Matveychuk Magnitogorsk biography

He gave the gas industry a quarter of a century, having traveled from the head of the department to the head of the ministry. Friends and associates called him a “gas commander”, recognizing the unconditional and indisputable authority in this most important industry of the national economy. On the path of professional formation, Alexei Kirillovich Kortunov was born on March 28, on March 15, his father worked as a cute of riho-wheeled railway pairs on the Voronezh-Rostov railway.

After graduating from elementary school, Alexey studied at a craft school, after which he entered the work as a locksmith in the Novocherkasskoye engine depot. In the depot, he was also taken as members of the Russian Communist Union of Youth.

From G. Alexei Kortunov entered the building of this university as a student of the engineering and recovery faculty. Since in the city as one of the best graduates on the recommendation of the Scientific Council he was sent to study in graduate school at the department of organization and mechanization of construction work. In the spring of G. Alexei Kortunov successfully completed the graduate school of the university, renamed in February of the same year to the Novocherkassk engineering and recovery institution.

However, he could not defend the dissertation; at the Komsomol call, he was aimed at Ukraine, to the construction of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. After that, he took part in the construction of steeling production facilities. It seemed that his engineering career would find here a further successful continuation. However, in the city here the priority task was to build a block of large aerodynamic pipes T and T, where engineer Kortunov was directed.

In the city, on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War on June 22, given his specialty and experience, he was sent to military engineering courses, after which, on March 5, during heavy defensive battles during the Rzhev-Vyazemsky operation, the division commander Erofei Dobrovolsky received news of the death of the enemy shell of the entire command of the infantry regiment.

On his orders, a divisional engineer Kortunov went to this regiment with the task to accept the command of the unit and “hold out for several days” until he has been selected for the replacement of the drill commander. Captain Kortunov successfully coped with combat mission and even “lasted” for a month, after which the question of its replacement did not even rise at the division headquarters.

Commanding the regiment, he showed outstanding qualities on the leadership of combat operations. For military valor, during the liberation of G. during the liberation of the territory of Poland on the “Pulavsky” bridgehead, “for the skillful command of the regiment, the exemplary execution of the command tasks of the command and the heroism and courage shown at the same time, to Colonel Alexei Kortunov, was awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union.

However, he did not have to remove the military uniform in the same year. In - G. on the peaceful front after demobilization in the fall of G. Alexei Kortunov returned home, but did not remain without work for long. His valuable experience of the builder and great organizational abilities were in demand in the Main Directorate for the construction of the oil and gas industry enterprises under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

In the personnel department, at first, he, as the Hero of the Soviet Union, was offered a leading position in Moscow, in one of the structural units of the Glavka. However, the measured stationery work praised the active nature of Alexei Kortunov, now on the civilian front he was again eager for battle. Having received an appointment to the post of head of the Tuymazinsky territorial construction department, he went to Bashkiria.

The main construction force was the Tuimazaneftegazstroy trust, which performed work on the arrangement of the Tuymazinsky deposit located near the village of Naryshevo in the western part of the republic in a km from Ufa. The significant results achieved by the Tuymazinsky territorial administration under the leadership of Alexei Kortunov on the arrangement of the Tuymazin and Serafimov deposits did not remain unbearable by the leadership of the industry and then he worked as the head of the Main Directorate for Construction in the eastern regions of the country, and in December, in early February, Alexei Kortunov was approved as his deputy.

However, on May 25, next month, June 17, the leading role in the implementation of the task was assigned to the Ministry of Construction of Oil Industry enterprises. And in the first year of its activity, the most important object was the construction of the Stavropol-Moscow trunk gas pipeline. The operational management of the construction of the gas pipeline was carried out by the Main Directorate for the construction of oil pipelines, headed by engineer Alexei Yuryshev and the Directorate of the gas pipeline under construction, led by the experienced builder Nikolai Bondarenko.

The gas pipeline route, with a length of 1 thousand. Construction of the linear part and ground structures compressor stations, emergency repair points, etc.The entire period of construction, Minister Alexei Kortunov did not let out the course of work from the field of view, often directly controlled the construction of the gas line. It was on this highway that he set the task of working out the flow-speed construction of large-diameter trunk pipelines and the maximum achievement of the level of mechanization of construction and installation works.

In total, for the construction work from the composition of the existing forces and funds, 20 earth-wound columns, 20 assembly and welding sections, 26 complex mechanized insulating columns, 23 complex brigades for the construction of crossings and 6 complex brigades for laying communication lines were formed. The average pace of laying of the pipeline reached 85 km per month, which was a record indicator for that time, because earlier they were only 20-30 km per month.

At the direction of Minister Alexei Kortunov during the construction, there was also a test of many technological, organizational and regulatory documents for the construction of trunk pipelines. The construction of the first stage of the Stavropol-Moskva main gas pipeline ended on December 22, party and Soviet government leaders were in the presidium of the meeting. This was the first and only representative meeting at such a high level dedicated to an epoch -making event in the history of the domestic gas industry.

Soon, the labor feat of many builders of the Stavropol gas pipeline - Moscow was marked by high government awards, and among them was Minister Alexei Kortunov, awarded the Order of Lenin. At the head of the gas chiefs on May 10, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted the Law of the USSR “On further improvement of the organization of industry and construction management”, according to which, instead of the industry principle, the territorial principle of industry management and construction carried out by regional councils of the national economy was established.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Gas Industry Alexei Shmarev was appointed to the post of chairman of the Tatar Council of People's Commissars, and Alexei Kortunov was appointed in his place. Having headed this department, he clearly understood that he had to solve a difficult task to ensure the implementation of a government solution to fundamentally change the structure of the fuel balance by increasing the production of hydrocarbon raw materials.

In the five -year plan for the development of the country in the GG. To fulfill this difficult task, the head of the Glavgazu took under his personal control the development of the general scheme for the development of the industry for a five -year period. Its visionary decision was the creation of a unified management of production, construction, equipment, research, design and design work.

To this end, Alexei Kortunov managed to convince the government to include 14 construction and installation trusts that carried out the construction of main pipelines in the post-war years. In addition, the structure of the department included 14 specialized design bureaus and scientific and design institutes, including Giprospetsgaz. As a result, a powerful association of design, construction, operating enterprises and organizations that have a common goal was formed - to carry out a breakthrough in the country's gasification based on the rapid growth of gas production and transportation.

The leadership of the Glavgaz was set new tasks for the development of the raw material base, to carry out the technical re -equipment of the gas industry, which was in the next decades a powerful base for forced gas production growth. The course accepted by the government to change the structure of the fuel balance led to the rapid development of the main transport of natural gas.

As a result of the development of new gas fields, gas pipelines were built: Ishimbay-Magnitogorsk, Kazan-Gorky, Saratov-Volsk, Stepanovskoye-Saratov, Serpukhov-Leningrad and a number of others. By the beginning of G., the annual production of natural gas in the city significantly increased the explored reserves of “blue fuel” by reaching an indicator of 1 billion.

The large economic advantages of using natural gas in the economy of the Soviet Union and the presence of its huge reserves determined the further main direction for the further accelerated development of the gas industry. In March, in January, the main controls for pipeline construction and the construction of industrial facilities of the oil and gas industries were created in the structure of the Gosgazprom.

The First Minister of the gas industry in the beginning of the xg. To coordinate actions in the city of Tyumen, an apparatus of the authorized state newspaper industry was created, headed by the experienced leader Alexei Barsukov. And in February, a month later, at a meeting of the board of November 2 and at the end of the city, the ministry reported in its report that the production of natural gas in the country reached 7 billion.

Naval gas reserves were determined at 2.1 trill.Successfully put into operation: the Saratov-Gorky main gas pipeline, the second ring gas pipeline around Moscow with a length of about 1 thousand at the beginning of the city of Polopanov, the Urengoy gas field was opened. At that time, it was the largest deposit in the world with the initial reserves of natural gas 10.9 trillion.

The Soviet government praised the significant achievements of the labor groups of the gas industry. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “For outstanding merits in the development of the gas industry and the achievement of high technical and economic indicators in the implementation of the tasks of the seven-year plan” as part of the large group of industry workers, Alexei Kortunov, was awarded the third Order of Lenin.

On the growth trajectory in the last third of the twentieth century. In July, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopts a decree “On strengthening exploration for gas and developing the identified large gas fields in the northern regions of the Tyumen region”, in which Mingazprom has a task to develop and implement the strategy for the long -term development of the gas industry of Western Siberia in a short time.

Which was done in the indicated time and at a high professional level. The discovery of Urengoy and bear, unique gas fields made it possible to develop projects for creating super -powerful crafts with the volume of annual production of natural gas, respectively, and 75 billion, in a short time. However, to transport such future giant volumes, it was necessary to create the appropriate infrastructure, taking into account specific features associated with complex climatic, hydrogeological and permal conditions of the Far North.

The further successful course of the implementation of the provisions of this resolution was shown by the correctness and foresight of the decisions of the leadership of the Mingazprom. And soon, in order to increase the efficiency of building pipeline transport facilities, by order of the Minister Alexei Kortunov on the basis of the Glavvostokazstroy and Glavnokadgazstroy departments, the Main Directorate for the construction of oil and gas production enterprises and gas processing plants “Glavgazneftestra” was created.

In early April, Minister Alexei Kortunov clearly understood that for the first time in world and domestic practice it was necessary to solve a number of complex scientific and technical problems associated with the organization of production and transport of natural gas in the areas of permafrost.