Alexey Ivanovich Biography

Born on February 12 25 in the village of Mikhailovskoye Podolsky district of the Moscow province now the territory of Moscow. The son of a peasant. From the year he worked as an electrician in Podolsk, with a milling mill at the Manometer plant in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in the year. Member of the CPSU B from the year.

After graduating from the institute, in the year it was distributed by the head of the department of the production of the air factory. From the year - in the Red Army. In the years, he served in the research and educational departments of the N. Air Air Force Academy during the acute shortage of personnel caused by mass repressions of the late 19ths, and was put forward to large leadership posts.

At this post he did a lot of work on the creation of new aviation factories, reconstruction of previously operating, coordination of the work of design bureaus and enterprises, launching new models of aircraft, organizing the operational elimination of defects and deficiencies identified in numerous combat operations of the pre -war period. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Shakhurin organized the urgent evacuation of aviation and related enterprises in the Volga region and Siberia.

At the same time, Stalin set him the task of increasing the production of combat aircraft daily. These tasks were successfully solved: in the voltail quarter of the year, the production of combat aircraft amounted to 27 units per day, in the third quarter of the year in the conditions of the war - 61 combat aircraft per day. For the successful fulfillment of this task, Shakhurin was presented to the highest award of his homeland.

In the future years of the war, under the leadership of the People’s Commissar of Shakhurin, a sharp increase in the release of aircraft has been made. The production of domestic combat aircraft for the war is characterized by the following indicators: the year of July - December - 8.2 thousand and in total for the entire war, 1 thousand were produced. At the same time, a complete replacement of the entire nomenclature of manufactured machines was made, and for some varieties of aircraft - repeatedly.

However, after the war, I. Stalin's attitude towards an outstanding organizer and the head of the defense industry changed dramatically.

According to one version, the reason was the unyielding character of Shakhurin, leading to frequent disputes with the leader and numerous conflicts with industrial and party leaders. The immediate reason was the letter of the son of I. Stalin, Major General of Aviation Vasily Stalin, that he, as a pilot, believes that American planes are better than Soviet. Together with him were arrested and underwent accused in the case of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Chief Marshal A.

Novikov, the chief engineer of the Air Force Colonel General A. Budnikov and G. The rest of the accused received deadlines from 2 to 6 years. Soon after the death of Stalin, in April of the year Shakhurin was released, he left his term completely. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of June 15, he was returned to the military rank of Colonel General of the Engineering and Aviation Service.

In August, he was dismissed. He lived in the city of Gero Moscow. He worked from July to August by a consultant to the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in March - October - scientific consultants and a senior researcher of the All -Union Research Institute of Standardization, from May - August - senior researcher of the All -Union Research Institute for Normalization in Engineering.

He died on July 3. The section 1 was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. Lieutenant General of the Engineering and Aviation Service, Colonel General of the Engineering and Aviation Service, was awarded two Orders of Lenin 8. In Moscow, the Author of the Victory Memoirs of the Victory Memoirs M. The Additions were installed on the building of the N. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.