Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh: biography, awards

Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh - famousdomestic state and public figure, industrialist. His brilliant career, mainly, fell to the Soviet period. Twice from the leadership was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Such important awards he was awarded in 1965 and 1984. In the sixties he headed the Norilsk Metallurgical Combine. He was engaged in politics, was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was a candidate member of the Politburo.

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Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh was born in 1924. He was born in a small village called Ilanskoye in the Yenisei province. Now this is the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Children's years of the hero of our article were nativevillage. His father was a railroad mechanic, his mother a housewife. Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh was raised in a large family - he had three brothers and two sisters.

Vladimir graduated from high school in the small town of Ilanskiy. In the final class he was elected the leader of the Young Pioneer squad, soon after that he became secretary of the Komsomol organization.

The Great Patriotic War

When the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, VladimirIvanovich Dolgikh was 17 years old. He joined the army as a volunteer immediately after graduating from high school. He did not even get in the way that one year was not enough for the draft age.

Already in October 1941, began to engage in military and political training at the school of fighters, which was based in the city of Krasnoyarsk.

At the very end of 1941, he was sent to Moscow,which at that time sought to besiege the Germans. He took part in the counter-offensive operations of the Soviet troops, heroically manifested himself in the battles for the city of Efremov on the territory of the Tula region.

In the army was appointed political instructor of a whole company - helped the post of secretary of the Komsomol organization in peacetime. In the rank of sergeant-major he valiantly fought on the Bryansk front.

In 1943 he was seriously wounded. It happened in the Orel region during a terrible mortar shelling. Almost half a year spent in hospitals, after the release was demobilized from the army. During the war he joined the Communist Party and was in it until its liquidation in 1991.

In a peaceful life

After the road to the front was for himclosed, the future party and public figure entered the mining and metallurgical institute in Irkutsk. Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals. In parallel with his basic studies he was educated at the evening University of Marxism-Leninism, as he planned to continue his social and party career in the future.

The work biography of Dolgikh begins with work onrefinery in Krasnoyarsk, which was specialized in the production of non-ferrous metals. For 9 years he has passed the way from the shift supervisor to the chief engineer.

During the same period I was carried away by scientific experiments. He was published in specialized domestic and foreign journals, he was interested in improving the technologies for extraction and processing of non-ferrous metals.

At the head of the Norilsk Combine

Dolgikh came to the Norilsk Combine in 1958. First worked as chief engineer, and in 1962 was appointed director of the plant.

The name of the hero of our article is literally connected with the second birth of the city of Norilsk. It was he who made the decision, without waiting for the reaction of officials, to start developing new mineral deposits.

Dolgikh achieved the development of the plant: an active development of the Talnakh deposit of copper-nickel ores began.

On his initiative, a modern industrial complex appeared at the plant.

At the head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

In 1969, he stopped working at the Norilsk Combine to lead the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Actually was the first secretary of the district committee of the CPSU.

It was Dolgikh who discovered and developed the powerful economic, scientific, cultural potential of the region. The main thing is to develop the economy in a comprehensive manner.

He was engaged in the introduction of complete cycles of processing of local raw materials. Initiated the creation of an integrated long-term development of a full cycle of local processing.

Member of the Central Committee

He joined the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1971 and remained a member until 1988.

As secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, he headed the department of energy and heavy industry, and went into other branches of the national economy.

At the same time Dolgikh made a significant contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex. In the 1970s and 1980s he created a fuel and energy structure that still functions.

In modern Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he took part in theEconomic reforms aimed at making the reforms go in the right direction. While developing the modernization project, he sought to save the domestic economy.

In 2000 he was elected to the Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel. The board entered into the vote of shareholders, not having a share in the enterprise.

Since then, active social activitiesDolgikh Vladimir Ivanovich is engaged. The Moscow City Council of Veterans, he heads since 2002. In 2008, he was elected chairman of the Moscow Public Chamber.

From 2011 to 2013 he held the status of deputyState Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Promoted from the party "United Russia." Opened the first meeting as the oldest member of parliament. In 2013 he refused the deputy mandate for health reasons. His chair he passed on to politics and teacher Irina Belykh.

Then, in 2013, he received a new appointment Dolgikh Vladimir Ivanovich. The Federation Council formally adopted it as a member of the Council of Federation from the executive branch city ​​of Moscow. In the Federation Council, Dolgikh was exclusively engaged in a bloc of economic issues.

In 2014, I concentrated on working in theregions, especially in the native Krasnoyarsk Territory. In December of the same year he became a freelance adviser to the head of the region, when the governor was Viktor Tolokonsky.

Now the hero of our article is 92 years old. However, he does not sit at home, constantly wants to be useful to the surrounding society. For his devoted work he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland I degree. He received two Orders of the Patriotic War of the first degree, six Orders of Lenin.

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