S.A.Afanasyev - Early Life
Sergey Aleksandrovich Afanasiev was born in the city of Klin, Moscow region. As Sergey Alexandrovich himself recalled, "the concept of the Motherland is primarily connected with the place where he was born and raised. My childhood passed to Klin. I remember fishing and bathing above the dam. Then there was a lot of water and fish in the Sister River ... "Sergei's father was an employee, his mother a housewife, and his grandfather and grandmother were peasants. In his youth Sergei Alexandrovich was developing successfully. His father's transfer to Moscow allowed him to study at a Moscow school, and then at the Institute (at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School). Here he studied, and actively participated in public life, was fond of sports. Sergei loved volleyball, he was distinguished by the powerful supply of the ball, he was the soul and the real leader of this student team, and in the future - of any other collective, up to the Ministry. His name was "The Great" all his life, not only for his tall stature and strong physique, but also for his undeniable skill to lead.
From 1930 onwards he lived in Moscow. In 1941 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of mechanical engineering Bauman. In the 1938-1941 concurrently with studies he worked as a senior serviceman automatic machines at the automobile plant named after I.V.Stalin (now Zavod imeni I.A. Likhachova) in Moscow.
During the Great Patriotic War, from June 1941 onwards he worked as a master and as a design engineer at artillery factory No. 8 in Podlipkah (nowadays the city of Korolev, Moscow region). After the evacuation of the plant to the rear since October 1941 onwards he worked at the plant No. 172 in Molotov (the famous Motovilikha, now Perm) as a design engineer (1941-1942), Chief Engineer-designer (1942-1943), Chief of the Technical Department of the shop (1943-1944), Deputy Chief (1944-1946) and Deputy Chief mechanic plant (March-September 1946).
Already during this period Sergei Alexandrovich was distinguished by tremendous energy, exactingness to himself and responsibility in his work, aspiration for constant improvement. Of course, he was eager for the front, even volunteered for the Ural Tank Corps. But the guys were commanded: "March to the factory to work!" The plant, as well as other defense enterprises of the country, needed specialists with higher education. He worked as a foreman, a technologist, a contractor, a shop manager, the chief mechanic's hat, performing the most important tasks for the Red Army. It was necessary to repair a boiler plant from the emergency condition, so that production would not stop. And he performed special assignments for nuclear scientists, for which Sergei Alexandrovich received the first and very dear to him the Red Star Order. At plant No. 172 he developed anti-tank guided missiles-missiles cumulative actions that serve to combat tanks and self-propelled artillery units of the enemy.
|
NEWSLETTER
|
| Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list |
|
|
|
