Vitaly Alekseevich Gasselblatt ( 1879 - 1932 ) - Russian and Soviet industrialist, mining engineer.
| Gasselblatt Vitaliy Alekseevich | |
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| Date of Birth | March 19 ( April 1 ) 1879 |
| Place of Birth | Tyrlyansk Plant, Orenburg province , Russian empire |
| Date of death | January 4, 1932 (52 years old) |
| Place of death | Chibyu camp, USSR (now the city of Ukhta , Komi Republic ) |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
He stood at the origins of Soviet domestic heavy industry. According to his project and initiative, a number of large enterprises of the domestic industry of the USSR were built: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works , Ural Heavy Engineering Plant , Ural Carriage Building Plant , Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant , Krasnouralsk Metallurgical Plant and Ufa-Nickel Plant .
Biography
He was born on March 19 ( April 1 in a new style) in 1879 at a Tyrlyansk plant of the Verkhneuralsk district of the Orenburg province in a noble family. His father, Axel Emilievich Gasselblatt, a graduate of a technical school, arrived in the Urals in 1874. [one]
In 1898 he graduated from the Ufa men's gymnasium and in 1900 entered the Imperial University of St. Petersburg . In 1902, for revolutionary activity, he was arrested and expelled from the university. In 1903 he was deported to Ufa . Until 1906 he worked in the Urals and abroad. He graduated from the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg . [2]
In 1909-1912, Gasselblat worked as the manager of the Belsky River Shipping Company in Ufa, in 1912-1916 he was the manager of the Satka Plant, where during his work a blast furnace was built on which a world steel smelting record was set. [2] In 1916-1918 he worked as the managing director of the joint stock company Lysvensky mountain district of the heirs of Count P.P. Shuvalov. During these years, the First World War went on , the October Revolution took place and the Civil War began . As a social democrat, Vitaly Gasselblatt positively met the revolution and collaborated with the new government. The management of the district was entrusted to the Council, which appointed Gasselblatt as technical manager. In December 1918, when the Civil War front approached Lysva, the plant’s senior staff was evacuated to Perm . Here Gasselblatt was appointed a member of the technical council of the regional Office of nationalized enterprises of the Urals (Perm). [2]
Since February 1919, he worked in Moscow in the metals department of the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNH) as a senior metallurgical engineer. In July of the same year, he was sent as a consulting engineer to the Urals to the commission of V. Ya. Chubar on the restoration of the Ural industry. In 1919-1922, Vitaliy Alekseevich was a member of the Presidium of the Industrial Bureau of the Supreme Economic Council in the Urals and a member of the Presidium of the Uralsovnarchoz. From 1923 to 1928 he worked in various positions in the reorganization of the Ural industry. In 1924 he was a member of the Presidium of the Ural Planning Commission and the Board of Glavmet in Moscow. [1] In January-August 1925 he was sent abroad to study production at enterprises in Germany , Austria , England and other European countries. In March 1929, Gasselblatt was appointed chief engineer of Magnitostroy. At the beginning of 1930 he was on business trips to the USA and Germany in order to purchase equipment, in October 1930 he returned to the USSR. [2]
At the same time he was engaged in social activities - in 1928-1930 he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR; participated in the 1st (1921) and 2nd (1924) All-Union Congresses of scientists in metallurgy, as well as meetings on the prospects of industrial development in the Urals.
In November 1930 he was arrested and convicted in 1931 by the OGPU board in the case of the Ural Center of Counter-Revolutionary Engineering Organizations. The execution was replaced by 10 years in prison at the Chibyu concentration camp. [2]
He died on January 4, 1932 in the same camp, now the city of Ukhta, "from angina pectoris with the phenomena of a gradual decline in cardiac activity . " [one]
He was fully rehabilitated in 1989.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 “Red Director” Gasselblatt
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Personality in the history of Lysvensky okrug