Morozov, Vasily Mikhailovich (Hero of Socialist Labor)

He was born on February 28, 1910 in the village of Malchev Region, the Don Army (now the Millerovsky District of the Rostov Region ), where he graduated from a seven-year school. With 11 years he worked ^[1] .

In 1928-1931 he studied at the metallurgical department of the Taganrog Industrial College . He graduated from the last course at the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1932, where he received the specialty of a “domain engineer” ^[1] .

After graduation, he was sent to the Metallurgical Combine named after A. K. Serov , where at first he worked as an assistant foreman, foreman, shift supervisor for the blast furnace shop in 1932-1934 ^[1] .

In 1934-1936 he served in the Red Army in the Far East . After demobilization, he returned to the factory, where in 1936-1938 he worked as the shift supervisor of the blast furnace shop, in 1938-1941 he was the assistant to the chief of the charge shop, in 1941-1945 he was the deputy head of the blast furnace shop, in 1945-1973 he was the head of the blast furnace shop . KIPO (utilization factor) of the blast furnace was the best in the USSR in 1949 (equal to 0.56). Nineteen times, the plant’s domain workers were winners in the All-Union Socialist Competition, and the blast furnace shop itself was recognized as the best in the country. In 1973-1975 he became a research engineer in the domain group of the central factory laboratory. In 1975 he retired, and since 1984 - a personal pensioner of national importance ^[1] .

Vasily Mikhailovich was a member of the CPSU , City Council deputy, lecturer, speaker, delegate to the 9th Congress of Trade Unions of the Metallurgical Industry, delegate to the 14th Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR ^[1] .

Vasily Mikhailovich died on March 10, 1988 ^[1] .

In 2013, at the Serov Metallurgical Plant , the Board was opened to the heroes of Socialist Labor, including with the name of V. M. Morozov ^[2] .

Vasily Mikhailovich developed and mastered a new method for blast furnace smelting: used alkali-containing carbonate manganese ores of the Polunochny deposit, developed and implemented the transfer of the blast furnace to a mode of operation with increasing gas pressure at the top; changed the blast furnace loading system, increasing the efficiency of charcoal smelting with natural gas injection; changed the mode of operation of air heaters; developed a nozzle of a new design for supplying natural gas to a blast furnace; changed the profile of the blast furnace and more ^[3] .

For his achievements he was awarded ^[1] :

• badge "Excellence in competition of ferrous metallurgy of the USSR"
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1946, 1952);
• “ Stalin Prize of the II degree ” “for the development and industrial introduction of new methods of forced blast furnace smelting” (1950);
• medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970);
• the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the Gold Medal Hammer and Sickle and the Order of Lenin “for outstanding achievements in the development of ferrous metallurgy” (07.19.1958);
• Order of the October Revolution (1971);
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1966);
• title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Serov” (1980) “for special merits in the development of metallurgical production, great public work”.