnieper named after V. I. Lenin
• USSR State Prize (1967) - for the creation of super-power radial-axial turbines of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Plant

• Granovsky Semen Abramovich
• Hydropower Museum
• Leningrad blockade. Arkady Ivanovich Melua. Publishing house "Humanistic", 1999 - Total pages: 671