Komzin, Ivan Vasilyevich

Born into a peasant family, he graduated from three classes of a parochial school . After the October Revolution , he and his parents moved to the village near Pererva ^[2] . Entered the Komsomol ^[3] , was engaged in teaching illiterate, anti-religious propaganda ^[4] , participated in the expropriation of bread from the kulaks, led the work on the protection of farm laborers and their involvement in the Komsomol ^{[2] [5]} . In the direction of the county committee of the Komsomol came to the construction of the dam , which was not far from the village ^[2] . From September 1922 he studied at the Moscow Construction Technical School, which he graduated in December 1926, after which he was sent to electrify the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow Railway ^[6] , where he worked as a construction technician and foreman, took part in the construction of station buildings ^[7] .

Since 1925 member of the CPSU (b) ^{[4] [7]} .

From December 1927 about December 1928 he served in the Red Army , studied at the flight technical school in Rostov-on-Don . After being transferred to the reserve, he worked as a foreman at the Mosstroy trust (February-December 1929) ^[7] . In absentia ^[8] he studied at the Moscow Higher Engineering and Construction School , which he graduated in 1930 ^[7] .

He married, went with his wife and son to the Urals ^[4] , where from March 1930 he worked on the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine as a senior engineer, head of a special group, head of the construction and installation of blast furnaces ^[7] . During his work, he met many other well-known participants in the construction of Magnitka: the artist Nikolai Avvakumov , in his cycle of portraits of the builders of Magnitka, who captured Ivan Vasilyevich; future excavator Mikhail Evts , with whom they will later work together on the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station ^[9] ; Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Semyon Narinyani ^[10] .

From December 1931 he became deputy manager of the institute of the Moscow State Institute for the Design of Metallurgical Plants (Mosgipromez) ^[7] . For advanced training, he was sent on a business trip to Germany as an assistant to the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry ^[8] V. Emelyanov ^[1] . Together with his family he lived in Berlin , studied the course of construction of the metro , the work of the drainage device in the tunnel under Alexanderplatz ^[11] . Due to the exacerbation of the political situation in Germany, he was recalled to the USSR ^[12] .

After a brief tenure as a senior engineer of the foreign department of the People 's Commissariat of Industry ^[12] in the spring of 1934, he was assigned to build a textile mill in the Turkish city ​​of Kayseri . He worked as Deputy Chief Engineer and Commissioner for the construction and installation of equipment. From July 1935, he worked as deputy chief engineer of the Turkstroy trust at the heavy industry people's commissariat who was responsible for the construction by Soviet specialists of facilities in Turkey. From February 1936 again at the construction site - became the head of the construction of a textile mill in Nazilli (Turkey) ^[7] .

From December 1937, he worked as deputy head of the construction business of the Exportstroy trust; in August 1938, he headed the head department of capital construction of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Machinery of the USSR , and from December he became the head of the construction industry of the same people's commissariat. From July 1939, he headed the main construction department in the north-western regions of the USSR, the people's commissariat of construction of the USSR ^[8] . Supervised the construction of a fleet base in the Estonian city of Paldiski ^{[13] [14]} .

From April 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army, where he was awarded the military rank of " second rank military engineer " and served as construction manager of the main naval base of the Baltic Fleet in Tallinn . In February 1941 he was transferred to the Navy and sent to the reserve, as he was appointed Deputy Commissar of Heavy Engineering Construction. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he was transferred to the Deputy Commissar of Machine Tool Industry of the USSR ^[7] .

In December 1944, the Komzin Navy was transferred to the NKVD and was appointed head of the Baltic Naval Construction Directorate of the USSR; He is again engaged in the construction of a fleet base in Tallinn, and is rebuilding fleet infrastructure in other cities. April 10, 1945 he was awarded the title of Major General Engineering and Technical Services ^[8] . For extensive work on the organization of the construction of the bases of the Baltic Fleet, Komzin was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree ^[15] . He was a member of the tripartite commission of the allied forces of the anti-Hitler coalition in the division of the German technical fleet ^[16] .

Since January 1946, Komzin has been working as deputy people's commissar for the construction of military and naval enterprises of the USSR ^[7] . Under his leadership, the Sevastopol Thermal Power Plant was restored, the Khramsk Hydroelectric Power Plant was put into operation, and he also commissioned a thermal power plant in Rustavi ^[1] . In October 1948, he became head of the department at the Council of Ministers of the USSR for the restoration of the city of Sevastopol . In November 1949 he was again transferred to the Soviet Navy ^[7] .

Kuybyshev hydroelectric station

One of the most important construction projects in the life of Komzin was the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station ^[4] . Many years later, he compared August 1950, when he was appointed head of the construction department of Kuybyshevgidrostroy , which is being built for the construction of a hydroelectric power station, with a second birthday ^[4] . The department was part of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs , and, according to the established procedure, Komzin also became head of Kuneevlag , a division of the system of correctional labor institutions established to provide construction for the workforce, which he headed until August 1952 ^[8] when construction was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs transferred to the Ministry of Energy ^[2] .

Ivan Vasilyevich Komzin headed Kuybyshegidrostroy for nine years. Under his leadership, the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Plant (1950-1958) was built ^[8] , at the time of commissioning, the largest in the world, the construction of which completed 185 million cubic meters of earthworks, 7.3 million cubic meters of concrete and reinforced concrete were laid, 100 thousand tons of steel structures were mounted ^{[ 4]} , and in the course of the work a world record was set for laying concrete - more than 19 thousand cubic meters per day ^[17] . Also were built Stavropol (now Togliatti ) plants Volgocemmash and electrical , Zhiguli plant building materials ^[8] . In October 1956, he retired from the ranks of the armed forces, leaving the head of the CSC.

Fully focused on industrial construction, Comzin constantly clashed with local authorities, who demanded that he develop local infrastructure ^[18] . For example, although the government ordered the transfer of Stavropol from the flood zone to Kuybyshevgidrostroy, Komzin obtained a review of the decision, shifting the transfer of the city to local authorities, whose capabilities were not comparable with those of one of the largest construction organizations in the country ^[18] . Kuibyshevgidrostroy, obeying the principles of his leader, placed his employees not in the city, but in 11 villages around Stavropol, built up spontaneously and practically without any plan. The construction of temporary barracks-piles, on the one hand, made it possible to give people a roof over their heads as quickly as possible, but on the other, it created considerable difficulties for the city, which became evident already by the 1960s, and the city managed to completely get rid of these “temporary” buildings. thirty years later ^[19] . As an example of an alternative approach, historians point to the Stalingrad Hydroelectric Power Station , which was being built at the same time, where construction manager FG Loginov began building the city by building Volzhsk’s builders, which were immediately built up thoroughly and with all the necessary infrastructure facilities, up to the Palace of Culture, the swimming pool, and the city park. Even barracks for prisoners were housed in good-quality stone houses, which, after the liquidation of the camps, were re-planned into full-length apartments ^[19] , while the barracks in the Stavropol camps were, at best, suitable for conversion to dormitories ^[18] . However, in the country as a whole, it was considered indecent and non-socialist to devote too much attention to personal comforts at such times, an approach prevailed: “we must build a factory, not housing; you need housing - a system, ”and therefore Ivan Komzin received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and Fyodor Loginov was reprimanded“ for delaying the construction of the main hydroelectric facilities ” ^{[18] [19]} .

Such a confrontation between Komzin and local authorities has manifested itself repeatedly, even in small things. So, at one of the meetings of the party-economic activist builders, Komzin rudely asked the first secretary of the Stavropol city party committee, Alexei Yelizavetin : “And who invited you here?”, To which he parried “Nobody invited me here, the party sent me here!”. Later, when Komzin repeatedly ignored invitations to the city party committee, Elizavetin at the next meeting told him: “If you continue to continue this attitude towards the city committee of the party, you will lose the golden shoulder strap and party ticket ! I understand perfectly well that in half an hour I will be removed from work, but I will do it earlier! ” After that, Komzin became more respectful of Elizavetin, but he retained his style of relations with other representatives of the local administration ^[18] . It was not possible to control Komzin and the first secretary of the regional committee, M. T. Efremov — according to the testimony of the secretary of the Stavropol city committee of the party, A. Parensky , it was obvious that if he had tried to move the construction manager, he would have lost his post ^[20] .

However, it was largely thanks to Komzin in 1951 that the first university (now Togliatti State University ) appeared in Stavropol ^[4] . At the construction site there was always a serious shortage of qualified engineering and technical workers. In 1952, out of 588 executives at the construction site, only 266 had a higher education, and 122 people had incomplete secondary and primary education ^[21] , during the period of most intensive construction (1953-1954) the total shortage of engineering and technical personnel amounted to 1,174 people ^{[ 22]} . Komzin approached the solution of the problem of shortage of qualified personnel on a large scale. At his request, an order was issued by the Minister of Higher Education dated January 29, 1951, according to which the Stavropol Evening Hydrotechnical Technical School and the evening department of the Kuybyshev Industrial Institute were opened in the city, and in his book Komzin wrote that he started searching for premises under the technical school on the second day of his stay in Stavropol ^[23] . When the technical school were organized courses, which were taken by skilled workers, masters and foremen, who did not have a special technical education, in 1954 the first graduation took place ^[24] .

The evening department of the institute was originally located in one of the rooms of the KGS administration building in old Stavropol, in which two desks and chairs were placed. 5-month courses were also organized for future applicants, the costs of which were incurred by the CSC. In the fall of the same year, 150 students began their studies, most of whom had already worked in the field of construction. Komzin ordered the evening students to be transferred to the left bank objects so that they could have time for classes, forbade them to work in the evening shift, ensured the delivery of students to study: the shift cars went to the beginning of classes from the construction site. At the expense of the CSC, a training building was built in the new Stavropol and houses for teachers. In 1955, the branch was transformed into a faculty ^[25] , one of the departments of which was headed by Komzin himself - he lectured on the organization of work ^[4] , which was very popular among students and researchers, was the chairman of the examination committee ^[26] .

In 1957, Ivan Komzin received the title of professor . According to the memoirs of A. T. Parensky , Komzin came to the meeting of the Academic Council in full general's form with a retinue, which carried dozens of photo albums. His scientific report was brief:

“Dear members of the Academic Council, I’m a construction practitioner, I did not have time to write monographs and dissertations, all my work is presented in photographs of objects erected under my leadership in Magnitogorsk, Turkey, Tallinn, Sevastopol, as well as at the Kuybyshevsky hydroelectric complex, Stavropol. I will be happy to answer all your questions. Thank"

- ^[27]

After several professional questions to which the applicant responded competently, the council unanimously voted to award him the title to participate in the training of young specialists and the results of scientific work: a collection of articles by the main specialists who participated in the construction of a hydroelectric power station was published under the leadership of Komzin ^[27] . However, journalist Yuri Oklyansky, who worked in construction, believes that it was the desire for the title of professor that became the main reason for the establishment of the Komzin Institute in Stavropol ^[28] .

Komzin also contributed significantly to the discovery in 1957 in Stavropol of a biostation of the Institute of Biology of Inland Waters (now the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences ) ^[4] , first agreeing with the head of the institute Papanin on opening a biostation in Stavropol ^[29] , and then donating a two-storey station building in the village of Komsomolsk ^[30] .

Komzin combined construction management and teaching and social activities. He was elected a deputy to the Stavropol and Kuibyshev regional Soviets of Workers' Deputies, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Kuibyshev Region 3 (1951–1955) and 4 (1955–1959) convocations. Member of the Presidium of the Committee of Solidarity of Asian and African Countries ^[4] .

Further biography

During the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station, the development of a project for the second stage of the hydroelectric complex began: the Perevolokskaya hydroelectric station with an installed capacity of 2,400,000 kW. Having learned about the project of KGS engineers, Komzin said: “That's it - there is no doubt, we will build Perevolokskaya. Give me this project, I’m going to Moscow and I will prove that it is necessary to immediately begin construction, which will save the team of builders. ”However, the leadership of the USSR during this period was quite negatively related to hydropower, believing that heat plants were cheaper and built faster ^[31] . As a result, after the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station, in 1959, Komzin was sent to Egypt , where for three years he was the main Soviet expert on the construction of the Aswan hydroelectric complex ^[2] .

В 1962 году тяжело заболела супруга Комзина, Ольга Яковлевна, и ему пришлось перевестись на работу в Москву. Он стал профессором кафедры гидротехнического строительства Московского инженерно-строительного института ^[32] , но уже в 1963 году вновь оказался на административной работе, возглавив управление Главгидроэнергострой по строительству ГЭС в центральной и южной части СССР и коллегию Государственного производственного комитета по энергетике и электрификации СССР ^[2] . Занимался вопросами строительства Днепродзержинской , Воткинской , Беломорской ГЭС, Заинской , Ереванской, Тбилисской ТЭЦ, вводом в эксплуатацию десятков крупных заводов и производств ^[4] .

В 1966 году вновь вернулся к преподавательской деятельности, будучи профессором кафедры МИСИ до 1971 года ^[32] , с 1968 года также возглавлял Всесоюзный научно-исследовательский институт организации и управления в строительстве ^[2] . С 1975 года на пенсии. Продолжал читать лекции в строительных вузах ^[8] .

Знал немецкий, турецкий ^[7] и английский ^[33] языки. Был весьма крупным человеком, его рост составлял 195 см, а вес 117 кг, из-за чего он испытывал определённые бытовые неудобства. Так, его пальцы не помещались в номеронабиратель телефона, и стандартные диски приходилось заменять на другие, с более широкими ячейками ^[34] . Другой проблемой была обувь, которую Комзин по много часов ежедневно проводивший на стройках, снашивал очень быстро и которую купить было сложно из-за 47-го размера ноги ^[34] . Шофер Комзина на строительстве Куйбышевской ГЭС Николай Бурцев рассказывал, что часто возил обувь начальника ремонтировать в лагерь, где заключённые смеялись, предлагая купить новую обувь в складчину. «Вообще, любили его: он же был тут в самое тяжелое время и пробыл до конца…» — вспоминал Николай Семизоров ^[4] . С именем Комзина связывают появление праздника « День строителя » ^[17] , установленный в 1955 году.

После выхода на пенсию проживал в писательском посёлке Переделкино . Скончался 27 марта 1983 года, похоронен на Переделкинском кладбище рядом с супругой ^[35] .

Фигура Комзина в литературе оценивается достаточно неоднозначно ^[36] , но все сходятся, что это весьма неординарная личность ^[19] , а некоторые используют даже эпитет «поразительный» ^[28] .

Главный энергетик строительства Куйбышевской ГЭС Игорь Никулин тепло отзывался о бывшем начальнике, считая его блестящим профессионалом, а также честным и справедливым человеком, который высокое положение использовал, в первую очередь, для преодоления бюрократических препон и обеспечения строительства всем необходимым. По словам Никулина, Комзин также делал всё возможное в условиях ГУЛАГа, чтобы облегчить участь заключённых, доверяя зэкам -инженерам ответственные участки работа и создавая им необходимые условия ^[4] . Похоже отзывался о Комзине и Николай Семизоров , указывая, что тот никого не притеснял, не посадил, а наоборот, освобождал; пользовался большим авторитетом, в том числе среди заключённых ^[4] . Ещё одн участник строительства В. И. Борисов говорил: «Комзин — человек широкого суждения, масштаба, великолепной эрудиции, всегда умел увлечь нас, молодых специалистов, словом и делом. И мы его просто боготворили» ^[37] .

Историки и сослуживцы отмечают, что Комзин был достаточно непосредственным человеком, импульсивным, с широкой душой, часто подвозил подчинённых на служебной машине, подбирая их с автобусной обстановки ^[19] . Шофёр Комзина и вовсе называл его «простейшим человеком», вспоминая, как тот приходил к нему обедать, когда дома нечего было есть, и как однажды пришлось ударить начальника по рукам, чтобы тот не лез в управление автомобилем ^[4] . Комзин был резким, жёстко-властным в общении, порой переходя на крик, не стесняясь и ненормативной лексики ^[17] , малознакомым людям поначалу представлялся человеком строгим и хмурым, даже заслужил прозвище «Иван Грозный» ^[19] , но при этом был отходчив ^[17] , вслед за строгим внушением ему ничего не стоило простодушно рассмеяться ^[19] . Комзин был объективен в отношении людей ^[17] , его хотя и побаивались, но уважали за справедливость ^[38] , он умел соглашаться с аргументацией и признавать собственные ошибки ^[17] . Любил детей — А. Паренский вспоминал, как Комзин играл с его сыном, катая его по комнате на четвереньках ^[39] , а тольяттинский журналист В. Иванов рассказывал, что, когда в 1956 году строители не успели с открытием школы к началу нового учебного года, Комзин распорядился отдать под учебные классы половину здания управления КГС ^[17] .

В характере Комзина часто проявлялись артистизм и даже позёрство, игра на публику. Так, Комзин выжимал двухпудовые гири, но делал это в огороде, напоказ перед соседями ^[18] , а на службе, не желая отказывать лично многочисленным просителям, ставил разрешающие резолюции на их прошениях, но подчинённые должны были исполнять лишь подписанные красным карандашом и игнорировать синий ^[40] . Также сохранились воспоминания о том, что после одного из совещаний в ЦК КПСС , где отмечалось злоупотребление руководителями всех рангов с жильём (а и Комзин, и ряд других руководителей строительства, приехав в Ставрополь и получив коттеджи , сохранили за собой квартиры в Москве и других городах), Иван Васильевич собрал собственное совещание, на котором заявил: «Правильно нас критикует Центральный Комитет, я в этом тоже виноват. Предлагаю в недельный срок или сдать квартиры в других городах, или освободить здесь жилье. Я первый подаю пример и отдаю свой коттедж для размещения детского садика». Вскоре Комзин освободил коттедж в Портпоселке и переехал к племяннице в Соцгород, в её трёхкомнатную квартиру, где та проживала с мужем и двумя детьми. А уже через пару месяцев, когда кампания по наведению порядка с жильём окончилась, Комзин вернулся в свой коттедж, который, разумеется, никто и не думал занимать ^{[41] [18]} .

Игра на публику проявлялась и в освещении хода строительства Куйбышевской ГЭС перед прессой. Заведующий отделом электростанций и электропромышленности бюро по электроэнергетике Совета Министров СССР А. С. Павленко в начале 1953 года докладывал Берии об искажении руководством КГС информации о настоящем положении дел. Так, Комзин в сообщении газете « Известия », опубликованном 31 декабря 1952 года, заявил, что «строители Куйбышевской ГЭС при повседневной помощи Советского правительства, Центрального Комитета и лично товарища Сталина досрочно выполнили план строительно-монтажных работ 1952 года», при том, что в реальности на стройке имелось столь значительное отставание от плана работ, что МВД было вынуждено уменьшить финансирование капитальных работ на стройке в 4 квартале 1952 года на 50 млн рублей. В докладной указывалось, что это был не единичный случай — немногим ранее, накануне XIX съезда партии , в « Правде » Комзин сообщал о том, что Куйбышевгидрострой приступил к укладке бетона в основные гидротехнические сооружения, в то время как на самом деле эти работы ещё не начинались. Павленко писал, что Комзин вообще много внимания уделяет саморекламе и нередко сообщает в печати и по радио неправильные данные ^[42] .

Журналист Оклянский полагал, что только бахвальству Комзина служила и появившаяся в ходе строительства многокилометровая подвесная канатная дорога , которая, несмотря на огромные затраты, не имела производственной надобности, но служила хорошим театральным эффектом при демонстрации журналистам: «— Такое встретишь только у нас! И нигде больше на всем земном шаре! Ни в какой там Америке!» ^[28]

Semizorov recalled that Komzin “thought like a state. Always interested in the life of builders. Always found the right word. He appreciated and promoted young people ... A man with a little adventure - but you can’t be simple with builders ... He never lost heart, even when he broke through a dam and threatened with catastrophe ... ” ^[4] . At the same time, local historian V. Ovsyannikov pointed out that, on a state-of-the-art scale of thinking, Komzin preferred to ignore local needs ^[18] .

Komzin in every way prevented the establishment of control over themselves. Thus, during the stay of the KGS as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , a political department was created for party control over construction, but being in official position was actually higher than the construction manager, the head of this department had a rank lower than Komzin’s, and was considered his deputy, which brought the control to naught . As a result, the construction manager often ignored important meetings in the political department, and the head of the political department often did not attend various construction events, which, according to eyewitnesses, negatively affected the overall result of the work ^[43] . N. Frolov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gidrostroitel, also recalled in his memoirs that an auditor from a certain state control agency had arrived at the construction site, who discovered many violations, including the apparently negligent storage of scarce materials, but after the auditor’s report at the meeting, Komzin He took up the elimination of shortcomings, and got in touch with Moscow and got the controller’s response ^[18] .

Komzin’s ability to easily communicate and negotiate with senior management even generated a variety of rumors. N. Frolov noted that Komzin "spoke freely on HF with ministers, with the government apparatus," and believed that this was due to Kamzin's relationship with the chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Nikolai Bulganin ^[44] . A. Parensky ^[38] also wrote about the kinship of Komzin with Bulganin, arguing that thanks to this the construction received both special funding from the budget and various scarce materials. Komzin himself neither confirmed nor disproved such rumors, using them if necessary ^[34] , and closer colleagues testify that in those cases when he actually applied for materials and assistance, these appeals were addressed mainly to Beria; besides, he asked Stalin personally for help several times ^[4] .

The majority believes that Komzin, being himself a good technical specialist, as well as an experienced leader with a talent to select competent specialists, set tasks for them and achieve them, turned out to be almost indispensable when leading huge teams performing important state tasks, so Ivan Vasilyevich could imagine allow to defend their point of view before leaders of any level, without taking into account local officials and party leaders ^[2] .

Komzin, according to reviews who knew him personally, was a diversified gifted person ^[28] . One of the manifestations of this was his literary talent. He is the author of five books that are popular ^[45] and have been translated into foreign languages.

At the same time, the books of Komzin are not without numerous flaws. They point out that the actual work, that is, the construction sites, is described in the most general terms, the author prefers to talk about brief and insignificant episodes, and that the reader from this fragmentary description has a true picture of the large-scale construction that is being conducted without proper planning and documentation, with the help of assaulting, with numerous safety violations and extremely difficult living conditions, a good general historical view of the narrative time is required. It is also noted that despite the fact that Komzin constantly worked in thousands of collectives, in his memoirs the environment is presented very flatly: surname, name, short episode at a construction site. An exception is made only for a few, and the most prominent is the figure of Boris Kovalenko ^[36] , repeatedly mentioned in the books: “Dodger. Sly. Vanity. Loves to be photographed for newspapers and magazines. Leads acquaintance and friendship with writers and cameramen, with artists and artists, is included in the ministers. But no self-interest. Just for business. Only for the brigade, for construction. He is in love with his job, rushes forward, eager to excel. And this passion cannot be disregarded ” ^[46] . An employee of the Togliatti Museum of Local Lore, O. G. Bochkareva writes that this description is very suitable, first of all, for Komzin himself. Also scant information about himself, and in later books, which included edited texts previously published, episodes are noticeably reduced, where the author describes his own mistakes and mistakes, his excessive emotionality and a painful attitude towards criticism. The already brief descriptions of family life were also reduced. This is due to the fact that the author sought to hide his personal position, the books are a political order and are adjusted not only for censorship reasons, but also depending on the needs of the moment. Their general style corresponds to Soviet cliches and slogans - pathos with minimal information content, and as a result it seems that the author would like to describe everything in more detail, but he can’t do it at all, and is forced to limit himself to hints. All this greatly reduces the value of memoirs as a historical source, although they retain emotional value, being primarily a glorification of the power of the human spirit: Komzin seems to constantly be surprised at the people he meets and their actions ^[36] . At the same time, according to journalist S. Melnik , Komzin’s memoirs are written vividly and interestingly, and their author was able to really touch the reader ^[4] . It is also noted that in the books, Komzin was able to accurately characterize the psychology of the builder, raise the value of professional work to a level of understanding the purpose and happiness of life ^[45] .

In addition, Ivan Vasilyevich was the author of numerous notes and reports in the central press. And if the books underwent numerous censorship edits (for example, in the times of Khrushchev, all references to Stalin and Beria were excluded, and in the times of Brezhnev , the name of Khrushchev himself ^[4] ), then there was hardly any editing in the press. The writer Yuri Oklyansky, who worked on the construction as a correspondent for the Literary Gazette , noted that when there was a need for a regular interview, Komzin, by telephone without prior preparation, could easily tell everything that was needed for the press, telling both the numbers and the facts, knowing how to screw the production an anecdote, interesting events and incidents, skillfully presented them to the future reader, so that the correction was minimal: “He said he sang” ^[28] .

The wife of Ivan Komzin - Olga Yakovlevna, lived in Moscow, worked in the Kremlin hospital ^[4] .

Son Boris was born on October 21, 1929 in Moscow. In 1955 he graduated with honors from the Kuibyshev Hydrotechnical Institute , also worked on the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric station, introduced electric heating of concrete , and later defended his thesis on the experience of working with electric heating on the construction of hydroelectric stations. Later he worked at the Institute of Hydroenergoproekt of the Ministry of Energy of the USSR, at the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, since 1965 at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations . He specialized in economic problems of world scientific and technological development and energy, scientific and technical support of military construction. In 1983, he led the Soviet delegation to the UN on the issue of the demilitarization of scientific research. Author of more than 250 scientific papers; UN and UNESCO expert. He brought up two children ^{[47] [48]} .

Daughter Irina, born in 1949 ^[49] .

On September 1, 1983, the street in Togliatti was named after Ivan Vasilievich Komzin ^[4] . In 2005, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Komzin was solemnly celebrated in Portposelok ^[50] , and on August 12 the same monument was erected in front of school No. 22 ^[51] . In 2016, the monument was restored ^[52] . Since May 2015, the name of Komzin has been the Togliatti school number 2 ^{[53] [54]} . An oak tree planted by Komzin in front of his office in 1954 is considered a living monument in Togliatti ^[55] .

Exhibitions dedicated to Ivan Komzin were held in the Library of Avtograd (2010 ^[56] , 2015 ^[57] ), Togliatti Library No. 3 (2016) ^[53] , Togliatti Regional Museum (2007) ^[58] .

• Hero of Socialist Labor (№ 9152, 9.08.1958) ^[8]
• Two Orders of Lenin (11/10/1943; 9/08/1958) ^[8] ;
• Two orders of World War I degree (07.24.1945, 1946) ^{[8] [15]} ;
• Order of the October Revolution (06/30/1975) ^[8] ;
• Order of the Nile Necklace of the United Arab Republic ^[8] ;
• Order of the Blue Nile ( Ethiopia ) ^[8] ;
• Silver medal “In memory of the laying of the foundation of the Aswan Dam. 01/09/1960 ”( OAR );
• Medal "Sadd al-Aali. Overlapping the Nile River. 1964 ”( OAR );
• Honored Builder of the RSFSR ;
• Honorary Doctor of the Leipzig Higher Technical School (1977) ^[8] .

• Komzin I.V. This is happiness: Essays on the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric complex. - M .: Young Guard , 1959. - 285 p. - 30 000 copies
• Komzin I.V. Volzhskaya HPP named after V.I. Lenin / Prof. I.V. Komzin, E.V. Lukyanov. - Kuibyshev : Prince. Publishing House, 1960 .-- 119 p.
• Komzin I.V. Notes of the Soviet power engineer. - M .: Gospolitizdat , 1960 .-- 110 p.
• Komzin I.V. This is happiness: Essays on the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric complex. - 2nd ed. - M .: Young Guard, 1961 .-- 287 p. - 50 000 copies
• Ivan Komzine. Le haut-barrage d'Assouan: [ fr. ] . - Moscou: Éditions en langues étrangères , 1963 .-- 109 p. - Trad. du russe par A. Karvovski.
• Ivan Komzin. The high Aswan dam: [ eng ] . - Moscow: Foreign languages ​​publ. house , 1963. - 98 p. - Transl. from the Russian by Leo Lempert.
• Komzin I.V. Light of Aswan. - M .: Young Guard, 1964 .-- 207 p. - 30 000 copies
• Komzin I.V. I believe in a dream. - M .: Politizdat, 1973.- 368 p. - 70 000 copies

• Astakhov E.E. Three Steps to the Future: Notes of the writer about the people and affairs of Kuybyshevgidrostroy. - Kuibyshev, 1981. - 127 p.
• Belyaev I.N. Honor and glory - according to work. - Smolensk : Smolensk Regional Scientific Library. V. I. Lenin, 1991. - 332 p.
• Belyaev I. N. At the source of two man-made seas. Komzin I.V. // Smolyan in the history of the Russian fleet. - Smolensk: Smyadyn, 2000. - 478 p. - ISBN 5-87210-183-X .
• Lurie V.M. Admirals and Generals of the USSR Navy during the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars (1941-1945). - SPb. : BLITZ Russian-Baltic Information Center, 2001. - P. 114-115. - 280 s. - 1000 copies - ISBN 5-86789-102-X.
• Melnik S.G. Streets of memory. - 2nd ed., Pererab. and add. - Tolyatti : The Foundation of Spiritual Heritage, 2005. - P. 100-115. - 151 s. - (Origins). - 1000 copies - ISBN 5-902084-06-7 .
• Овсянников В. А. Строитель Комзин И. В. // Ставрополь – Тольятти : Страницы истории : ч. 2 : Дела и люди. — Тольятти: Современник, 1999. — 400 с. - 3000 copies — ISBN 5-85234-100-2 .
• Паренский А. Т. Судьба моя — Тольятти: Записки председателя горсовета. — Тольятти: Изд-во фонда «Развитие через образование», 1997. — 189 с. - 3000 copies — ISBN 5-88299-021-1 .

• Комзин, Иван Васильевич (рус.) . The site " Heroes of the country ."
• Мельник С. Г. Масштаб Комзина // Relga : электронный журнал. — 17 июня 2005. — № 9 (111) 17 июня 2005 .
• Джим Ахпателов, Наталия Казановская. Иван Комзин (неопр.) . Все для МГСУ (03.01.2012). Дата обращения 14 марта 2018.
• “This is happiness”: 110 years since the birth of Ivan Vasilievich Komzin and 65 years since the founding of Kuybyshevgidrostroy: bibliographic index / MBUK “Avtograd Library”; MBUK "Togliatti Library Corporation"; MBUK "Togliatti Regional Museum"; Office for Archives of the City Hall Tolyatti; status : A. Mishchenko. In .. - Togliatti: Library of the Auto City, 2015. - 50 p.