Melnikov, Nikolai Vasilievich (scientist)

Born on February 15 ( February 28 ), 1909 in Sarapul (now Udmurtia ).

• Since 1930, he worked in the coal industry system: shift engineer of a mine, design engineer of a design and research institute, chief engineer of a mine, chief engineer of a trust, director of the Krasnaya Zarya plant.
• In 1933 he graduated from the SGI .
• Since January 1946, a member of the board of the People's Commissariat (ministry) of coal industry in the eastern regions of the USSR.
• Since January 1949, a member of the Bureau of Fuel and Transport at the Council of Ministers of the USSR to verify the implementation of government decisions on the coal industry.
• Along with economic activity in 1950 - 1956 he worked as a professor at the Academy of Coal Industry.
• Since February 1951, deputy minister of paper and woodworking industry of the USSR for personnel.
• On October 23, 1953 he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the department of technical sciences.
• Since December 1953, a member of the Bureau of Metallurgy, Coal Industry and Geology under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
• From 1955 to 1964 he worked as deputy director and director of the IGDAN named after A. A. Skochinsky .
• In May 1959 - June 1960, Chairman of the Council for Technical and Economic Expertise of the USSR State Planning Commission .
• From 1961 to 1963 he was chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the fuel industry. Since 1963, Chairman of the State Committee for the Fuel Industry of the USSR State Planning Commission.
• On June 29, 1962, he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the department of technical sciences with a degree in mining.
• Since 1966 - Member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• Since 1967, he was the head of the sector of physical and technical mountain problems of the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the USSR Academy of Sciences, then the rector of the Academy of National Economy of the USSR and director of the Institute for the Problems of Integrated Subsoil Development of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944. Member of the USSR Supreme Council of the 6th convocation (1962-1966).

He died on December 7, 1980 . He was buried on December 11 in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot number 9) ^[2] .

Family

• son - Melnikov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (mining engineer)

The main scientific achievements of N.V. Melnikov is associated with the development of the theory of an open method of mining, crushing rocks by explosions, methods for determining the operating parameters of mining machines, and with the development of the mining industry. ^[3]

• Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1960)
• Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1946) - for radical improvements in open pit coal mining, which provided a significant increase in labor productivity and an increase in coal production
• USSR State Prize (1979) - for the development and implementation of advanced technical solutions for the development in a short time of the Talnakh-Oktyabrsky polymetallic deposit, which ensured a sharp increase in the production of non-ferrous metals at the Norilsk MMC
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1979) ^[4]
• Three Orders of Lenin (06/29/1966; 09/17/1975; 02/27/1979) ^[5]
• three orders of the Red Banner of Labor (04/08/1944; 02/28/1959; 03/07/1969)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (10/20/1943)
• medals
• Honorary Citizen of Sarapul (1981 - posthumously )

USSR Academy of Sciences in 1981 established a gold medal named after N. V. Melnikov, which is awarded for outstanding work in the field of integrated development of mineral resources. ^[6]

• A block of mining science. The film is about academician N.V. Melnikov. IKSP - Sarapul, 2009.
• The bust of the scientist is installed at the House-Museum in the homeland of the scientist in Sarapul
• The House-Museum in Sarapul is the only House-Museum in Russia ^[7] .
• Street in Sarapul - named after N.V. Melnikov

• Sidorenko A.V. , Melnikov N.V. Wealth for all // Izvestiya. Moscow evening issue 1976 Nov 29
• Melnikov N.V. Faster to develop open-pit coal mining // Truth. 1954, November 17.
• Melnikov N.V. Opencast mining. M.; L .: Ugletekhizdat, 1948. 408 p.
• Melnikov N.V. Billions of savings. What is the rational development of the fuel and energy base // Truth. 1967. January 16.
• Melnikov N.V. Associated, but not junk. [minerals] // Truth. 1971, March 24.
• Melnikov N.V. Ways of open mining // Economic newspaper. 1966. No. 7. S. 19-20.
• Melnikov N.V. Scout of the bowels of the earth: To the 60th birthday of K.I. Satpayev // Komsomolskaya Pravda. 1959.April 10.
• Melnikov N.V. Development of mining science in the field of open pit mining in the USSR. M .: Ugletekhizdat, 1957. 92 p .; 2nd ed. M .: Gosgortekhizdat, 1961. 183 p.
• Melnikov N. V. Speech [at a meeting of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR On the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR, on the State Budget of the USSR for 1965 and on the Implementation of the State Budget of the USSR for 1963] // Truth. 1964.12 December
• Melnikov N.V. Increase production, reduce the cost of coal // Truth. 1964.August 30.
• Melnikov N.V., Marchenko L.N. Explosion energy and charge design. M .: Nedra, 1964.138 s.
• Melnikov N.V. Fuel and Energy // Labor. 1966. January 6.
• Melnikov N.V. On the approaches to 2000 // Week. 1967. No 24. S. 8-9.
• Melnikov N.V. To us and grandchildren // Economic newspaper. 1967. No. 44.P. 37.
• Melnikov N.V. Treasures remain in the ground // Trud. 1967. Aug 12
• Melnikov N.V. Steel hands of mining masters: 10 answers // Week. 1967. No. 29. S. 4-5.
• Melnikov N.V. Speeches by the participants of the Annual General Meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences: On the Scientific Council on Exhibitions of Works of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Union Republic Sciences // Herald of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1973. No. 5. P. 34-35.
• Melnikov N.V. Limits of growth or infinity of development? // Stud. meridian. 1974. No. 3. P. 17-19.
• Melnikov N.V. Deep intelligence // Literary newspaper. 1975.16 July. S. 10.
• Melnikov N.V. Subsoil, rediscovered // Knowledge is power. 1977. No. 7. S. 5-7. Knowledge-Power 1976 No. 9 p. 4-6 Conversations on technological progress Geotechnology

• State power of the USSR. The supreme bodies of power and administration and their leaders. 1923-1991 Historical and Biographical Handbook / Comp. V.I. Ivkin. Moscow, 1999. - ISBN 5-8243-0014-3
• Mesyats S. P. Memory of the Future: (On the 105th Birthday of Academician N. V. Melnikov) // Mining Journal. 2014. No. 1. S. 88-90.

• Melnikov Nikolai Vasilievich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

• Trubetskoy K.N. Dedicated to mining // Science in Russia. 2009. No 1.

• BDT article
• Melnikov Nikolay Vasilievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Biography and bibliography on the website of the Archive of the RAS
• Profile of Nikolai Vasilievich Melnikov on the official website of the RAS