Andrey EfimovichBochkin(October 30, 1906, village of Ievlevo, Tver province - October 16, 1979, Moscow)- the largest hydraulic builder of the 20th century.
Biography
Born into a peasant family. The builder's biography is closely connected with the fate of our Motherland and is typical of major leaders of the Soviet state. In 1920 he joined the Komsomol, and in 1925 - the Bolshevik Party. In those same years, Bochkin studied at the pedagogical college in the village. Prudovo, Tver district, worked as an instructor for the Tver Komsomol committee, and deputy editor of the Tverskaya Derevnya newspaper. In 1927-1930s he held party positions in Vyshny Volochek and Aleysk, West Siberian Territory.
He received his main specialized education at the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation (1937). Since the 4th year of the institute, communist A.E. Bochkin was mobilized by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks to work in the political department of the MTS village. Romashkin (Romashkino, Andreevsky (now Kurmanaevsky) district of the Middle Volga region, where he did a lot for the development of the region, where his formation as a person took place. Andrei Efimovich recalled:
“It happened that I had to sit on a tractor, plow, sow. It’s impossible to tell about everything that was part of our work. I will only say one thing: two years later, people ate not grout, but bread... And this political department experience served as the foundation for my future work - already as a secretary of the district party committee, then as a senior foreman for the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system, which was the first irrigation system in Russia , which consisted of canals and two earthen dams on the Labazy and Domashka rivers.”
In 1937, on a personal application, Andrei Efimovich was sent to management work in hydraulic construction organizations of the Orenburg and Kuibyshev regions.
Bochkin built the Kutuluk irrigation system, the second in Russia. Andrei Efimovich always remembered this construction site. A large dam, a canal, and many structures were built here. Everything was calculated and tried many times. But reality often refutes any calculations. This happened this time too. In the spring, when the canal was opened, it rained for several days, and the reservoir overflowed with water. It was April 16, 1939. The water has risen to a critical level. Concrete slabs moved and the soil was exposed. It was a disaster. But the people did not give up and won. Bochkin himself recalled this episode this way.
“I could barely stay on my feet above the raging stream, I stood on an observation rope bridge thrown from bank to bank. The bridge was thrown from side to side, and I was doused with streams of scalding icy water... We coped with this raging stream, and I realized that the water is so insidious, so incompressible and unyielding that you can expect anything from it. They compress iron, steel and cast iron, but it, malleable and soft, can neither be squeezed out nor driven into a smaller volume. They also say: quieter than water, lower than the grass. There is no more absurd saying."
Bochkin recalled the events of 1939.
Fate was not kind to Andrei Efimovich and gave him cruel trials many times. His beloved little son Volodya died in an icy stream. There were many difficult and dramatic moments, but Andrei Efimovich bravely endured failures.
After Kutuluk, Bochkin was transferred to Moscow as the head of the Glavvodkhoz. This is the central command at the ministry level. Bochkin was 33 years old.
With the beginning of the Patriotic War A.E. Bochkin, like many of his peers, voluntarily joined the Red Army. Having completed a course at the Military Engineering Academy in Frunze, he fought in engineering positions on the Karelian, 2nd Belorussian, 2nd Ukrainian fronts, participated in battles, and amphibious operations to liberate Murmansk, Danzig, Stetin, and Borgholm Island. And Bochkin was always true to himself. So, on the Karelian front, he set up a mock-up of a convoy on the road, which was constantly shot by the German Focke-Wulfs. In the next raid, the German “aces” attacked the model and got caught. The plane was shot down, the Germans were discouraged. Bochkin received an order for this. Or make a hydroelectric power station at the forefront. This is also his job. The Germans never understood where the Russians got their electricity from. And the tunnel that Bochkin decided to dig to the enemy positions. This is 180 meters. They dug a tunnel right into the center of the German defense and detonated explosives there. After this, the line was taken practically without resistance. Bochkin received the Order of the Red Banner for this tunnel.
During the war years, Bochkin did not sit at the headquarters. He was offered to take part in a combat operation as the commander of an airborne engineering and reconnaissance detachment. It was in the Barents Sea. The detachment landed on the enemy shore, carried out reconnaissance in force and conducted reconnaissance of engineering coastal fortifications. On the way back, the boat that Bochkin was in was smashed on a reef. The commissioner who was with him in the boat died, and he ended up on this reef, barely rising above the water. Bochkin recalled:
“I was stuck on the reef in only a tunic, my pants were torn on the ledges of the stone. I was completely wet, everything in me was trembling from the cold and from the heat rising in me. My mouth, skin, eyes - everything gradually became one wound. I had nothing to expect , it was up to me to stop this torture. I waited for the big wave and, opening my mouth wide, walked towards it. But as soon as I began to choke, as soon as the wave swallowed me, something screamed in me: “No!” the reef, the tiny island that is now left to me from the whole world.
And I really wanted to take a sip of unsalted water at least once. I didn't want to eat anymore. I was breaking, shaking, there wasn’t a single cell in me that didn’t hurt. I again opened my mouth and walked towards the wave, and again at the last moment something said in me: “No!” And it pushed me to the surface.
I don't know how many times this happened. Then I completely lost consciousness, and, perhaps, already in oblivion, I tried to end this torment and still could not end it. Could not!
In my breast pocket I had sketches of coastal fortifications, wrapped in oilcloth. This is why I found myself on foreign shores. I was obliged to hand over these papers to the one who sent me, otherwise our reconnaissance, which cost many lives, would lose its meaning.
As I later learned, this lasted fifty-four hours, and every hour on this damned island felt like an eternity."
Bochkin was noticed by our boat, which was looking for the non-returning participants of the amphibious assault. His almost lifeless body was taken to his own, and the doctors managed to save him.
S. Demenchuk’s book “The Chief Hydraulic Builder” tells how Bochkin managed, for the first time in the practice of wars, to build... a front-line waterworks in the swamps to supply electricity to dugouts and trenches! With a wooden turbine, with a panel water intake. The front-line hydroelectric power station, which the Germans became aware of, was so camouflaged that all attempts to detect it with the help of aviation failed.
He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, I and II degrees, the Battle Red Banner, and the medals “For the liberation of the Soviet Arctic” and “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War.”
At the end of the war, as a professional hydraulic engineer, he was invited to the post of head of the Main Water Resources Administration of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR, and headed the construction of the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, as well as Stavropolstroy. In the difficult post-war years, with an almost complete lack of funds and materials, the construction of the most important facilities was nevertheless completed: in June 1948, the Nevinnomyssky canal and the Svistukhinskaya hydroelectric station were put into operation, which provided electricity to the city of Stavropol and surrounding areas. The reliability of these objects has been tested by time. For the Nevinomyssk Canal, the country awarded him the Order of Lenin.
After completion of construction, Bochkin was appointed head of the Water Management Department of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture, and from 1950 to 1953 - head of the construction of the South Ukrainian and North Crimean canals. He was awarded the second Order of Lenin for the Ukrainian and North Crimean canals.
Since the late 1950s, he was put at the head of the famous management of Angaragesstroy. During construction, Andrei Efimovich managed to create a friendly, efficient team and in a short time brought the construction site to the forefront.
This construction project was the ninth major construction project in his biography, for which he received the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor. The completion of his hydro-construction activities was the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
How could A.E. Bochkin cope with work of such a gigantic scale. A construction project such as the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, which, as he himself recalled, employed 1,500 factories, was akin in scale to the production of nuclear weapons by I.V. Kurchatov or missile systems S.V. Korolev.
The head of such giant construction projects must undoubtedly be an outstanding specialist, a brilliant organizer of production, have extensive work experience, be courageous, and be able to take reasonable risks. All this undoubtedly happened. But there were other traits that everyone valued so much.
This is his attitude towards people. The attitude is cordial, respectful, and a constant desire to help a person. And people responded to him with their inspired work and dedicated attitude to work. This is especially evident in his memoirs, which he called “The Story of a Hydraulic Builder. With water, like with fire.” “When you remember what you have gone through,” writes E.A. Bochkin, “you see before you the faces of your comrades, those to whom you owe everything. These are people with whom you worked and fought side by side when it was time to fight. And about “I want to talk about them, and not about myself at all. Everything that happened in my life was determined by them, everything that was accomplished was accomplished thanks to them.” These are the words, and I know for sure that these words are not a beautiful pose, but a position.
During the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, one of the machine operators came up with a good idea on how to obtain a gravel-sand mixture from the bottom of the river. Bochkin accepted the idea and appointed the initiator as chief mechanic. Later he recommended him as the head of the construction of the Vilyuiskaya hydroelectric power station. He built hydroelectric power stations and the city of Mirny with diamond mines. Then this man headed KamAZ. His name is Evgeny Batenchuk. And it all started with Bochkin, his ability to see people.
He arrived at Sayano-Shushenskaya as an honored guest and... an honorary member of the brigade, which was named after him. In 1971, Andrei Efimovich was elected a member of the Technical Council of the USSR Ministry of Energy and Electrification.
Honored Builder of the RSFSR, Lenin Prize laureate A.E. Bochkin was awarded three Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Poems and songs were written about him, films were made, and in 1977 the Bochkin Prize was approved, awarded to the best Komsomol youth group of the Tver Reclamation association.
He died in 1979 and was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
One of the streets in the area of the hydroelectric power station is named after him, on the building No. 1 of which there is an information board. His name is included on the memorial plaque for particularly distinguished construction workers.
Essays
- With water like fire (The story of a hydraulic engineer). - M., 1978.
Literature
- Pokachalova M.D. Andrey Efimovich Bochkin // Siberian Energy Newspaper. 2006. 19 Oct. (No. 19). S. 4.
- Goncharov V. Construction manager (eyewitness memories)
- Goncharov V. His name was simply grandfather // Krasnoyarsk worker. - 2001. - November 2.
- Ivanov L.B. Soviet engineers. - M., 1985.
Andrey Efimovich Bochkin(October 30, 1906, village of Ievlevo, Tver province - October 16, 1979, Moscow) - hydraulic builder. Hero of Socialist Labor (1960), Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1966), Lenin Prize Laureate (1973), Honorary Power Engineer of the USSR (1976). Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925.
Biography
Born into a peasant family, he was the eleventh and last child.
Education
1917 - graduated from a four-year parochial school in the village. Ilgoshchi I supeni.
1923 - study at school of the second level in the village. Ilgoshchi, further - in Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovo.
Labor activity (pre-war)
Andrey Bochkin has been active in propaganda work in the countryside since he was 17 years old. He works in the Komsomol committee in Tver, in the editorial office of the newspapers “Tverskaya Pravda” and “Tverskaya Derevnya”, in the agro-industrial department of the Tver City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and travels around the entire Tver province with propaganda wagons. Then, in 1927-1928 he worked as secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in V. Volochok. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside, A.E. Bochkin, at the party call, participated in the creation of the first collective farms in Western Siberia (1928-1929, 1934-1935). Since 1936, at his personal request, he was transferred to the construction of the nickel plant in Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was secretary of the Nikelstroy party committee, and then senior foreman for the construction of the Nikel - Akkermanovka railway.
1937-1940 - head and chief engineer of the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system (Domashkinskaya and Labazinskaya dams) and the Kutulukskaya dam in the Orenburg region.
1940-1941 - Head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR (oversaw the construction of the Fergana and Nevinnomyssk canals, the Uch-Kurgan reservoir).
The Great Patriotic War
The grave of A.E. Bochkin at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow1945-1949 - Head of the construction of the Nevinnomyssk Canal and Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station in the Stavropol Territory.
1950-1953 - Head of the Main Directorate for the Construction of the South Ukrainian and North Crimean Canals.
1953-1959 - head of AngaraGESstroy for the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.
With the start of construction management, Andrei Efimovich made a number of cardinal decisions for Krasnoyarsk HPP:
- rejection of the lightweight, arch type of dam construction and adoption of the heavy, gravity-monolithic type;
- abandonment of the “continuous” method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and construction using the classic trestle-free method, which ensured the reliability of the structures;
- change in the general construction plan for the city of Divnogorsk;
- blocking the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow:
1963, March 25 - for the first time in winter conditions, the deepest river in Russia, the Yenisei, was blocked in 6.5 hours.
During the period of maximum work, the number of people at the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, together with subcontractors, was more than 21,000 people.
1971 - relieved of duties as head of KrasnoyarskGESstroy.
1979, October 16, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin died in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
During his life, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin built 10 hydraulic structures: the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the Domashkinskaya Dam, the Labazinskaya Dam, the Kutuluk Dam, the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, the South Ukrainian Canal, the North Crimean Canal, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station, and consulted on the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station.
Family
Andrei Efimovich was married to Varvara Fedorovna Bochkina (1902-1975). Two daughters (Valentina, Nadezhda (1948)).
State awards and titles
- Hero of Socialist Labor, gold medal “Hammer and Sickle” (January 11, 1960) - for the introduction of new progressive labor methods and the successes achieved in the construction of the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
- Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1966).
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966).
- Lenin Prize in the field of science and technology (1973) - for the creation of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station, by decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR
- Honorary Power Engineer of the USSR (1976)
- four orders of Lenin
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
- Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
- medals
Popular recognition
1975, May 26 - by order of the Directorate of Main Facilities for the Construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, A.E. Bochkin was enrolled as an honorary carpenter-concrete worker in the Komsomol youth brigade of S. Kolenkov (until 1986). The salary of the honorary member of the brigade was transferred to the account of the Tabatsky orphanage in the Beysky district, Khakassia.
1980 - in Divnogorsk, Central Street was renamed into A. E. Bochkin Street.
1996 - in Irkutsk, Ogni Komunizma street was renamed Bochkina street.
2006 - in Divnogorsk, vocational school No. 42, on the initiative of the team, was named after the hydraulic builder A.E. Bochkin, in honor of his 100th birthday.
2008, February 2 - a bronze monument to A.E. Bochkin, sculptor Yu. Ishkhanov, was unveiled in Divnogorsk.
Publications
- Bochkin A. E. With water, like with fire: (story of a hydraulic builder) / [Lit. recording by Y. Kapusto]. - M.: Soviet Russia, 1978. - 190 p.
- Bochkin A. E., Grigoriev Yu. A., Dolginin E. A. Concrete work on the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. - M.: Stroyizdat, 1977. - 127 p.
- Bochkin A. E., Dolginin E. A., Liskun E. E. Organization of construction and technical and economic indicators of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station // Hydrotechnical construction, 1972, No. 9, pp. 16-19.
- Bochkin A. E. At the origins of the great construction (notes of the builder) / [Lit. recording by B. Serman]. - Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1951. - 40 p.
Documentary publications about him
- "Our Bochkin." Personality. Hydrobuilder. Legend. Collection of memories. - Blagoveshchensk: Far Eastern Publishing House "Amur", 2006-304 p.
- Beketov V. P. If the stars light up: (About A.E. Bochkin). - M.: Politizdat, 1977. - 270 p.
- Goncharov V. Head of construction // Sov. Russia. - 2001. - August 25 - P. 5.
- Grechushnikov A. A man of duty and honor // Lights of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
- Demenchuk G. S. Chief hydraulic engineer. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk book. publishing house, 1982. - 48 p.
- Zalyubovskaya M. Andrey Bochkin // Soviet engineers: collection / Comp. A. B. Ivanov. Series of biographies: Lives of remarkable people. - M.: Mol. Guard, 1985. - P. 69 - 75.
- Zalyubovskaya M. Destroy - destroyed // Mirror of the Week (Ukraine) No. 28, July 11, 1998.
- Zyabrev A. Bochkin saved Krasnoyarsk // One Hundred Famous Krasnoyarsk Residents. - Krasnoyarsk, 2003. - P. 243-247.
- Kazyurin I. Construction commander // Lights of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
- Katser J. W. Conquest of the Yenisei: on the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station. - M.: Politizdat, 1973. - 111 p.
- Levchenko I. People, assault, victory: [heroic story about the builders of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station]. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Book Publishing House, 1964. - 108 p.
- Naimushin I. His name was simply Grandfather // Krasnoyar. worker. - 2001. - November 2. - P. 8-9: photo.
- Polevoy B. N. The tenth sea of engineer Bochkin. - M: Soviet Russia, 1974. - 60 p.
- Rossovsky V. P."Heroes of Labor". Biographical reference book. - Kaluga: Golden Alley, 1999. - 256 p. Page 38-39.
- Creators: Participants in the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the city of Divnogorsk 1955-1972 / Comp. I. G. Gulyaev, - Krasnoyarsk: Class, 2011-400 p.
- Builder Andrey Bochkin: [about the award Lenin. Prize 1973 for the creation of Krasnoyar. HPP] // Pravda. - 1973. - April 26.
- Fedorov I. G. 100 years since the birth of the construction manager of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, Hero of Socialist Labor Andrei Efimovich Bochkin // Our Krasnoyarsk Land: calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2006. - Krasnoyarsk, 2005. - P. 101-104.
Documentaries
Works of art where the prototype of the hero was A. E. Bochkin
- Polevoy B. N. On the wild coast. - M.: Soviet writer, 1963. - 614 p.
- Taurin F. N. Angara. - M.: Soviet writer, 1961. - 576 p.
- Tvardovsky A. T. Beyond the distance is the distance // Poems. Poems. - M.: BVL, 1971. - 688 p.
Feature films where the prototype of the hero was A. E. Bochkin
- “On the Wild Coast”, USSR, 1966
- , Mosfilm, 1982
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I showed her my defense and, to my greatest surprise, she did it very easily, without even thinking. I was very happy, as this made our “hike” much easier.
“Well, are you ready?” Stella smiled cheerfully, apparently to cheer her up.
We plunged into the sparkling darkness and, after a few short seconds, we were already “floating” along the silvery path of the Astral level...
“It’s very beautiful here...” Isolde whispered, “but I saw it in another, not so bright place...”
“It’s here too... Just a little lower,” I reassured her. - You'll see, now we'll find him.
We “slipped” a little deeper, and I was ready to see the usual “terribly oppressive” lower astral reality, but, to my surprise, nothing like that happened... We found ourselves in a rather pleasant, but, indeed, very gloomy and what It's a sad landscape. Heavy, muddy waves splashed on the rocky shore of the dark blue sea... Lazyly “chasing” one after another, they “knocked” on the shore and reluctantly, slowly, returned back, dragging behind them gray sand and small, black, shiny pebbles. Farther away could be seen a majestic, huge, dark green mountain, the top of which shyly hid behind gray, swollen clouds. The sky was heavy, but not frightening, completely covered with gray clouds. Along the shore, in places, scant dwarf bushes of some unfamiliar plants grew. Again, the landscape was gloomy, but quite “normal”, in any case, it resembled one of those that could be seen on the ground on a rainy, very cloudy day... And that “screaming horror”, like the others we saw on on this “floor” of the place, he did not inspire us...
Born into a peasant family, he was the eleventh and last child.
Education
1917 - graduated from a four-year parochial school in the village. Ilgoshchi I supeni.
1923 - study at school of the second level in the village. Ilgoshchi, further - in Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovo.
Labor activity (pre-war)
Andrey Bochkin has been active in propaganda work in the countryside since he was 17 years old. He works in the Komsomol committee in Tver, in the editorial office of the newspapers “Tverskaya Pravda” and “Tverskaya Derevnya”, in the agro-industrial department of the Tver City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and travels around the entire Tver province with propaganda wagons. Then, in 1927-1928 he worked as secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in V. Volochok. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside, A.E. Bochkin, at the party call, participated in the creation of the first collective farms in Western Siberia (1928-1929, 1934-1935). Since 1936, at his personal request, he was transferred to the construction of the nickel plant in Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was secretary of the Nikelstroy party committee, and then senior foreman for the construction of the Nikel - Akkermanovka railway.
1937-1940 - head and chief engineer of the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system (Domashkinskaya and Labazinskaya dams) and the Kutulukskaya dam in the Orenburg region.
1940-1941 - Head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR (oversaw the construction of the Fergana and Nevinnomyssk canals, the Uch-Kurgan reservoir).
The Great Patriotic War
1953-1959 - head of AngaraGESstroy for the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.
With the start of construction management, Andrei Efimovich made a number of cardinal decisions for Krasnoyarsk HPP:
- rejection of the lightweight, arch type of dam construction and adoption of the heavy, gravity-monolithic type;
- abandonment of the “continuous” method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and construction using the classic trestle-free method, which ensured the reliability of the structures;
- change in the general construction plan for the city of Divnogorsk;
- blocking the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow:
1963, March 25 - for the first time in winter conditions, the deepest river in Russia, the Yenisei, was blocked in 6.5 hours.
During the period of maximum work, the number of people at the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, together with subcontractors, was more than 21,000 people.
1971 - relieved of duties as head of KrasnoyarskGESstroy.
1979, October 16, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin died in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
During his life, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin built 10 hydraulic structures: DneproGES, Domashkinskaya Dam, Labazinskaya Dam, Kutulukskaya Dam, Nevinnomyssk Canal and Svistukhinskaya HPP, South Ukrainian Canal, North Crimean Canal, Irkutsk HPP, Krasnoyarsk HPP, advised -
Andrey Efimovich Bochkin(October 30, 1906, village of Ievlevo, Tver province - October 16, 1979, Moscow) - hydraulic builder. Hero of Socialist Labor (1960), Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1966), Lenin Prize Laureate (1973), Honorary Power Engineer of the USSR (1976). Member of the CPSU(b) since 1925.
Biography
Born into a peasant family, he was the eleventh and last child.
Education
1917 - graduated from a four-year parochial school in the village. Ilgoshchi I supeni.
1923 - study at school of the second level in the village. Ilgoshchi, further - in Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovo.
Labor activity (pre-war)
Andrey Bochkin has been active in propaganda work in the countryside since he was 17 years old. He works in the Komsomol committee in Tver, in the editorial office of the newspapers “Tverskaya Pravda” and “Tverskaya Derevnya”, in the agro-industrial department of the Tver City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and travels around the entire Tver province with propaganda wagons. Then, in 1927-1928 he worked as secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in V. Volochok. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside, A.E. Bochkin, at the party call, participated in the creation of the first collective farms in Western Siberia (1928-1929, 1934-1935). Since 1936, at his personal request, he was transferred to the construction of the nickel plant in Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was secretary of the Nikelstroy party committee, and then senior foreman for the construction of the Nikel - Akkermanovka railway.
1937-1940 - head and chief engineer of the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system (Domashkinskaya and Labazinskaya dams) and the Kutulukskaya dam in the Orenburg region.
1940-1941 - Head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR (oversaw the construction of the Fergana and Nevinnomyssk canals, the Uch-Kurgan reservoir).
The Great Patriotic War
1953-1959 - head of AngaraGESstroy for the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.
With the start of construction management, Andrei Efimovich made a number of cardinal decisions for Krasnoyarsk HPP:
- rejection of the lightweight, arch type of dam construction and adoption of the heavy, gravity-monolithic type;
- abandonment of the “continuous” method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and construction using the classic trestle-free method, which ensured the reliability of the structures;
- change in the general construction plan for the city of Divnogorsk;
- blocking the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow:
1963, March 25 - for the first time in winter conditions, the deepest river in Russia, the Yenisei, was blocked in 6.5 hours.
During the period of maximum work, the number of people at the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, together with subcontractors, was more than 21,000 people.
1971 - relieved of duties as head of KrasnoyarskGESstroy.
1979, October 16, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin died in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
During his life, Andrei Efimovich Bochkin built 10 hydraulic structures: the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the Domashkinskaya Dam, the Labazinskaya Dam, the Kutuluk Dam, the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, the South Ukrainian Canal, the North Crimean Canal, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station, and consulted on the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station.
Family
Andrei Efimovich was married to Varvara Fedorovna Bochkina (1902-1975). Two daughters (Valentina, Nadezhda (1948)).
State awards and titles
- Hero of Socialist Labor, gold medal “Hammer and Sickle” (January 11, 1960) - for the introduction of new progressive labor methods and the successes achieved in the construction of the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
- Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1966).
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966).
- Lenin Prize in the field of science and technology (1973) - for the creation of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station, by decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR
- Honorary Power Engineer of the USSR (1976)
- four orders of Lenin
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
- Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
- medals
Popular recognition
1975, May 26 - by order of the Directorate of Main Facilities for the Construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, A.E. Bochkin was enrolled as an honorary carpenter-concrete worker in the Komsomol youth brigade of S. Kolenkov (until 1986). The salary of the honorary member of the brigade was transferred to the account of the Tabatsky orphanage in the Beysky district, Khakassia.
1980 - in Divnogorsk, Central Street was renamed into A. E. Bochkin Street.
1996 - in Irkutsk, Ogni Komunizma street was renamed Bochkina street.
2006 - in Divnogorsk, vocational school No. 42, on the initiative of the team, was named after the hydraulic builder A.E. Bochkin, in honor of his 100th birthday.
2008, February 2 - a bronze monument to A.E. Bochkin, sculptor Yu. Ishkhanov, was unveiled in Divnogorsk.
Publications
- Bochkin A. E. With water, like with fire: (story of a hydraulic builder) / [Lit. recording by Y. Kapusto]. - M.: Soviet Russia, 1978. - 190 p.
- Bochkin A. E., Grigoriev Yu. A., Dolginin E. A. Concrete work on the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. - M.: Stroyizdat, 1977. - 127 p.
- Bochkin A. E., Dolginin E. A., Liskun E. E. Organization of construction and technical and economic indicators of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station // Hydrotechnical construction, 1972, No. 9, pp. 16-19.
- Bochkin A. E. At the origins of the great construction (notes of the builder) / [Lit. recording by B. Serman]. - Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1951. - 40 p.
Documentary publications about him
- "Our Bochkin." Personality. Hydrobuilder. Legend. Collection of memories. - Blagoveshchensk: Far Eastern Publishing House "Amur", 2006-304 p.
- Beketov V. P. If the stars light up: (About A.E. Bochkin). - M.: Politizdat, 1977. - 270 p.
- Goncharov V. Head of construction // Sov. Russia. - 2001. - August 25 - P. 5.
- Grechushnikov A. A man of duty and honor // Lights of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
- Demenchuk G. S. Chief hydraulic engineer. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk book. publishing house, 1982. - 48 p.
- Zalyubovskaya M. Andrey Bochkin // Soviet engineers: collection / Comp. A. B. Ivanov. Series of biographies: Lives of remarkable people. - M.: Mol. Guard, 1985. - P. 69 - 75.
- Zalyubovskaya M. Destroy - destroyed // Mirror of the Week (Ukraine) No. 28, July 11, 1998.
- Zyabrev A. Bochkin saved Krasnoyarsk // One Hundred Famous Krasnoyarsk Residents. - Krasnoyarsk, 2003. - P. 243-247.
- Kazyurin I. Construction commander // Lights of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
- Katser J. W. Conquest of the Yenisei: on the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station. - M.: Politizdat, 1973. - 111 p.
- Levchenko I. People, assault, victory: [heroic story about the builders of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station]. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Book Publishing House, 1964. - 108 p.
- Naimushin I. His name was simply Grandfather // Krasnoyar. worker. - 2001. - November 2. - P. 8-9: photo.
- Polevoy B. N. The tenth sea of engineer Bochkin. - M: Soviet Russia, 1974. - 60 p.
- Rossovsky V. P."Heroes of Labor". Biographical reference book. - Kaluga: Golden Alley, 1999. - 256 p. Page 38-39.
- Creators: Participants in the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station and the city of Divnogorsk 1955-1972 / Comp. I. G. Gulyaev, - Krasnoyarsk: Class, 2011-400 p.
- Builder Andrey Bochkin: [about the award Lenin. Prize 1973 for the creation of Krasnoyar. HPP] // Pravda. - 1973. - April 26.
- Fedorov I. G. 100 years since the birth of the construction manager of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, Hero of Socialist Labor Andrei Efimovich Bochkin // Our Krasnoyarsk Land: calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2006. - Krasnoyarsk, 2005. - P. 101-104.
Documentaries
Works of art where the prototype of the hero was A. E. Bochkin
- Polevoy B. N. On the wild coast. - M.: Soviet writer, 1963. - 614 p.
- Taurin F. N. Angara. - M.: Soviet writer, 1961. - 576 p.
- Tvardovsky A. T. Beyond the distance is the distance // Poems. Poems. - M.: BVL, 1971. - 688 p.
Feature films where the prototype of the hero was A. E. Bochkin
- “On the Wild Coast”, USSR, 1966
- , Mosfilm, 1982
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Rostov has not experienced such pleasure from music for a long time as on this day. But as soon as Natasha finished her barcarolle, reality came back to him again. He left without saying anything and went downstairs to his room. A quarter of an hour later the old count, cheerful and satisfied, arrived from the club. Nikolai, hearing his arrival, went to him.- Well, did you have fun? - said Ilya Andreich, smiling joyfully and proudly at his son. Nikolai wanted to say “yes,” but he couldn’t: he almost burst into tears. The Count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s condition.
“Oh, inevitably!” - Nikolai thought for the first and last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, such that he seemed disgusted to himself, as if he was asking the carriage to go to the city, he told his father.
- Dad, I came to you for business. I forgot about it. I need money.
“That’s it,” said the father, who was in a particularly cheerful spirit. - I told you that it won’t be enough. Is it a lot?
“A lot,” Nikolai said, blushing and with a stupid, careless smile, which for a long time later he could not forgive himself. – I lost a little, that is, a lot, even a lot, 43 thousand.
- What? Who?... You're kidding! - shouted the count, suddenly turning apoplectic red in the neck and back of his head, like old people blush.
“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nikolai.
“Well!...” said the old count, spreading his arms and sank helplessly onto the sofa.
- What to do! Who hasn't this happened to? - said the son in a cheeky, bold tone, while in his soul he considered himself a scoundrel, a scoundrel who could not atone for his crime with his whole life. He would have liked to kiss his father's hands, on his knees to ask for his forgiveness, but he said in a careless and even rude tone that this happens to everyone.
Count Ilya Andreich lowered his eyes when he heard these words from his son and hurried, looking for something.
“Yes, yes,” he said, “it’s difficult, I’m afraid, it’s difficult to get... never happened to anyone!” yes, who hasn’t happened to... - And the count glanced briefly into his son’s face and walked out of the room... Nikolai was preparing to fight back, but he never expected this.
- Daddy! pa... hemp! - he shouted after him, sobbing; excuse me! “And, grabbing his father’s hand, he pressed his lips to it and began to cry.
While the father was explaining to his son, an equally important explanation was taking place between the mother and daughter. Natasha ran to her mother excitedly.
- Mom!... Mom!... he did it to me...
- What did you do?
- I did, I proposed. Mother! Mother! - she shouted. The Countess could not believe her ears. Denisov proposed. To whom? This tiny girl Natasha, who had recently been playing with dolls and was now taking lessons.
- Natasha, that’s complete nonsense! – she said, still hoping that it was a joke.
- Well, that's nonsense! “I’m telling you the truth,” Natasha said angrily. – I came to ask what to do, and you tell me: “nonsense”...
The Countess shrugged.
“If it’s true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he’s a fool, that’s all.”
“No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously.
- Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, you’re in love, so marry him! – the countess said, laughing angrily. - With God blessing!
- No, mom, I’m not in love with him, I must not be in love with him.
- Well, tell him so.
- Mom, are you angry? You’re not angry, my dear, what’s my fault?
- No, what about it, my friend? If you want, I’ll go and tell him,” said the countess, smiling.
- No, I’ll do it myself, just teach me. Everything is easy for you,” she added, responding to her smile. - If only you could see how he told me this! After all, I know that he didn’t mean to say this, but he said it by accident.
- Well, you still have to refuse.
- No, don't. I feel so sorry for him! He is so cute.
- Well, then accept the offer. “And then it’s time to get married,” the mother said angrily and mockingly.
- No, mom, I feel so sorry for him. I don't know how I'll say it.
“You don’t have anything to say, I’ll say it myself,” said the countess, indignant that they dared to look at this little Natasha as if she were big.
“No, no way, I myself, and you listen at the door,” and Natasha ran through the living room into the hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair, by the clavichord, covering his face with his hands. He jumped up at the sound of her light steps.
“Natalie,” he said, approaching her with quick steps, “decide my fate.” It's in your hands!
- Vasily Dmitrich, I feel so sorry for you!... No, but you are so nice... but don’t... this... otherwise I will always love you.
Denisov bent over her hand, and she heard strange sounds, incomprehensible to her. She kissed his black, matted, curly head. At this time, the hasty noise of the countess's dress was heard. She approached them.
“Vasily Dmitrich, I thank you for the honor,” said the countess in an embarrassed voice, but which seemed stern to Denisov, “but my daughter is so young, and I thought that you, as a friend of my son, would turn to me first.” In this case, you would not put me in the need of refusal.
“Athena,” Denisov said with downcast eyes and a guilty look, he wanted to say something else and faltered.
Natasha could not calmly see him so pitiful. She began to sob loudly.
“Countess, I am guilty before you,” Denisov continued in a broken voice, “but know that I adore your daughter and your entire family so much that I would give two lives...” He looked at the countess and, noticing her stern face... “Well, goodbye, Athena,” he said, kissed her hand and, without looking at Natasha, walked out of the room with quick, decisive steps.
The next day, Rostov saw off Denisov, who did not want to stay in Moscow for another day. Denisov was seen off at the gypsies by all his Moscow friends, and he did not remember how they put him in the sleigh and how they took him to the first three stations.
After Denisov’s departure, Rostov, waiting for the money that the old count could not suddenly collect, spent another two weeks in Moscow, without leaving the house, and mainly in the young ladies’ room.
Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than before. She seemed to want to show him that his loss was a feat for which she now loves him even more; but Nikolai now considered himself unworthy of her.
He filled the girls' albums with poems and notes, and without saying goodbye to any of his acquaintances, finally sending all 43 thousand and receiving Dolokhov's signature, he left at the end of November to catch up with the regiment, which was already in Poland.
After his explanation with his wife, Pierre went to St. Petersburg. In Torzhok there were no horses at the station, or the caretaker did not want them. Pierre had to wait. Without undressing, he lay down on a leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in warm boots on this table and thought.
– Will you order the suitcases to be brought in? Make the bed, would you like some tea? – asked the valet.
Pierre did not answer because he did not hear or see anything. He began to think at the last station and continued to think about the same thing - about something so important that he did not pay any attention to what was happening around him. Not only was he not interested in the fact that he would arrive in St. Petersburg later or earlier, or whether he would or would not have a place to rest at this station, but it was still, in comparison with the thoughts that occupied him now, whether he would stay for a few days. hours or a lifetime at this station.
The caretaker, the caretaker, the valet, the woman with Torzhkov sewing came into the room, offering their services. Pierre, without changing his position with his legs raised, looked at them through his glasses, and did not understand what they could need and how they could all live without resolving the questions that occupied him. And he was preoccupied with the same questions from the very day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and spent the first, painful, sleepless night; only now, in the solitude of the journey, did they take possession of him with special power. No matter what he started to think about, he returned to the same questions that he could not solve and could not stop asking himself. It was as if the main screw on which his whole life was held had turned in his head. The screw did not go in further, did not go out, but spun, not grabbing anything, still on the same groove, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
The caretaker came in and humbly began to ask His Excellency to wait only two hours, after which he would give courier for His Excellency (what will happen, will happen). The caretaker was obviously lying and only wanted to get extra money from the passerby. “Was it bad or good?” Pierre asked himself. “For me it’s good, for another person passing through it’s bad, but for him it’s inevitable, because he has nothing to eat: he said that an officer beat him for this. And the officer nailed him because he needed to go faster. And I shot at Dolokhov because I considered myself insulted, and Louis XVI was executed because he was considered a criminal, and a year later they killed those who executed him, also for something. What's wrong? What well? What should you love, what should you hate? Why live, and what am I? What is life, what is death? What force controls everything?” he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, not a logical answer, not to these questions at all. This answer was: “If you die, everything will end. You’ll die and find out everything, or you’ll stop asking.” But it was also scary to die.
The Torzhkov merchant offered her goods in a shrill voice, especially goat shoes. “I have hundreds of rubles that I have nowhere to put, and she stands in a torn fur coat and timidly looks at me,” thought Pierre. And why is this money needed? Can this money add exactly one hair to her happiness, peace of mind? Could anything in the world make her and me less susceptible to evil and death? Death, which will end everything and which should come today or tomorrow, is still in a moment, in comparison with eternity.” And he again pressed the screw that was not gripping anything, and the screw still turned in the same place.
His servant handed him a book of the novel in letters to m m e Suza, cut in half. [Madame Suza.] He began to read about the suffering and virtuous struggle of some Amelie de Mansfeld. [Amalia Mansfeld] “And why did she fight against her seducer,” he thought, “when she loved him? God could not put into her soul aspirations that were contrary to His will. My ex-wife didn't fight and maybe she was right. Nothing has been found, Pierre told himself again, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And this is the highest degree of human wisdom."
On Sunday, October 30, you and I will celebrate the anniversary of a unique person, with whose name the history of the formation of our city and the development of the energy industry not only in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, but throughout the country as a whole are inextricably linked. This day marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous hydraulic builder, Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize laureate Andrei Efimovich Bochkin. This legendary man can undoubtedly be classified as one of those people whose deeds determined not only the fate of our time, but also the future of Russia for many years to come. Such people have always been a reliable support of the state.
It is unlikely that anyone will argue that life is measured not by the number of years lived, but by its meaning. Why have people been very sensitive to “round dates” in their own lives for many centuries? Probably because age is a victory over existence. It seems that just recently we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Andrei Efimovich Bochkin on a grand scale. And now another anniversary is approaching. But even now, after a while, his name remains widely known. They haven't forgotten about him. He is remembered by his colleagues, former comrades and descendants of hydraulic engineers. In the center of the city there is a memorial complex, where on a high pedestal a bronze Bochkin (two human heights) “looks over” the surroundings of Divnogoria. Two educational institutions in the city of Divnogorsk are named after him (students of the Divnogorsk Hydropower Technical School and Gymnasium No. 10 proudly call themselves Bochkinites). Isn't this a victory over eternity?
Of course, the editorial office of the newspaper “Yenisei Lights” could not stay away from the significant date. On the eve of the anniversary of the great hydraulic builder, with the support and help of veterans of Krasnoyarskgesstroy, we decided to remind our readers what he was like - Andrei Efimovich Bochkin.
MAIN LIFE MILESTONES of A.E. BOCHKINA
10.30.1906 – In the village of Ivlevo, Ilgoshin volost, Tver district, a son, Andrei, was born into a poor peasant family of the Bochkins.
1920 – Joined the ranks of the RKSM, organized a Komsomol cell in the village of Ilgoshi and was elected its chairman.
1925 – Joined the All-Union Bolshevik Communist Party
1929 – Party member student
Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering, Moscow Institute of Water Management. He completed his practical training at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
1937 – 1940 – Head and chief engineer of the construction of irrigation systems and dams at Buzulukstroy, then Kutulukstroy, where irrigation systems were created for the first time in the RSFSR.
1940 – 1941 – Head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR.
1941 – 1945 – Participant of the Great Patriotic War.
1945 – 1949 – Head of construction of the Nevinnomyssk Canal and Svistukhinskaya hydroelectric station in the Stavropol Territory.
1953 – 1959 – Head of construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.
1959 December 10 – Appointed head of the Krasnoyarsk Gesstroy Construction Department.
1960 – Awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
1973 – Awarded the Lenin Prize in the field of science and technology for the creation of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
1979 October 16 – A.E. died in Moscow. Bochkin. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
Many books have been written about the great life of Andrei Efimovich Bochkin, filled with various events. Unfortunately, the newspaper format does not allow us to talk about it in full. Anyone who was closely acquainted with Andrei Efimovich knows how sharp the turns on his life’s path sometimes awaited him. Not everyone can withstand something like this. Bochkin's contemporaries called him Pavka Korchagin among themselves. And the hydraulic builder himself expressed himself this way about his fate: “...Everything that happened to me in life turned out to be for the good... Now, when I look back at the path I have traveled, consisting of many assignments, in which we did not always take into account what I want, from the many bumps I received deservedly and undeservedly, it begins to seem to me that I was cooked, hardened and tested according to a special program compiled just for me, with a predetermined goal: everything that I experienced later turned out to be so necessary ..."
DIVNOGORSKY PAGE
It was here, in Divnogorsk, that Bochkin’s outstanding organizational talent was fully demonstrated.
Having headed the construction at a critical moment, when the choice of the type of dam by Moscow specialists was inclined to the arched “lightweight and openwork”, Andrei Efimovich, showing statesmanship and remarkable will in defending his position, managed to convince the commission to build a heavy dam. Monolithic concrete - gravity type. A.E. Bochkin devoted himself entirely to his work, to fulfilling the task assigned to him by the party and the government - to reliably and on time build the most powerful hydroelectric power station in the world on the Yenisei, but at the same time he was attentive to the needs of the builders. All the Divnogorsk residents, “both young and old,” respectfully called him Grandfather. In 1971, due to health reasons, he was forced to take a well-deserved rest, just a short time before the commissioning of the KHPP. On July 2, 1971, the Divnogorsk City Council of Workers' Deputies awarded A.E. Bochkin received the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Divnogorsk,” and a few days later he left for Moscow, as it turned out, forever... On October 16, 1979, the heart of the outstanding hydraulic engineer stopped beating.
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW!
For military feats during the Great Patriotic War he was awarded:
– Order of the Red Banner;
– Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree;
– Order of the Patriotic War, II degree;
– medal “For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War”;
– medal “For the Defense of the Arctic”.
For honest and conscientious work A.E. Bochkin was awarded:
– four (!) Orders of Lenin;
– Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
– many medals;
- awarded the Lenin Prize.
ABOUT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE BOOK AND THE WORD
From his deep youth, Andrei Efimovich respected the printed word. As a gray-haired old man, he recalled “the days of greatest happiness - reading newspapers and books... in an old park... with half-starved friends from the boarding school.” His profession as a hydraulic engineer did not keep him away from books and the press. On the contrary, A.E. Bochkin, a subtle psychologist and ideologist, directed the powerful force of newspaper, magazine, book lines, broadcast, photo and film cameras to create a team of Krasnoyarskgesstroy builders, instilling in the builders a sense of personal responsibility and dignity for what they have done: everyone, everyone - read, listen, watch - We, builders, have the strength to fight the giant Yenisei, build the world's greatest hydroelectric power station, and give energy to the Motherland. Andrei Efimovich never singled himself out personally. In his vocabulary, he most often used the unifying “We”. There was a close relationship between the book and Bochkin throughout his life. He admired the works of poets and could recite entire poems by heart. He was sincerely interested in the work of the literary circle and personally initiated the appearance of the first libraries and bookstore at the construction site.
FAVORITE HOBBY – SONG!
Andrei Efimovich knew how and loved to sing sincere and joyful Russian songs. Maybe his mother instilled his love for them. It is possible that this kind and bright hobby arose in him from his school days.
Despite the hard work, sleepless nights, business trips, Andrei Efimovich found the opportunity to go on vacation with the builders - to sing songs, have fun around the fire with the already conquered Yenisei splashing at his feet.
Prepared by Olga GAMANOVICH
(the publication uses materials from the book “Creators” (A.V. Gulyaev, I.G. Fedorov)
Photos courtesy of the Divnogorsk City Museum)