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Sh Akhurin Alexey Ivanovich - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR.
Born on February 12 (25), 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant. Russian.
From 1919 he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, and from 1921 as a milling machine operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow. In 1925, he was transferred to Komsomol work - secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow, then worked in the People's Commissariat of Trade of the RSFSR. Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in 1932. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925.
After graduating from the institute in 1932, he was assigned as the head of the production organization department of an aircraft plant. Since 1933 - in the Red Army. In 1933 - 1938 he served in the research and educational departments of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky. In February - April 1938, party organizer of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks at plant No. 1 "Aviakhim".
During a period of acute personnel shortages caused by mass repressions in the late 1930s, he was promoted to major leadership positions. In May 1938, Shakhurin was appointed 1st Secretary of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and from January 1939 - 1st Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Since March 1939 - member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
On January 10, 1940, Shakhurin was appointed People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR. In this post, he did a lot of work to create new aircraft factories, reconstruct previously existing ones, coordinate the work of design bureaus and enterprises, launch a series of new aircraft models, organize the prompt elimination of defects and deficiencies identified in numerous military operations of the pre-war period.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Shakhurin organized the urgent evacuation of aviation and related enterprises to the Volga region and Siberia. At the same time, Stalin set him the task of increasing the production of combat aircraft every day. These tasks were successfully solved: in the second quarter of 1941, the production of combat aircraft amounted to 27 units per day, in the third quarter of 1941, in the conditions of the outbreak of war - 61 combat aircraft per day. For the successful completion of this task, Shakhurin was nominated for the highest award of the Motherland.
"For outstanding achievements in the field of organization and implementation of mass production of new types of combat aircraft", by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941 Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Hammer and Sickle gold medal and the Order of Lenin.
In the subsequent years of the war, under the leadership of People's Commissar Shakhurin, a sharp increase in aircraft production was carried out. The production of domestic combat aircraft during the war is characterized by the following indicators: 1941 (July-December) - 8.2 thousand; 1942 - 21.7 thousand; 1943 - 29.9 thousand; 1944 - 33.2 thousand; 1945 (January-August) - 19.1 thousand combat aircraft. In total, 112.1 thousand combat aircraft were produced throughout the war. At the same time, the entire range of manufactured aircraft was completely replaced, and for some types of aircraft - more than once.
However, after the war, I.V. Stalin’s attitude towards the outstanding organizer and leader of the defense industry changed dramatically. According to one version, the reason was Shakhurin’s unyielding character, leading to frequent disputes with the leader and numerous conflicts with industrial and party leaders. The immediate reason was a letter from the son of I.V. Stalin, Major General of Aviation Vasily Stalin, that as a pilot he believed that American aircraft were better than Soviet ones. Shakhurin was removed from the post of People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR on January 5, 1946 and placed at the disposal of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In March 1946, he was removed from the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
On April 4, 1946, Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin was arrested. Together with him, the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Chief Marshal of Aviation A.A., was arrested and charged in the case. Novikov, chief engineer of the Air Force, Colonel General A.K. Repin, member of the Air Force Military Council, Colonel General N.S. Shimanov, Head of the Main Directorate of Air Force Orders, Lieutenant General N.P. Seleznev, heads of aviation departments of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A.V. Budnikov and G.M. Grigoryan.
On May 11, 1946, A.I. Shakhurin was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to 7 years in prison under Art. 193-17 item "b" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for "abuse and abuse of power under especially aggravating circumstances" and "production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products" with a petition for deprivation of state awards and military rank. The remaining defendants received sentences ranging from 2 to 6 years. By a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers of May 18, 1946, Shakhurin was stripped of his military rank. At the request of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, by decree of May 20, 1946, deprived Shakhurin, Repin, Novikov and Seleznev of all government awards, including Shakhurin - the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Soon after Stalin's death, in April 1953, Shakhurin was released (he served his entire sentence). On May 29, 1953, he was rehabilitated.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 2, 1953, Aleksey Ivanovich Shakhurin was restored to the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and all orders and medals were returned to him. By a resolution of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee of June 12, 1953, he was reinstated in the party. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated June 15, 1953, the military rank of Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service was returned to him.
In 1953 - 1957 - Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. In 1957 - 1959 - Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations. In August 1959 he was dismissed.
Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He worked from July 1962 to August 1963 as a consultant at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from March 1966 to October 1970 as a scientific consultant and senior researcher at the All-Union Research Institute of Standardization, from May 1971 to August 1973 as a senior researcher at the All-Union Research Institute for Normalization in Mechanical Engineering. Died on July 3, 1975. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (section 1).
Lieutenant General of the Aviation Engineering Service (04/30/1943).
Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service (08/19/1944, with a break).
Awarded two orders of Lenin (09/8/1941, 05/25/1944), orders of the Red Banner (11/5/1954), Suvorov 1st degree (09/16/1945), Kutuzov 1st degree (08/19/1944), Red Banner of Labor (24/02) .1954), Red Star, medal “For Military Merit” (11/3/1944), and other medals.
In Moscow, on the building of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky, a memorial plaque to A.I. was installed. Shakhurin.
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Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin(February 12 (February 25), 1904, Mikhailovskoye village, Podolsk district, Moscow region, - July 3, 1975, Moscow) - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry (1940-1946), Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service, Hero of Socialist Labor () . Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (-).

Born on February 12, 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant.

From 1919 he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, and from 1921 as a milling machine operator at the Manometer plant in Moscow. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925. In 1925, he was transferred to Komsomol work - secretary of the Baumansky district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow, then worked in the People's Commissariat of Trade of the RSFSR. In March 1926, at the VII Congress of the Komsomol, he was elected a member of the Komsomol Central Committee.

In 1927, he was approved as a representative of the Komsomol Central Committee to the All-Russian Committee on Industrial and Economic Education and appointed deputy chairman of the committee. In the fall of 1927, he entered the mechanical engineering department of the Industrial and Economic Institute, which later became known as. The first two years I studied in the evening department, worked during the day, then switched to full-time. He graduated from the institute in 1932.

Since 1933 in military service. In 1933-1938 he served in the research and educational department of the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Since February 1938, he was a party organizer at the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry plant.

In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). On the one hand, he continued the repressive practices of his predecessors; with his participation, in July 1938, the second secretary of the regional committee P. Ya. Salomakhin, the head of the ORPO of the regional committee F. I. Gromov, the secretary of the Yaroslavl city committee L. I. Tikhomirov, the authorized representative of the regional procurement committee were arrested Council of People's Commissars of the USSR N.V. Martynov and others. In August-September, a number of other leaders were repressed, in particular the secretaries of the district committees: Molvitinsky - I.M. Belkov, Poshekhono-Volodarsky - V.N. Kotov, manager of the regional film trust M.M. Tsvetkov and others. All the accused were presented as “participants in Trotskyist organizations.” On July 25-30, 1938, the III regional party conference was held in Yaroslavl. Shakhurin gave a report and summed up the implementation of the objectives of the February-March plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1937, “uprooting the enemies of the people.” On the other hand, Shakhurin focused mainly on economic activities and partially normalized the socio-political situation in the region. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR since 1938

In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In 1940-1946, People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. When the Radar Council under the State Defense Committee was created in 1943, he was appointed its member. In the summer of 1944, Stalin instructed Shakhurin to examine everything possible, together with the advancing troops, at the German missile site, which was to be captured by the Red Army on Polish territory.

In 1946, Shakhurin was repressed for the “aviation case.” On May 10-11, 1946, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by V.V. Ulrikh, sentenced him to 7 years on charges of “abuse of power” and “production of non-standard, substandard and incomplete products.”

In the verdict, A.I. Shakhurin was accused of the following: “for a long time, he produced aircraft and engines with large design and production defects and, in collusion with the command of the Air Force, put them into service with the Air Force, as a result of which a large number of accidents occurred in aviation units. accidents and catastrophes, pilots died, and many defective aircraft accumulated that could not be used in battles with the Germans...”

On May 29, 1953 he was rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.

In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

In 1957 - August 1959, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations.

Wife - Sofya Mironovna Lurie (1909-1977), daughter of timber merchant Miron Ionovich Lurie (1874-1966), sister of engineer and scientist in the field of turbine engineering I. M. Lurie (1905-1967). Son Vladimir (1928-1943) is known for the fact that on July 3, 1943 he shot the daughter of Ambassador Konstantin Umansky Nina and then shot himself

05.08.2016

In May, the presentation of the “Golden Book of the Leninsky District” took place at the Vidnovsky cinema “Iskra”. This unique publication tells the story of our fellow countrymen, whose military and labor feats are inscribed in golden letters in the history of our region.

The search for historians and local historians continues. Today we are publishing a new story about the Hero of Socialist Labor, which was not included in the book. During the Great Patriotic War, Alexei Shakhurin was called the great People's Commissar. He has been at the head of the aviation industry since the pre-war 1940. What importance was attached to aviation then and why is not worth explaining. We still proudly pronounce the names of the famous designers Tupolev and Mikoyan, Yakovlev and Ilyushin, Lavochkin and Myasishchev. The exploits of the pilots who smashed the enemy in the machines they created have not been forgotten. The outcome of those great battles was largely decided by our air superiority. But for this to happen, not only talented designers and aviators were needed, gifted organizers were also required. Our country had less than two years to create a powerful modern aviation industry. It was this problem that was successfully solved by Alexey Shakhurin, our fellow countryman, originally from the Moscow region.

Unexpected appointment

The appointment as People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry came as a complete surprise to Alexei Ivanovich. In early January 1940 Shakhurina was urgently summoned to Moscow from Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), where he headed the regional committee of the CPSU (b). They were waiting for him in the Kremlin.

Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin later recalled:

“In the office were Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov and other members Politburo. Everyone, except Stalin, who was walking around the room, was sitting.

Stalin continued to walk silently for some time. Then he stopped next to me and said: “We want to appoint you People’s Commissar of the aviation industry. We need fresh people, good organizers and also knowledgeable about aviation. How do you like it?"

The offer was unexpected. I didn't know what to say. He answered: “I’m unlikely to cope with this matter. Especially in Gorky I’m new, it’s interesting to work there, there are a lot of plans for the future that I would like to implement.”

Voroshilov intervened in the conversation. With his characteristic good nature, he remarked: “Look at the area you are in charge of and you can handle it.”

Soon a designer was invited A.S. Yakovleva. Stalin pointed at me: “This is the new People’s Commissar of the aviation industry, Comrade Shakhurin.”

I realized that the issue of my appointment had been resolved.

Originally from Mikhailovskoye

Alexey Shakhurin comes from the village Mikhailovskoe, which is near the Bitsa station. At the beginning of the last century it was located 20 kilometers from the capital. The peasants could not feed themselves on the land; men were drawn to Moscow enterprises. Aleksey Shakhurin’s father, along with his fellow villagers, came to work as a coppersmith at the Gakental factory, as the Manometer plant was called at that time. Ivan Matveevich. He mastered his craft perfectly, for which he was highly respected at the plant, where he worked for 40 years.

The mother was a match for the father - Tatyana Mikhailovna. Nature endowed this simple Russian woman with amazing spiritual strength and the gift of inner tact. The mother worked tirelessly. It is not surprising that the children tried to do everything themselves, grew up independent, and when their father went to the front of the First World War, the mother consulted with 10-year-old Alyosha, and he was the eldest son, as with an adult.

Memories of family and parents always warmed Alexey Ivanovich. And he also remembered the school and the first teacher. He picked up knowledge on the fly and loved to read. And this passion remained with him throughout his life.

Time forward!

Alexey’s “labor universities” began at the age of 13: he entered an electrical engineering office as an apprentice. And six months later the revolution broke out. And then the life of Alexei Shakhurin, like the whole country, rushed forward, gaining unprecedented momentum. In his memoirs, Alexey Ivanovich often writes that one or another period of his work history Although it was short-lived, it was eventful and played an important role in his life. Probably, what took others years, Shakhurin accomplished in months. Such was his human and professional potential.

At the age of 16 he works as an electrician; two years later, on the recommendation of his father, he comes to the plant "Pressure gauge". A year later he joined the Komsomol. Actively works with young people. Soon he is invited to the district Komsomol committee. At Lenin's call in 1924 he joined the Communist Party. Becomes a member of the Komsomol Central Committee. In 1927 he passed exams at the Engineering and Economic Institute named after. S. Ordzhonikidze. It was then that aircraft manufacturing first appeared in the life of Alexei Shakhurin.

The fighting motto of the youth of the 1920s was the call: “Working people, build an Air Fleet.” The Society of Friends of the Air Fleet was created in the country. And in the society of Marxist technicians, famous scientists and practitioners gave lectures and reports on aviation topics. Having heard about this, the future People's Commissar began attending classes. In addition to theoretical disciplines, during his studies he also completed practical training. He studied foundry at the “Red Proletarian”, open-hearth at the factory "Hammer and sickle", technological practice took place at ZIL and at the 1st State Bearing Plant.

In a word, the preparation was the most serious, and after graduating from the institute, Shakhurin was appointed head of the production organization department at one of the factories of the Civil Air Fleet. The plant was soon repurposed, and from 1933 to 1938 Alexey Ivanovich worked as an engineer at the Air Force Academy. NOT. Zhukovsky, which at that time was the only higher military aviation educational institution that trained engineers and designers, and also retrained aviation commanders.

Then a new round of acceleration begins in his biography. In February - April 1938, Alexey Ivanovich was a party organizer at plant No. 1 Aviakhim. Then he heads the Yaroslavl regional party committee, less than a year later he occupies the same post in Gorky. Since March 1939 - member of the party's Central Committee. Of course, he had, as they would say now, a successful career. But behind his successes was, first of all, hard work, organizational talent, the ability to inspire people and skillfully place them in their places, to find the main link in the work. Actually, this is where he began his work in the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry.

Not a day's delay

The very next morning after his appointment, Shakhurin gets acquainted with the affairs of his People's Commissariat. The procedure was established as follows: every day they heard and discussed the report of one of the heads of the main departments in the presence of factory workers. Everyone who wanted to speak spoke. They made proposals aimed at improving matters.

A special commission formed even before Shakhurin’s appointment as People’s Commissar that checked the state Armed Forces, noted that the material part of Soviet aviation “in its development lags behind the aviation of the advanced armies of other countries in terms of speed, engine power, armament and aircraft strength.” It was clear that special, exceptional measures were needed that would bring our aviation to the level of modern requirements in the shortest possible time.

The new People's Commissar was given difficult tasks, and he completed them with honor. All creative and production resources were devoted to the creation new types of aircraft. Alexey Ivanovich personally knew all the designers, traveled to factories, and sometimes entered into an argument with Stalin himself if he believed that this or that model deserved attention. IN 1940–1941 years, new models of combat aircraft were built, tested, put into service and put into mass production. The number of factories in the industry increased by 1.7 times compared to 1937. In 1940, the USSR was already producing more aircraft than Germany, but this achievement had one “but”. The Germans only have new types of aircraft, while we also had plenty of outdated models. It was decided to build 9 new aircraft and 6 new aircraft engine factories. Work on their creation was in full swing. In 1941, aircraft factories produced 2,000 Yak-1, LaGG-3, MiG-3 fighters, 458 Pe-2 bombers, 249 Il-2 attack aircraft. And yet, Alexey Ivanovich was nervous: would we have time to build the required number of new aircraft before the start of the war, the inevitability of which he understood perfectly well.

At this time, Shakhurin often visited the Kremlin. It happened that Stalin invited him to dinner. One day, in a relaxed atmosphere, the People's Commissar shared his worries with Stalin. Apparently, the fears of the young head of the aviation industry alarmed the leader, and two months later he returned to this conversation, asking the question:

– How is aircraft production going?

Shakhurin showed him the semi-annual and annual production schedules, which showed an increase in aircraft production by one or two per week. And on one of them, Stalin wrote in his own hand: “We, Shakhurin, Dementyev, Khrunichev, Voronin... (in a word, he listed all the deputy people’s commissars of the aviation industry), we hereby undertake to bring the daily production of combat aircraft in June 1941 to 50 aircraft per day".

Alexey Ivanovich asked permission to consult with the deputies. Having calculated everything, the leadership of the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry accepted Stalin's challenge. People understood perfectly well that increasing aircraft production was a matter of life and death for the country. The aircraft manufacturers kept their word. By the beginning of the war, 50 aircraft were produced per day, and by the end of 1941 this figure reached 100.

The aviation industry worked very clearly and rhythmically, increasing production. When sometimes these days we hear that new aircraft have appeared in USSR only in the second half of the war, it is quite obvious that this is stated by people who do not understand that it is impossible to create such equipment during combat operations. As A.I. himself said. Shakhurin: “If the war had found us with old equipment on stocks, then no amount of effort would have allowed us to master the mass production of new aircraft.”

For services to the Motherland in 1941 A.I. Shakhurin was awarded the country's highest award - the title Hero of Socialist Labor.

Wings of Victory

Shakhurin was not broken by the first difficulties of the war. Although the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry had to work in three directions at once. First of all, the latest aircraft were tested in combat. Secondly, it was necessary to sharply increase the production of combat vehicles in difficult war conditions. And finally, simultaneously evacuate the aviation industry to the Urals, Trans-Volga region, Central Asia and Siberia.

Shakhurin managed not only not to lose the thread of industry management, but also to retain the necessary personnel to continue the continuous production of aircraft.

These numbers speak volumes about the scale of the work. In the initial period of the war, about 85 percent of the enterprises of the entire aviation industry moved out of their habitable places. 100 aircraft factories, about 1 million machine tools, more than 500 thousand workers, not counting family members, made a “thrown march” to the eastern regions of the country. And all this took place in the shortest possible time, literally within 10 days, without reducing the level of production of combat aircraft. Thus, only one aircraft manufacturing plant in Moscow has completed the production of high-speed fighters "Moment" up to 20 aircraft per day. It was at the machine that an unprecedented struggle took place for our air superiority, which by the end of the war had become undeniable. And this was one of the decisive contributions to the Victory of the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry, headed by A.I. Shakhurin, who skillfully guides the workers of the industry to achieve great feats of labor. The aviation industry itself had to be evacuated – from Moscow to Kuibyshev. On October 15, 1941, all people's commissariats were ordered to leave the capital within 24 hours.

During the war, the People's Commissar visited evacuated enterprises more than once, solved complex problems, encouraged people, and sometimes even got them delayed wages. Despite the inhuman working conditions and half-starved existence, production of aircraft literally began in the open air at the beginning of 1942 in the East of the country. On January 7, 1942, Shakhurin received a call from Siberia and said loud words: “Receive, Motherland, the first Zaporozhye engine on Siberian soil!” Hearing this, Alexey Ivanovich, far from a sentimental person, felt a spasm in his throat...

The aviation industry experienced rapid technological progress during the war years. And this was not a spontaneous process. He was guided by talented industry leaders and, above all, by People's Commissar Shakhurin. Technology was improved, and the organization of the entire production process at enterprises was improved. For example, the flow method had a great effect. The introduction of flow at aircraft factories and the accompanying rationalization of work made it possible to reduce labor costs for the production of the La-5 fighter by more than 2.5 times, and the Il-2 attack aircraft by 5 times. The cost of production has decreased. Only due to the savings achieved, 8,790 aircraft were produced in 1943 (translated into La-5), which was equal to almost a quarter of the aircraft produced at that time.

In total, during the Great Patriotic War, the aviation industry mastered and put into serial production 25 types of new and modernized types of aircraft and 23 types of aircraft engines. In combat formation Soviet aviation by May 9, 1945, there were 47.3 thousand combat vehicles.

The People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry, headed by its head A.I. Shakhurin did a lot for the air superiority of the Soviet Armed Forces, which brought our Victory closer. We must not forget that the feat of aircraft manufacturers provided a reliable basis for improving aircraft, which subsequently opened up access to space for our country.

...The victorious end of the war was overshadowed by dramatic events for Shakhurin. In 1946, the People's Commissar was repressed in connection with a fabricated “aviation case.” After Stalin's death he was completely rehabilitated. IN 1953–1959 years, the great People's Commissar of the war years worked as First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry, and later as Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Committee on Foreign Economic Relations. After retirement, he wrote a book of memoirs "Wings of Victory". A.I. died Shakhurin in 1975. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.

People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry

Biography

Born on February 12, 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant.

Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in 1932. Since 1933 in military service. In 1933-1938 he served in the research and educational department of the Air Force Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky. Since February 1938, he was a party organizer at the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry plant.

In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions.

In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In 1940-1946, People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. In the summer of 1944, Stalin instructed Shakhurin to examine everything possible, together with the advancing troops, at the German missile site, which was to be captured by the Red Army on Polish territory.

In the verdict, A.I. Shakhurin was accused of the following: “for a long time, he produced aircraft and engines with large design and production defects and, in collusion with the command of the Air Force, put them into service with the Air Force, as a result of which a large number of accidents occurred in aviation units. accidents and catastrophes, pilots were killed, and many defective aircraft accumulated that could not be used in battles with the Germans...".

On May 29, 1953 he was rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.

In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

In 1957 - August 1959, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations.

His son Vladimir (1928-1943) is known for the fact that on July 3, 1943, he shot the daughter of Ambassador Konstantin Umansky Nina and then shot himself.

Awards

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941, for outstanding services in the production of aircraft in difficult wartime conditions, Alexei Ivanovich Shakhurin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal and the Order of Lenin.
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 1st degree, the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and the Order of the Red Star.

Alexey Ivanovich Shakhurin(February 12 (February 25), 1904, Mikhailovskoye village, Podolsk district, Moscow region, - July 3, 1975, Moscow) - People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry (1940-46), Colonel General of the Aviation Engineering Service, Hero of Socialist Labor (1941 ).

Biography

Born on February 12, 1904 in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Podolsk district, Moscow province (now Moscow region). The son of a peasant.

In 1938-1939, first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU (b). He normalized the socio-political situation in the region, established party work after mass repressions. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR since 1938

In 1939-1940, first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

On May 29, 1953 he was rehabilitated and released. On June 2, 1953, all awards and titles were returned.

In 1953-1957, Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

In 1957 - August 1959, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations.

Wife - Sofya Mironovna Lurie (1909-1977), daughter of timber merchant Miron Ionovich Lurie (1874-1966), sister of engineer and scientist in the field of turbine engineering I. M. Lurie (1905-1967). Son Vladimir (1928-1943) is known for the fact that on July 3, 1943, he shot the daughter of Ambassador Konstantin Umansky Nina and then shot himself.

Awards

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 8, 1941, for outstanding services in the field of organizing and implementing mass production of new types of combat aircraft, Alexei Ivanovich Shakhurin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal.
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 1st degree, the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and the Order of the Red Star.

Bibliography

Wings of victory. Ed. 3rd. - M., Politizdat, 1990
Wings of victory. Ed. 2nd, add. - M., Politizdat, 1985
Wings of victory. - M., Politizdat, 1983
Crush of the Luftwaffe. - M., EON, 2004