Chumachenko, Yury Nikolaevich

Yuri Chumachenko was born on July 25, 1939 in the Moscow district of Sokol , in the family of the seventh-class blacksmith and gold embroidery. Even during his childhood, his mother, as if anticipating the future of his son, embroidered the Star of a Hero for him. He spent his childhood in the house at the Silver Bor station of the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway . Observing the movement of locomotives, Chumachenko met with the railway ^[1] .

He graduated from the Railway School № 3 in the specialty of an electrician for the repair of rolling stock. He entered the depot Moscow-Sorting , however, until the age of 18, they were not allowed into the driver's cab at that time. Immediately after the age of majority, on July 26, 1957, Chumachenko set off on the first voyage as a stoker’s stoker , for a stoker’s shift he transferred 20 tons of coal. After a year and a half of work as a fireman, in 1959, when the first two electric locomotives arrived at the Sort, Chumachenko was transferred to locksmiths. The abrupt change in the type of traction led to the fact that many experienced locomotive drivers, who had excellent control of steam, could not immediately understand and eliminate the cause of the breakdown and the stopping of an electric locomotive. Once, at the Moscow-Kazan station, Chumachenko was able to detect and eliminate a malfunction in the electrical circuit of an electric locomotive, which was operated by the driver Viktor Lyon - known for having lettered a train with Stalin to Berlin at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 ^{[1] [2]} . In the depot Moscow-Sorting, Chumachenko personally met three participants in the very first Soviet clean-up in 1919, Ya. M. Kondratiev, V. M. Sidelnikov and F. I. Pavlov, and recorded their memories of a historical event ^[3] .

In the years 1959-1962 Chumachenko served urgent in the Northern Fleet . After training in the radio engineering detachment, where he gained the skill of capturing the sound of an enemy submarine, Chumachenko visited the minesweeper with combat watches on the island of Kildin, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land; the base was the city of Polar. January 11, 1962 Chumachenko was a direct witness to the explosion of shells on a Soviet submarine B-37 , which caused human casualties. In the Navy, Yuri became fascinated with literary work, his documentary reports from combat trawling, the stories “Crossing the two seas” and “At the edge of the ice” were published in the military newspaper “On Guard of the Polar Region” ^[1] .

In the 1980s, due to a sharp increase in freight traffic, the Moscow Railways intensively developed and introduced new technology and methods for driving heavy and long-haul trains. The first freight train with a super-heavy weight of 10 thousand. tons were conducted by machinists Viktor Sokolov (in the lead locomotive) and Dmitry Bogdanov (in the tail locomotive). The second train from the Rybnoye station to Moscow was held by Chumachenko. For participation in the development and implementation of driving heavy-weight train technology on June 14, 1982, Yury Chumachenko was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin. The salary of the machinist-hero, according to the memoirs of Chumachenko, in the 1980s was approximately equal to the salary of the Minister of Railways of the USSR ^{[1] [2]} .

Yu. N. Chumachenko is engaged in social activities. He was a member of the Bureau of the Perovsky District Committee of the CPSU, a member of the plenary sessions of the Komsomol Central Committee, the Moscow Komsomol City Committee, and other Komsomol forums. He is a member of the Central Council of War and Labor Veterans of Russian Railways . Conducts the heading "The club of machinists" in the newspaper " Moskovsky railwayman " ^{[1] [2]} .

For many years of conscientious and effective work on the railway, Yuri Chumachenko was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and the October Revolution, the medal "For Valiant Labor", "To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin ”, a gold medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, two watches from the Minister of Railways of the USSR, as well as watches from the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU M. S. Gorbachev (in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stakhanov movement ). In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Yuri Chumachenko with the medal "For the Development of Railways". Honorary railroad of the USSR and the Russian Federation ^{[1] [2]} .

Yuri Chumachenko is a widower, married to a second marriage, his current wife is Olga Petrovna, she is an economist.

From a marriage with a physician Alina Ivanovna, Chumachenko has two daughters - Lilia and Oksana. Two grandchildren - Vera (from her great-granddaughter Olesya) and Nikolai.