Andrey Bochkin. Bochkin Andrey Efimovich

29.10.2020

Andrey EfimovichBochkin(October 30, 1906, the village of Ievlevo, Tver province - October 16, 1979, Moscow)- the largest hydro-builder of the 20th century.

Biography

Born into a peasant family. The biography of the builder is closely connected with the fate of our Motherland and is typical for 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 with. Prudovo, Tver district, worked as an instructor at the Tver Komsomol Ukom, deputy editor of the Tverskaya Derevnya newspaper. In 1927-1930 he occupied party posts in Vyshny Volochek and Aleysk in the West Siberian Territory.

Main special education received at the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation (1937). From the 4th year of the institute, the communist A.E. Bochkin was mobilized by the Central Committee of the CPSU / b / to work in the political department of the MTS with. Romashkin (Romashkino Andreevsky (now Kurmanaevsky) District of the Middle Volga Territory, where he did a lot for the development of the region, where he became a personality. Andrey Efimovich recalled:

“Sometimes I had to get on a tractor, plow, sow. Not to tell about everything that was included in our work. I will only say one thing: two years later, people ate not mash, but bread ... And this political department experience served as the foundation for my future work - already as secretary of the district committee of the party, then senior superintendent of the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system, which was the first irrigation system in Russia , which consisted of canals and two earth dams on the Labazy and Domashka rivers.

In 1937, on a personal request, Andrey Efimovich was sent to a managerial job in the hydro-construction organizations of the Orenburg and Kuibyshev regions.

Bochkin built the Kutuluk irrigation system, the second in Russia. Andrey Efimovich always remembered this construction site. Here was built big dam, canal, many facilities. Everything has been tried and tested over and over again. But reality often refutes any calculations. That's what happened this time as well. 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 from their place, soil was exposed. It was a disaster. But people did not give up and won. Bochkin himself recalled this episode as follows.

“I could hardly keep my feet above the raging stream, I stood on the observation cable bridge, thrown from shore to shore. The bridge was tossed from side to side, and I was doused with streams of burning icy water ... We coped with this raging stream, and I realized that water is so insidious, so incompressible and uncompromising that everything can be expected from it. They compress iron, steel and cast iron, but it, pliable and soft, cannot be either squeezed or driven into a smaller volume. And they say: quieter than water, lower than grass. There is no more absurd saying,

Bochkin recalled the events of 1939.

Fate was not favorable to Andrei Efimovich, gave him severe trials and many times. His beloved little son Volodya died in an icy stream. There were many difficult and dramatic moments, but Andrei Efimovich steadfastly endured failure.

After Kutuluk, Bochkin was transferred to Moscow as the head of the Glavvodkhoz. This is the head office at the ministry level. Bochkin was 33 years old.

Since the beginning Patriotic War A.E. Bochkin, like many of his peers, voluntarily joined the Red Army. Having completed the course of the Military Engineering Academy in Frunze, he fought in engineering positions on the Karelian, 2nd Belorussian, 2nd Ukrainian fronts, participated in battles, amphibious operations to liberate Murmansk, Danzig, Stetin, Borgolm Island. And always Bochkin was true to himself. So, on the Karelian front, he arranged a model of a wagon train on the road, which was constantly shot by the German "Focke-Wulfs". In the next raid, the German "aces" attacked the mock-up and got caught on it. 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. It's 180 meters. The tunnel was dug right into the center of the German defense and explosives were detonated there. After that, the line was taken almost without resistance. Bochkin received the Order of the Red Banner for this tunnel.

During the war years, Bochkin could 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 coast, carried out reconnaissance in force and conducted reconnaissance of engineering coastal fortifications. On the way back, the boat in which Bochkin was was wrecked 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 one 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. 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 a 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 up, something screamed in me: "No!" And I returned to reef, a tiny island that is now left to me from the whole world.

And so I wanted at least once to take a sip of unsalted water. I didn't want to eat anymore. I was breaking, shaking, there was not a single cell in me that would not hurt. I opened my mouth again and walked towards the wave, and again at the last moment something said in me: "No!" And 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 these torments, and yet I could not end them. Could not!

In my breast pocket I had sketches of coastal fortifications wrapped in oilcloth. For this reason, I found myself on foreign shores. I had to hand over these papers to the one who sent me, otherwise our intelligence, which cost many lives, would lose its meaning.

As I later found out, it lasted fifty-four hours, and every hour on this accursed island was like an eternity.

Bochkin was noticed by our boat, which was looking for non-returning participants in 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 hydroelectric complex in swamps for wiring 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 disguised at the same time that all attempts to detect it with the help of aviation failed.

He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degree, the Red Banner of War, medals "For the liberation of the Soviet Arctic", "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 Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat Agriculture USSR, led the construction of the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, as well as Stavropolstroy. In the hardest post-war years in the almost complete absence of funds and materials, the construction of the most important facilities was nevertheless completed: in June 1948, the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinskaya hydroelectric power station were put into operation, which provided electricity to the city of Stavropol and the surrounding areas. The reliability of these objects has been tested by time. For the Nevinomyssky Canal, the country awarded him the Order of Lenin.

After the construction was completed, 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 channels.

Since the late 1950s, he was put at the head of the famous Angaragesstroy department. At the construction site, Andrey Efimovich managed to create a friendly, hard-working team and short term brought construction to the forefront.

This construction was the ninth major construction 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 to cope with the work of such a gigantic scale. Such a construction site as the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, for which, as he himself recalled, 1,500 factories worked, was akin in terms of production nuclear weapons I.V. Kurchatov or missile systems S.V. Korolev.

The leader of such gigantic construction projects must undoubtedly be an outstanding specialist, a brilliant organizer of production, have vast work experience, be courageous, and be able to take reasonable risks. All this certainly was. But there were other features that everyone appreciated so much.

This is his relationship with people. Attitude cordial, respectful, constant desire to help a person. And people responded to him with their inspired work, devoted attitude to the cause. This is especially evident in his memoirs, which he called "The Tale of a Hydro-Builder. With Water as with Fire." “When you remember what has been passed,” writes E.A. Bochkin, “you see before you the faces of 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. I want to talk about them, and not at all about myself. Everything that happened in my life was determined by them, everything that was done was done thanks to them. These are the words, and I know for sure that these words are not a beautiful pose, but a position.

At the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, one of the machine operators gave a good idea how to get 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 Vilyui hydroelectric power station. He built a hydroelectric power station 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 already as an honored guest and ... an honorary member of the brigade, which was named after him. In 1971 Andrey Efimovich was elected a member of the Technical Council of the Ministry of Energy and Electrification of the USSR.

Honored Builder of the RSFSR, laureate of the Lenin Prize A.E. Bochkin was awarded three Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Poems and songs were composed about him, films were made, in 1977 the Bochkin Prize was approved, which was awarded to the best Komsomol youth team of the Tvermelioratsia association.

He died in 1979 and was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

One of the streets in the area of the hydroelectric power station is named after him, on the house number 1 of which there is an information board. His name is listed on the memorial plaque of especially distinguished construction workers.

Compositions

With water as with fire (The story of a hydraulic engineer). - M., 1978.

Literature

Pokachalova M.D. Andrey Efimovich Bochkin // Newspaper Siberian Power Engineer. 2006. 19 Oct. (No. 19). C. 4.
Goncharov V. Construction manager (eyewitness recollection)
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, Ievlevo village, Tver province - October 16, 1979, Moscow) - hydraulic engineer. 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 soup.

1923 - study at the school of the second stage with. Ilgoshchi, further - in Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovoe.

Since 1929, he studied at the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation at the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1933 - passed the educational production practice at the DneproGES.

1941-1942 - Student of the Military Engineering Academy named after VV Kuibyshev.

Labor activity (pre-war)

Andrey Bochkin has been actively engaged in propaganda work in the countryside since the age of 17. Works in the committee of the Komsomol 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, travels around the entire Tver province with propaganda carts. Then, in 1927-1928, he worked as a secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in V. Volochka. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside, A.E. Bochkin, on a party call, participates 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 a nickel plant in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was the secretary of the party committee of Nikelstroy, and then a senior construction superintendent railway Nickel - Akkermanovka.

1937-1940 - chief and Chief Engineer 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 (supervised the construction of the Fergana and Nevinnomyssk canals, the Uch-Kurgan reservoir).

The Great Patriotic War

March 1942-1945 - Major of engineering troops, Karelian and 2nd Belorussian fronts: brigade engineer of the 85th Marine Brigade of the 215th Infantry Division; corps engineer 312 rifle corps. He was wounded, shell-shocked. In 1942, 8 km from the front line for the needs of the army, he built his 1st, mini-hydroelectric power station. Participated in the battles for the liberation of Poland, Denmark, Germany. He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel.

Labor activity (post-war)

Bust of A. E. Bochkin in the Museum of the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station (Divnogorsk)

1945-1949 - Head of the construction of the Nevinnomyssky Canal and the 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 HPP.

With the beginning of construction management, Andrey Efimovich made a number of cardinal decisions for Krasnoyarsk HPP:

rejection of the lightweight, arch type of dam construction and the adoption of a heavy, gravity-monolithic type;
rejection of the "continuous" method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and the construction of the classical non-trestle method, which ensured the reliability of the structures;
change in the master plan for the construction of the city of Divnogorsk;
overlapping of the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow:

1963, March 25 - for the first time in winter conditions, the most full-flowing 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 HPP, together with subcontractors, amounted to more than 21,000 people.

1971 - released from the duties of the head of KrasnoyarskGESstroy.

1979, October 16 Andrei Efimovich Bochkin died in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

On Sunday, October 30, we will celebrate the anniversary date unique person, whose name is inextricably linked with 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. This day marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous hydraulic builder, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize Andrei Efimovich Bochkin. This legendary man can no doubt be attributed to 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 for many centuries people are very sensitive to "round dates" in their own lives? Probably because age is a victory over being. It seems that quite recently we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Andrei Efimovich Bochkin on a grand scale. And here we are on the verge of another anniversary date. But even now, after a while, his name remains at the hearing. They didn't forget about him. He is remembered by his colleagues, former associates and descendants of hydraulic engineers. A memorial complex has been erected in the center of the city, where, on a high pedestal, a bronze (two human height) Bochkin “looks around” 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 Bochkins). Is this not a victory over eternity?
Of course, the editors of the newspaper "The Lights of the Yenisei" could not stay away from the significant date. On the eve of the anniversary of the great hydrobuilder, with the support and help of veterans of Krasnoyarskgesstroy, we decided to remind our readers what kind of person he was - Andrey Efimovich Bochkin.

MAIN LIFE MILESTONES A.E. BOCHKINA
10/30/1906 - In the village of Ivlevo, Ilgoshinsky 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 - Joining the ranks of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
1929 - student-thousander
hydrotechnical faculty of the Moscow Institute of Water Management. He passed his industrial practice at the Dneproges.
1937 - 1940 - Head and chief engineer of the construction of irrigation systems and dams 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 - Member of the Great Patriotic War.
1945 - 1949 - Head of the construction of the Nevinnomyssk Canal and the Svistukhinsk hydroelectric station in the Stavropol Territory.
1953 - 1959 - Head of the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.
December 10, 1959 - Appointed head of the Construction Department of Krasnoyarskgesstroy.
1960 - Awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
1973 - Awarded the Lenin Prize in science and technology for the creation of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station.
October 16, 1979 - A.E. died in Moscow. Bochkin. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

A lot of books have been written about Andrei Efimovich Bochkin's big life filled with various events. Unfortunately, the newspaper format does not allow in full tell about her. Anyone who knew Andrei Efimovich closely knows how steep turns sometimes awaited him on life path. Not everyone can endure something like this. Bochkin's contemporaries called him among themselves Pavka Korchagin. And the hydro-engineer himself expressed this about his fate: “... Everything that happened to me in life, it turned out that everything was for the good ... Now, when I look back at the path traveled, consisting of many appointments, in which they did not always take into account what I want, out of the many cones I received deservedly and undeservedly, it begins to seem to me that I was boiled, tempered and run in according to a special program drawn up just for me, with a pre-set goal: everything that I experienced later turned out to be so necessary ... ".

DIVNOGORSK PAGE

It was here, in Divnogorsk, that Bochkin's outstanding organizational talent was fully manifested.
Leading the construction at a critical moment, when the choice of the type of dam by Moscow specialists was leaning towards the arched “lightweight and openwork”, Andrei Efimovich, having shown 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 to work, to the fulfillment of the task set before 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 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, having not completed much work before commissioning the KGPP. On July 2, 1971, the Divnogorsk City Council of Workers' Deputies appropriated A.E. Bochkin the title of "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 an outstanding hydraulic builder stopped beating.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW!

Behind feats of arms During the Great Patriotic War he was awarded:
- Order of the Red Banner;
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class;
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree;
- medal "For the 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;
- a lot of medals;
- Awarded the Lenin Prize.

ON FRIENDSHIP WITH THE BOOK AND THE WORD

From a deep youth, Andrei Efimovich respectfully treated the printed word. As a gray-haired old man, he recalled how "the days of greatest happiness - reading newspapers and books ... in an old park ... with half-starved friends from the boarding school." The profession of a hydraulic engineer did not alienate him from the book, from the press. On the contrary, A.E. Bochkin, a subtle psychologist and ideologist, directed the most powerful force of newspaper, magazine, book lines, air, photo and film cameras to create a team of builders of Krasnoyarskgesstroy, to instill in the builders a sense of self-responsibility and dignity for what they have done: to everyone, everyone - read, listen, watch - we, the builders, are able to compete with the giant Yenisei, erect the world's greatest hydroelectric power station, and give energy to the Motherland. Andrey Efimovich never distinguished himself 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 a bookstore at the construction site.

FAVORITE HOBBIE - SONG!

Andrei Efimovich knew how and loved to sing sincere and secluded Russian songs. Maybe his mother instilled in him his love for them. It is possible that this kind and bright hobby was born in him from school.
Despite the hard working days, 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)

(1906-10-30 ) Place of Birth:

Ievlevo village, Tver region

Date of death: Father:

Bochkin Efim Mikhailovich (d. 1914)

Mother:

Bochkina Maria Mikhailovna

Awards and prizes:

The grave of the hydraulic builder A.E. Bochkin at the Vagankovsky cemetery

Andrey Efimovich Bochkin(October 30, 1906, the village of Ievlevo, Ilgoshchinskaya volost, Bezhetsky district, now the Rameshkovsky district of the Tver region - October 16, 1979, Moscow) - hydraulic engineer. 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 the school of the second stage with. Ilgoshchi, further - in Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovoe.

Since 1929, he studied at the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation at the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1933 - passed the educational production practice at the DneproGES.

Labor activity (pre-war)

Andrey Bochkin has been active in propaganda work in the countryside since the age of 17. He works in the committee of the Komsomol 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, travels around the entire Tver province with propaganda carts. Then, in 1927-1928, he worked as a secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in V. Volochka. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside, A.E. Bochkin, on a party call, participates 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 a nickel plant in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was the secretary of the party committee of Nikelstroy, and then the senior superintendent of the construction of the Nickel-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 (supervised 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 beginning of construction management, Andrey Efimovich made a number of cardinal decisions for Krasnoyarsk HPP:

rejection of the lightweight, arch type of dam construction and the adoption of a heavy, gravity-monolithic type;
rejection of the "continuous" method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and the construction of the classical non-trestle method, which ensured the reliability of the structures;
change in the master plan for the construction of the city of Divnogorsk;
overlapping of the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow:

1963, March 25 - for the first time in winter conditions, the most full-flowing 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 HPP, together with subcontractors, amounted to more than 21,000 people.

1971 - released from the duties of the head of KrasnoyarskGESstroy.

1979, October 16 Andrei Efimovich Bochkin died in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

During his life, Andrey Efimovich Bochkin built 10 hydraulic structures: the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the Domashkinskaya Dam, the Labazinskaya Dam, the Kutulukskaya Dam, the Nevinnomyssky Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant, the South Ukrainian Canal, the North Crimean Canal, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Plant, advised - Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Family

Andrey Efimovich was married to Bochkina Varvara Fedorovna (1902-1975). Two daughters (Valentina, Nadezhda (1948)).

State awards and titles

, 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 the 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).
in the field of science and technology (1973) - for the creation of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, by the 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 class
Order of the Patriotic War II degree
medals

Popular recognition

1975, May 26 - by order of the Directorate of the main structures for the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, Bochkin A.E. was enrolled as an honorary carpenter-concrete worker in the Komsomol youth brigade of S. Kolenkov (until 1986). The salary of an honorary member of the brigade was transferred to the account of Tabatsky orphanage Beisky district, Khakassia.

1980 - in the city of Divnogorsk, Tsentralnaya Street was renamed into A. E. Bochkin Street.

1996 - in Irkutsk, Ogni Kommunizma street was renamed Bochkina street.

2006 - in the city of 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.

February 2, 2008 - a bronze monument to A.E. Bochkin, sculptor Yu. Ishkhanov, was opened in Divnogorsk.

Publications

Bochkin A.E. With water, as with fire: (the story of a hydraulic engineer) / [Lit. entry 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 HPP // Hydrotechnical construction, 1972, No. 9, pp. 16-19.
Bochkin A.E. At the origins of the great construction (builder's notes) / [Lit. entry 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 are lit: (About A.E. Bochkin). - M.: Politizdat, 1977. - 270 p.
Goncharov V. Head of construction // Sov. Russia. - 2001. - 25 Aug. - S. 5.
Grechushnikov A. Man of duty and honor // Fires of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
Demenchuk G.S. Chief hydraulic engineer. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Prince. publishing house, 1982. - 48 p.
Zalyubovskaya M. Andrey Bochkin // Soviet engineers: collection / Comp. A. B. Ivanov. Biographies Series: The Lives of Remarkable People. - M.: Mol. Guard, 1985. - S. 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 Citizens. - Krasnoyarsk, 2003. - S. 243-247.
Kazyurin I. Commander of the construction site // Fires of the Yenisei. - 2001. - 31 Oct.
Katser Zh. U. 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. - 2 Nov. - S. 8-9: photo.
Field B. N. The Tenth Sea of Engineer Bochkin. - M: Soviet Russia, 1974. - 60 p.
Rossovsky V.P. "Heroes of Labor". Biographical guide. - 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: Klass, 2011-400 p.
Builder Andrey Bochkin: [on awarding Lenin. Prizes in 1973 for the creation of Krasnoyar. HPS] // True. - 1973. - 26 Apr.
Fedorov I. G. 100 years since the birth of the head of construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, Hero of Socialist Labor Andrei Efimovich Bochkin // Our Krasnoyarsk land: a calendar of significant and anniversaries for 2006. - Krasnoyarsk, 2005. - S. 101-104.

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B ochkin Andrey Efimovich - head of the AngaraGESstroy department for the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.

Born on October 30, 1906 in the village of Ievlevo, Ilgoshchinsky volost, Bezhetsky district, now Rameshkovsky district Tver region, in a peasant family, was the eleventh, the last child. Russian.

In 1917 he graduated from a four-year parochial school of the 1st stage in the village of Ilgoshchi, then he studied at a school of the 2nd stage in the villages of Ilgoshchi, Kiverichi, Mikhailovo-Prudovoe. Member of the Komsomol since 1920, member of the CPSU (b) since 1925. In 1921 he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion.

He studied at the Pedagogical College in the village of Prudovo, Tver district, the Tver Teachers' Institute. He worked as an instructor of the Tver Komsomol committee, chairman of consumer cooperation, in the editorial office of the Tverskaya Pravda newspaper, deputy editor of the Tverskaya Village newspaper, in the agro-industrial department of the Tver City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, traveled all over the Tver province with propaganda carts. In 1927-1928 he worked as a secretary of the party committee of a textile factory in the city of Vyshny Volochek. With the beginning of collectivization in the countryside (1928-1929, 1934-1935), he participated in the creation of the first collective farms in the Aleisky district of the West Siberian Territory on the basis of a party call.

Since 1929, he studied at the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation at the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1933 - passed the educational production practice at the DneproGES.

Since 1936, he was sent to build a nickel plant in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region, where he was the secretary of the Nikelstroy party committee, and then the senior superintendent of the construction of the Nikel-Akkermanovka railway.

1937-40 - head and chief engineer of the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system (Domashkinskaya and Labazinskaya dams) and the Kutulukskaya dam in the Orenburg region.

1940-41 - Head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR (supervised the construction of the Fergana and Nevinnomyssk canals, the Uch-Kurgan reservoir).

1941-42 - student of the Military Engineering Academy named after V.V. Kuibyshev.

From March 1942 until the end of World War II, he fought on the Karelian and 2nd Belorussian fronts: brigade engineer of the 85th Marine Brigade, divisional engineer of the 205th Infantry Division of the 26th Army; corps engineer of the 132nd rifle corps of the 19th army. He was wounded, shell-shocked. In 1942, 8 km from the front line for the needs of the army, he built his first mini-hydroelectric power station. Participated in defensive battles in Karelia near the village of Loukhi, in the Petsamo-Kirkenes, East Pomeranian, Berlin operations, including in the battles for the cities of Kirkenes, Danzig (Gdansk), Stettin (Szczecin), the island of Bornholm, liberated the territories of Poland, Germany , Denmark. He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel.

1945-49 - Head of the construction of the Nevinnomyssky Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station in the Stavropol Territory. 1950-53 - 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. This hydroelectric power station on the Angara was the firstborn of the Siberian hydropower industry, its construction became launch pad for the development of new technologies and a school for training personnel for hydraulic construction projects in the Siberian North. In 1959, the Irkutsk HPP was successfully put into operation.

At Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 11, 1960 for the introduction of new progressive labor methods and the success achieved in the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station Bochkin Andrey Efimovich was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.

From December 1959 to 1971 - Head of the Construction Department of KrasnoyarskGESstroy. With the start of construction management, A.E. Bochkin made a number of cardinal decisions for the Krasnoyarsk HPP: the rejection of a lightweight, arch type of dam construction and the adoption of a heavy, gravity-monolithic type; rejection of the "continuous" method of laying concrete in the body of the dam and the construction of the classical non-trestle method, which ensured the reliability of the structures; change in the master plan for the construction of the city of Divnogorsk; blocking the Yenisei in winter conditions, during the minimum water flow: March 25, 1963 - for the first time in winter conditions, the most full-flowing 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 HPP, together with subcontractors, amounted to more than 21,000 people.

From 1971 - Member of the Technical Council of the Ministry of Energy and Electrification of the USSR, advised design work and First stage construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.

In total, during his life, A.E. Bochkin built 10 hydraulic structures: the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Domashkinskaya Dam, the Labazinskaya Dam, the Kutulukskaya Dam, the Nevinnomyssky Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant, the South Ukrainian Canal, the North Crimean Canal, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Plant, advised - Sayano- Shushenskaya HPP.

A.E. Bochkin was elected a delegate to the XIX and XXII congresses of the CPSU, was a deputy of the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR.

IN last years lived in Moscow. Died October 16, 1979. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

July 13, 1971 A.E. Bochkin was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Divnogorsk". On May 26, 1975, by order of the Directorate of the main structures for the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, A.E. Bochkin was enrolled as an honorary carpenter-concrete worker in the Komsomol youth brigade of S. Kolenkov (until 1986). The salary of an honorary member of the brigade was transferred to the account of the Tabat Orphanage in the Beisky District, Khakassia. In 1977, the Bochkin Prize was approved, which was awarded to the best Komsomol youth team of the Tvermelioratsia association. In 1980, in the city of Divnogorsk, Central Street was renamed A.E. Bochkin Street (in 1987, a memorial plaque was installed on house No. 24 along this street). In 1996, in the city of Irkutsk, Ogni Kommunizma Street was renamed Bochkina Street. In 2006, in Divnogorsk, vocational school No. 42, on the initiative of the team, was named after the hydraulic engineer A.E. Bochkin, in honor of his 100th birthday. On February 2, 2008, a bronze monument to A.E. Bochkin was opened in Divnogorsk.
Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1966). Honorary Power Engineer of the USSR (1976). Laureate of the Lenin Prize in science and technology (1973).

Awarded 4 Orders of Lenin (02/07/1949; 08/09/1958; 01/11/1960; 06/01/1973), Orders of the Red Banner (10/15/1944), Order of the Red Banner of Labor (09/17/1966), World War 1st (07/16/1944) and 2nd (03/31/1945) degrees, medals, including "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic".

Compositions:
Bochkin A.E. With water, as with fire: (hydrobuilder's story) - M .: Soviet Russia, 1978.
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.
Bochkin A. E., Dolginin E. A., Liskun E. E. Organization of construction and technical and economic indicators of the Krasnoyarsk HPP // Hydrotechnical construction, 1972, No. 9.
Bochkin A.E. At the origins of the great construction (builder's notes) - Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1951.

Andrei Bochkin was born on October 30, 1906 in the small Tver village of Ievlevo in a poor peasant family, he was 11 children in the family. The father died early. But the mother was kind, and, according to Bochkin, this was the only upbringing that she could give him. He lived on the stove, shared it with cockroaches, and did not remember the case when his house was hit.

After graduating from the parochial school in 1917, he continued his education at the 2nd stage school in the village of Ilgoshi.

After graduating from school, he entered the Tver Teachers' Institute, where he did not have to study for a long time: he was soon recalled by the provincial committee of the Komsomol to political education and, as an instructor of the county committee of the Komsomol, became in charge of the school of political education, created training centers in villages and volosts, gave lectures and reports , arranged loud readings among the peasants of the Igoshinsky volost.

In 1924 he married a young teacher, Varvara Fedorovna, with whom he lived for more than fifty years (until her death in 1975).

Under the conditions of the new economic policy, A.E. Bochkin created cooperatives in the Goritsky district of the Tver province, then traveled with the Tverskaya Pravda campaign cart throughout the region, thanks to his ingenuity in the volosts and districts, the peasants of the province heard radio broadcasts from Moscow for the first time.

Despite the active organizational and political activities to strengthen Soviet power in the Tver region, the desire to study with A.E. Bochkin did not weaken, and finally, he entered the Moscow Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation: it was a time of industrialization, a period of grandiose plans for the electrification of the country. For three and a half years, A.E. Bochkin learned the secrets of hydropower from prominent professors of the country's largest university.

From the 4th year of the institute, the communist A.E. Bochkin was mobilized by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks / b / to work in the political department of the MTS in the village of Romashkino, Andreevsky (now Kurmanaevsky) district of the Middle Volga Territory (Orenburg Region), where he did a lot for the development of the region, where there was a development of him as a person.

Memorable 1937 Bochkin met at the post of secretary of the party committee of Nikelstroy in the city of Orsk, and this was his last party position. In the future, he worked only in the manufacturing sector.

Since 1937, he worked as a senior foreman for the construction of the Buzuluk irrigation system, which was the first irrigation system in Russia, consisting of canals and two earthen dams on the Labazy and Domashka rivers.

His knowledge gained at the Water Institute, on the construction of the Buzuluk water system, where he became the head of construction, helped him write thesis and still get a completed higher education.

In 1938, A.E. Bochkin was sent to build the Kutuluk irrigation system in the Bogatovsky district. It was the second irrigation system in Russia, which played a big role in the development of the lands of the arid Trans-Volga region. A large dam, a canal, and many structures were built here. Everything has been tried and tested over and over again. But reality often refutes any calculations. In the spring, when the canal was opened, it rained for several days, and the reservoir overflowed with water. April 16, 1939 rose to a critical value. Concrete slabs moved from their place, soil was exposed. It was a disaster. His beloved little son Volodya died in an icy stream. Bochkin himself, standing waist-deep in ice water supervised the disaster response. And people did not give up and won.

After the commissioning of the Kutuluk irrigation system in the spring of 1939, A.E. Bochkin was again recalled to Moscow and appointed head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR. It was a head office at the ministry level.

The Great Patriotic War found A.E. Bochkin in Lithuania, where he was on a business trip, returned to Moscow and asked to go to the front, but was sent to military engineering academy them. V.V. Kuibyshev and in March 1942, having received the title of military engineer, he arrived at the Karelian Front. He was appointed head of the engineering service of the 85th Marine Rifle Brigade of the 26th Army.

As a military engineer, a specialist in hydropower, A.E. Bochkin taught his subordinates to dig trenches and build dugouts taking into account the characteristics of the terrain, overcome water barriers, dig channels in the system of countless Karelian lakes, erected defensive structures.

In February 1943, Major Bochkin was transferred to the 186th rifle division, and in July 1943 to the 205th Infantry Division of the 26th Army as a divisional engineer. The division held the defense in the Karelian swamps, between Kestenga and the Loukhi station. The German divisions of the SS "Edelweiss" and "Dead Head" captured the reference heights, and the 205th dug in front of them - and not a step back. Here, Major Bochkin set up a model of a convoy on the road, which was constantly shot at by the German Focke-Wulfs. In another raid, the German "aces" attacked the layout and got caught. The plane was shot down, the Germans were discouraged. Bochkin received the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree for this. It was also here that he built his first front-line hydroelectric power station: a tiny one, with one wooden turbine, using a 7-meter difference in the levels of two small lakes. But the current got real. "... And they gave it to the wire fences, and illuminated everything they wanted, even the underground soldiers' club - we built it in five rolls and met the new year 1943 in it ...". The Germans never understood where the Russians got their electricity from.

In January 1944, Bochkin was awarded another military rank- Lieutenant Colonel, and soon, for the successful conduct of a 180-meter dig under Mount Gangashvara, which allowed one explosion to destroy the entire enemy defense line, Bochkin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In October 1944, during the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, Bochkin participated in a combat operation as commander of an airborne engineering and reconnaissance detachment. It was in the Barents Sea. The detachment landed on the enemy coast, carried out reconnaissance in force and conducted reconnaissance of engineering coastal fortifications. On the way back, the boat in which Bochkin was was wrecked 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 was noticed by our boat, which was looking for non-returning participants in the amphibious assault. His almost lifeless body was taken to his own, and the doctors managed to save him.

In November 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Bochkin, as a corps engineer, was transferred to the 132nd rifle corps 19th Army to the 2nd Belorussian Front. As part of the corps, he took part in the Pomeranian offensive in February 1945, in the capture of the city of Gdynia, and the crossing of the Oder. And on March 7, 1945, while crossing the Grabov River in the Segetin area, he organized the restoration of the bridge under enemy fire, for which he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree.

A.E. Bochkin ended the war in the summer of 1945 in Denmark, on the small island of Bornholm, where under his command a ring of German underwater mines was defused. Demobilized 29 August 1945. He was also awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany."

At the end of the war, as a professional hydraulic engineer, A.E. Bochkin was invited to the post of head of the Glavvodkhoz of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR, led the construction of the Nevinnomyssky Canal and the Svistukhinskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, as well as Stavropolstroy, one of the important links in the famous Stalinist Program for the transformation of nature .. In the hardest 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 Power Plant were put into operation, which provided electricity to the city of Stavropol and the surrounding areas. The reliability of these objects has been tested by time. Bochkin was awarded the Order of Lenin for the Nevinomyssky Canal.

After the construction was completed, 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 channels.

By this time, A.E. Bochkin was already well known in the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Government as a talented organizer who could be entrusted with any complex and responsible business. Therefore, when the question arose of speeding up the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, he was instructed to do this.

The Irkutsk hydroelectric power plant, due to extremely favorable natural conditions, was supposed to become the most economical hydroelectric power plant Soviet Union. But the significance of its construction was not limited to its exceptional technical and economic indicators. It was supposed to be the first hydroelectric power plant in the USSR, built in a harsh climate. Eastern Siberia. The construction was actually supposed to become a laboratory for new technologies and methods of work. The pace of hydropower development of the Siberian North largely depended on its successful completion.
For A.E. Bochkin, this construction site became “ big science”, it was here that he finally formed as a major production manager, an experienced hydraulic engineer, who knows and feels, as it were, from the inside all the subtleties and complexities of his profession, constantly associated with a changeable and unpredictable nature. Here, under his leadership, many new technologies of hydraulic engineering work were developed and tested in production, which later became a reader of hydraulic engineering construction. It was the experience gained at the Irkutsk HPP in construction in harsh climatic conditions that paved the way for the advancement of hydropower to the Far North and North-East of the USSR. Following the Irkutsk, the Mamakanskaya hydroelectric power station was built in the north Irkutsk region, Ust-Khantayskaya hydroelectric power station in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Vilyuiskaya and Kolyma hydroelectric power plants in Yakutia, and this marked the beginning of the development of the innumerable natural resources of the “main pantry” of our country.

In 1959, all work at the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station was fully completed, and it was put into commercial operation. At the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station, Bochkin managed to create a friendly, hard-working team and in a short time brought the construction site to the forefront. This construction was the ninth major construction in his biography, for which he received the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor.

Appointment of A.E. Bochkin as the head of the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei, which was supposed to become at that time the most powerful hydroelectric power station on the planet and, in terms of its technical level, to show, as it were, the face of our country, was, of course, a manifestation of confidence in him on the part of the party and the state. A.E. Bochkin justified this trust.

Having accepted the construction site, which was actually on the verge of conservation, in a short time he brought it to the forefront: the whole country soon started talking about the construction of an energy giant on the Yenisei.

In intense creative work, a strong team was formed - a fusion of youth and experience, and A.E. Bochkin became not just his boss, but a recognized leader whom people believed in, whom they looked up to, whom they followed like into battle. His "Bochkin" leadership style favorably differed from others. He was an implacable opponent of formalism, bureaucracy and all kinds of window dressing. He understood his responsibility for the assigned work broadly, in a state-like way, and for him there were no departmental barriers. He was equally responsible for the progress of construction work, and the work of subcontractors, and the quality of the project, and the state of the estimate, and even how competently the operation of the HPP was organized in the first years after the commissioning of the units. With his personality, he united everyone at the construction site, everyone had to work with him in a single team, in which he was the root - the head of construction.

Through all the activities of A.E. Bochkin as the chief of construction, a red thread was the concern that the structure he built was as reliable and efficient as possible in operation. All the rest: deadlines commissioning, the economic indicators of the construction were, of course, very important, but they receded before the reliability and quality of the constructed structure. At the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, he had to endure a long and intense struggle with those who, in the wake of opportunistic considerations, tried to unreasonably “rationalize” the dam project in order to make it more “passable” in the country's decision-making bodies. The fact that today the Krasnoyarsk HPP is one of the most reliable structures of this class built in the USSR is to a large extent the personal merit of A.E. Bochkin.

The construction of the Krasnoyarsk HPP was completed on schedule. The builders fulfilled their obligations to commission the first two units by the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, commissioned the remaining 10 units exactly on schedule and handed over State Commission a fully completed hydroelectric power plant with an "excellent" rating in the summer of 1972. All 12 hydraulic units of the Krasnoyarsk HPP with a total capacity of 6 million kilowatts were put into operation. Today, the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station with its 120-meter high dam is one of the most reliable and economical structures of this type, the core of the entire energy system of Siberia.

A.E. Bochkin brought up hundreds and thousands of specialists in hydraulic engineering, who made a great contribution to the development of energy not only in the Soviet Union, but also abroad. In fact, under his leadership, an entire hydraulic school was created, which, with with good reason could be called "Bochkin". The contribution of A.E. Bochkin is highly appreciated: he was awarded the Lenin Prize.

A.E. Bochkin paid great attention to the further use of the potential of the Yenisei River. Under his leadership, the construction of an even larger one, the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station with a capacity of 6.4 million kilowatts and with a dam 240 meters high, began. Unfortunately, due to illness, he himself was not able to complete this grandiose project. Subsequently, at the end of the 70s, A.E. Bochkin visited the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP as an honored guest and ... an honorary member of the brigade, which was named after him. However, today the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP is successfully operating for the benefit of Russia.

In 1971, A.E. Bochkin was elected a member of the Technical Council of the Ministry of Energy and Electrification of the USSR. In 1978, A.E. Bochkin "With water as with fire" - a story of a hydraulic engineer about the construction of the Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power stations.

The name of Andrei Efimovich Bochkin became legendary and did not leave the pages of newspapers and magazines, radio and television screens. Books have been written and films made about him. The famous poet A.T. Tvardovsky, admiring the feat of the people who blocked the Angara, in the poem “Beyond the distance - the distance” dedicated heartfelt lines to him. A.E. Bochkin became the prototype of the protagonist of F.N. Taurin's novel "On the Angara". He dedicated the book "The Tenth Sea of Bochkin" famous writer and his friend B.N. Polevoy, who said: “Man! Such is our land red and rich!