Yegor Abakumov - progressive coal industry worker

Yegor Trofimovich Abakumov is a well-known active figure in coal production. In his honor the street in Moscow and a microdistrict in Donetsk are named. What is remarkable about Yegor Abakumov, whose memory has survived to this day? Let's find out.

Childhood

Yegor Abakumov, whose biography originates in the city of Donetsk, was born in the distant 1895. The city was then called Yuzovka.

It was a small working village, erected around a metallurgical plant. In those days, the village was divided into two parts: the New World and the Factory side. The central part of the village developed rapidly from the plant to the railway station.

Six years before the birth of Abakumov, two more factories were built near Yuzovka - iron foundries and machine-building plants.

Growing up in a workers' village, Yegor Abakumov has learned heavy factory work since his childhood. He saw the hard work of adults at the blast furnace, smelting hot cast iron.

At the age of twelve, the boy went to work at one of Donbas mines. Hard work under the earth, a strained shift schedule, narrow dark passages - with all this had to face an inexperienced teenager.

Youth

Young Egor met the October Revolution with joy and hope. Finally, an end will come of slave labor, work on selfish, satiated rich people.

Abakumov becomes an active participant in the Civil War, with arms in hand, defending the power of workers and peasants. He sincerely aspires to achieve the triumph of Soviet ideology in his native Donbass.

At the age of twenty-five, the young man receives an honorable appointment - he holds a leading position in the coal industry of the Ukrainian SSR and the Sakhalin Region.

The experience gained in working youth becomes a solid foundation in the beginnings of the young miner, affects his professional skills and abilities.

Mature years

Realizing that special skills are required for leadership work, Yegor Abakumov graduates from the Moscow State Mining University.

In the capital, immediately drew attention to the hard-working young man, sincerely in love with his profession. He is appointed to work on the construction of the Moscow Metro. At the age of thirty-eight Yegor Abakumov is the first deputy head of Metrostroi, and only a couple of years becomes the immediate head of the object under construction.

Then Yegor Trofimovich transferred to the leading work in the Ministry of Coal Industry.

Despite the employment in different types of production, Yegor Abakumov was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the first two convocations.

Inventions

Occupying leading positions, Yegor Trofimovich tried to improve coal-mining production, improve the working conditions of ordinary workers. He was engaged in the development of new technological methods to improve production efficiency.

Along with other educated front-rankers, Yegor Abakumov is the author of new techniques to speed up workings. Thanks to him, a mining combine was developed and developed (a coal cutter, loading and unloading machine, used for loading rock mass into mining vehicles).

Among other things, Yegor Abakumov invented the shield method of tunneling metro tunnels and shafts.

The Great Patriotic War

The struggle against the German fascist invaders Yegor Trofimovich led in the Kuzbass and in Karaganda, raising coal-mining Soviet production in these parts.

For the sake of the industry of the Kuzbass (or Kuznetsk coal basin), Abakumov had to move to the south of Western Siberia, where the world's largest coal deposits are located.

Now coal mining in the Kemerovo region is conducted both by the generally accepted underground method and by more progressive methods - open and hydraulic. On the territory of the basin there are three hydroschemes, twenty-five coal-processing factories, about a hundred underground mines, the majority of which are large mechanized enterprises.

In the modern activity of the Kuzbass there is a great merit of such strong and brave people as Abakumov who stood at the origins of development and formation of the Kuznetsk basin. Despite terrible military years, lack of people and financial resources, such enthusiastic industrialists worked not only for themselves and their contemporaries, but also for us - their future descendants.

After a great victory, Abakumov carried out no less important and important tasks - he rebuilt mines in the Donbas, blown up or flooded by Nazi invaders.

Thanks

Yegor Abakumov, whose awards and rewards corresponded to his significant authoritative work, at the age of fifty two years received an honorable Stalin Prize for the introduction and improvement of the shield method on the construction of the Moscow Metro. This type of tunneling provided a significant increase in the productivity of underground work.

Grateful descendants in honor of Abakumov named the Donetsk mine and Donbas Mining College, as well as one of the streets of the capital of the Russian Federation.

Death

The active and influential industrial worker of Donbass died in Moscow at the age of fifty-eight. Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Yegor Abakumov, whose photo is given in this article, lived a brief but very busy life, having a great beneficial effect on the further industrial activities not only of his native Donbass. His developments were of all-Union significance.