Streletsky, Peter Stepanovich

Born on April 7, 1905 in a large working-class family of a joiner of railway workshops in the city of Elizavetgrad. He graduated from elementary school and four classes of a commercial school. Since 1919 he worked as a loader in the workshop and apprentice carpenter. Since 1924 - a carpenter, a technician at the Krasnaya Zvezda factory in the city of Zinovievsk (today - Kropyvnytsky).

In 1929 he joined the CPSU (b). In 1930, he graduated from the Zinovievsky Industrial Institute of Agricultural Engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering.

From 1930 to 1933, he was an engineer at the Smychka plant in the city of Chuguev, in the construction trust and People’s Commissariat of Agriculture in Kharkov.

From 1933 to 1937 - Deputy Head of the woodworking shop, head of the bureau of technical preparation of production, head of the carpentry shop of the Hammer and Sickle Kharkov factory.

From 1937-1939 - Director of the Hammer and Sickle Hammer Plant in Kharkov. June 26, 1938 was elected to the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of the 1st convocation (1938-1946) from the Kaganovichi constituency No. 243 of the city of Kharkov.

From 1939 to 1942 - Deputy Director of the Kharkov Aviation Plant . In the fall of 1941, he organized the evacuation of the plant to the cities of Molotov and Kuibyshev.

From April 1942 to September 1943 - Deputy Head of the 15th Main Directorate of the People's Commissariat of the USSR Aviation Industry.

From September 1943 to November 1974 - Director of the Kharkov "State Union Plant No. 157" of the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry of the USSR (later - Kharkov Electrical Equipment Plant). During his leadership, the plant changed its production profile. The plant began to repair aircraft devices and produce electric aircraft devices of the propeller group, which were used in the strategic missile forces. In 1958, the plant produced the first batch of autonomous control equipment for an R-5M medium-range ballistic missile. A gyrostabilizer designed for the Proton rocket was designed. In 1961, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In 1966 he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor "for outstanding services in fulfilling the seven-year plan of 1959-1965 and the creation of new technology . "

In November 1974 he retired. He died on August 20, 1975 in Kharkov.

• Hero of Socialist Labor - by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 26, 1966
• Order of Lenin - twice (06/17/1961; 07/26/1966)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor - twice (01/23/1948; 12/07/1957)
• Order of the October Revolution (04/26/1971)
• Order of the Red Star (09.16.1945)

Streletsky, Peter Stepanovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• From convoys to Proton. The fate of the plant and man
• On the 110th anniversary of the birth of Streletsky Pyotr Stepanovich