Vladimir Alexandrovich Zakharov

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Vladimir Alexandrovich Zakharov – a Soviet metallurgist and production leader in the metallurgical industry, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1951). He was born on 1 February 1926 in the village of Bogolyubovka, Orenburg Oblast. From 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, he began his working career as a vocational training instructor at the Magnitogorsk Vocational School. From 1944 to 1967 he worked as an assistant steelworker, steelworker and shift foreman in the open-hearth shop of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. From 1954 to 1957, without interrupting his main employment, he studied at the evening department of the Magnitogorsk Industrial Technical School. He was one of the initiators of the All-Union movement of metallurgists to achieve the maximum production level and conserve resources in the production process.  

In 1951, by the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR "for outstanding fundamental improvements in the technology of metal production" he was awarded the Stalin Prize. In 1952, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "for outstanding achievements in labor" he was awarded the state's highest honor – the Order of Lenin. From 1967 to 1972 he worked as foreman of the mixer department and served as chairman of the shop trade union committee of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. From 1972 to 1977 he served as director of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgists' Recreation Home "Yubileiny». Vladimir Alexandrovich Zakharov died on 18 May 1977 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast.