Mokrshansky, Boris Vasilievich

Born in 1889 in Odessa. In 1906 he entered and in 1913 graduated from the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute , receiving a degree in electrical engineering. In 1913-14 served as a manufacturer of works on the construction of overhead lines, a manufacturer of works on the construction of a power line of Petrograd - Sestroretsk with a voltage of 20,000 kV in the St. Petersburg branch of the "Society of Electric Lighting of 1886". In the years 1914-16. - Deputy Head of Cable and Air Networks of JSC "District Station" in Petrograd.

From 1916 to 1921 - in the Crimea. In the years 1916-19. He was in charge of the equipment for the power plant, cable network and workshops of the Sevastopol Marine Plant (6,000 workers). In August 1919, he participated in the restoration of the tram traffic in Sevastopol. In 1920-21. - Manager of the Crimean branch of Dynamo JSC, then Electrosila and the authorized officer of the VSNH Electrical Department.

In the early 1920s he moved to Moscow, in 1921-27. He served in Hydrotorf as an engineer, then as head of the electrical department.

Since 1922, B.V. Mokrshansky, the chief engineer for the construction of the Yaroslavl power plant, was involved in this project since the power plant was supposed to work on local peat from the Lyapinsky swamp, located near Yaroslavl. He, along with architect E.I. Norvert , is the author of the Lyapinsky state district power station project. Lyapinka is one of the first-born Soviet industry built in the constructivist style. In view of this circumstance, and also because all the equipment of the 1920s has been preserved in its current state, the local authorities plan to open a museum in the old station after building a new power station. Since 1980, the building of the power plant has been an object of cultural heritage of regional importance - a monument of industrial constructivism.

The furnaces of the design of engineers Viktor Kirpichnikov and Boris Mokrshansky were mounted on the boilers of the Bryansk State District Power Plant in 1929. They were intended for burning milled peat in a dust state with preliminary crushing and drying it in a mill.

Since 1927, he was a teacher in the peat department of the Mining Department of the Moscow Mining Academy , taught a course of special technology of peat (briquetting and pulverized fuel).

The first time he was arrested in 1922. From a letter from the Executive Director of Hydrotorf R.E. Klasson to the Transport Department of the GPU:

“Yesterday, May 4 [1922], a responsible officer of Hydrotorf was arrested in the apartment of engineer Eschenko, and the head of the Electrical Engineering Department was engineer B.V. Mokrshansky. Hydrotorf hereby requests that the engineer Mokrshansky be questioned and, if there are no grounds for further detention, to order his release. Hydrotorf is currently conducting preparatory work for the start of the peat season. Engineer Mokrshansky manages the development electrification, before the end of which the season cannot be started. In the coming days, the engineer Mokrshansky was supposed to go to the development of Power Transmission and Sormov. ”

Judging by the archival documents, B.V. Mokrshansky was soon released (under the guarantee of R.E. Klasson).

Since 1930, B.V. Mokrshansky headed the Department of Thermomechanical Processing of Peat at the Moscow Peat Institute . Since 1933 - professor at MPEI , taught a course of pulverized fuel. In Moscow, he lived at the address: Milyutinsky Lane , 3, apt. 35.

Arrested on June 2, 1933, was charged under Articles 58-6, 58-7, 58-9 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Sentenced October 13, 1933 by the OGPU Board to 10 years in prison. He served his term first in Dmitlag , at the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal . In his free time, he wrote articles for the Dmitlagov newspaper Perekovka. So, in 1937, the authorship of B. Mokrshansky published an article “Canal Power Plant” there:

“In order to raise water by 40 meters on the Volga-Moscow canal, we need to pump about 2 billion cubic meters annually. m. And this distinguishes our channel from other channels. Hydroelectric power plants will give a large amount of energy - [equivalent to capacity] 150 thousand kW. The largest stations are Ivankovskaya and Skhodnenskaya. ”

Then he was transferred to Ukhtpechlag , where he arrived on July 14, 1937. He worked on the construction of the Ukhta TPP, then he was transferred to the Design Department created for the purpose of streamlining design work as part of the Ukhtpechlag Office (now the Pechornipineft Institute). In the Design Department, he worked together with Mikhail Prokopyevich Edneral, also a brother of F.P. Edneral, who was also imprisoned.

Released November 21, 1943

After serving his term in late 1953, he lived in exile in the village of Shilinka in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Yu. Yurkevich recalled him like this:

“Professor Mokrshansky, a large power engineer and specialist in peat. He was 67 then, behind the camp, but energy spurted from him, a lively mind and humor shone. An old-school engineer, a gentleman, a pianist, was fluent in several languages. In the village everyone loved his wife, Vera Petrovna, a beautiful and sweet old woman. ”

Rehabilitated in the 1950s. After rehabilitation, he worked in Estonia at the Tootsi peat briquette factory, where he conducted serious research on the basic parameters that determine the effectiveness of peat briquette equipment. His work, published in several issues of Hydrotorf, was distinguished by fundamental research and practical recommendations. In addition, he was engaged in pedagogical activities, assistant professor.

He died on May 26, 1971 at the age of 83.

• Hydraulic briquette rotary press // 74054
• A method for protecting the working bodies of machines for processing peat or coal from sticking with wet material // 65506
• The way to prevent peat sticking of the working bodies of peat processing machines // 47282
• Drum filter press for peat dehydration // 33952
• Bunker device // 31553
• A device for transporting fuel and directing it to the loading funnels of boiler furnaces // 31552
• A device for converting small wet fuel into a dust state // 22841
• The dryer for a day of fuel // 21034
• Injector for pulverized fuel // 12766

• Mokrshansky B.V. Features of peat dust combustion and existing combustion devices for pulverized fuel. - [Moscow]: B. and., [1927].
• Mokrshansky B.V. Thermal drying of peat. - [Moscow]: B. and., [1927].
• Mokrshansky B.V. Peat grinding and peat dust transport. - [Moscow]: B. and., [1927].
• Mokrshansky B.V., Remizov L.A. Economic calculation of the plant [for dehydration of Hydrotorf] / B.V. Mokrshansky and L.A. Remizov. - [Moscow]: B. and., [1927].
• Mokrshansky B.V., Khaluga A.K. The process of briquetting peat dryers in a stamping press with an open matrix: (Experimental data). - Moscow: Giprotopprom, 1957.
• Scientific and technical meeting on peat briquetting. [Materials / Ed. Collegium: B.V. Mokrshansky (Ch. ed.) and others; Institute Giprotopprom Gosplan of the RSFSR. Byelorussian. Department of Scientific and Technical islands energy. industries BelNTOEP. Scientific and technical peat briquetting meeting. Apr 15-17 1958 - Minsk: Zvyazda], 1959.
• Zverev D.P., Mokrshansky B.V., Strukov B.I. Production of briquettes in the USSR / International Peat Congress. Leningrad. 1963.
• Mokrshansky B.V., Khaluga A.K. Mechanical and thermal processes when briquetting peat dryers in a stamping press with an open compression mold / Intern. peat congress. Leningrad. 1963.
• Laboratory work on milling peat briquetting and peat briquette coking: (From published works abroad) / Translation from it. A. Yu. Haluga; Ed. Assoc. B.V. Mokrshansky. - Moscow; Leningrad: Gosenergoizdat, 1963.

• Mokrshansky Boris Vasilievich in the project "Family Stories"
• TsGIA SPb. Fund 478. Inventory 1. Case 1396 Boris Vasilievich Mokrshansky
• Mokrshansky Boris Vasilievich in the project “Open List”
• Boris Vasilievich Mokrshansky (obituary). Peat Industry Magazine, 1971
• B.V. Mokrshansky in the project “Residents of houses. 1926 "
• Patents of the author Mokrshansky B.V.
• S. A. Tarkhov. First in Crimea: The history of the tram and trolleybus in Sevastopol
• Lyapinskaya TPP in Yaroslavl - the firstborn of Soviet energy
• S. Tsyplenkov. Firstborn GOELRO. Quadra-energy. No. 1 (73) January 2012.
• The boiler room will become a museum
• N.A. Fedorov. Volta arc. The newspaper Dmitrovsky Vestnik, July 24, 2004
• Atlas of the city of Ukhta. PECHORNIPINEFT
• Yurkevich Yu. The past passes before me ... - M.: Return, 2000