Pyotr Aleksandrovich Agafonov (born in 1902 in the village of Sands - died in 1955 or in 1957) is a Soviet production innovator, laureate of the Stalin Prize in 1952.
| Peter Alexandrovich Agafonov | |
|---|---|
| Birth | 1902 Simbirsk province |
| Death | 1957 |
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Biography
Since 1917 he worked in a locomotive depot in Chelyabinsk . Since 1927 he was an assistant engineer, then an engineer in Ukraine. In the 30s of the XX century, he introduced a new method of locomotive ring driving and mastered the drive of heavy trains.
After the German attack on the USSR, he initiated the creation of locomotive columns of the People's Commissariat of Railway Transport (1941), which were widely used in front-line communications. In the fall of 1941 he organized and headed the first locomotive convoy in the USSR. State Defense Committee composed of 5, and then 15 locomotives. After 3 years, the column transported more than 2 thousand heavy trains, more than 150 million tons of cargo were transported at a normal rate.
Links
- Konstantin Zalesski: World War II. Big biographical encyclopedia. Moskwa: AST, 2013.
- Agafonov P.A.
- Agafonov
- Memorial plaque Agafonov Peter Alexandrovich
- This is our biography with you , Hooter, issue number 13, 03/30/2007
- Three times honorary. To the 100th anniversary of P.A. Agafonova