Shumakov Leonid Georgiyevich

rector in the years 1963-1970

He is a great scientist-practitioner, who played an important role in the formation and development of Soviet ferrous metallurgy. He was born in 1908 in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region in the family of a working railwayman. At the age of sixteen he graduated from the labor school and entered the Taganrog Industrial Institute. In 1926, in connection with the reorganization of the Institute, he was transferred to the Dneprodzerzhinsk Metallurgical Institute in the city of Kamenskoye, where he completed his theoretical training in 1928. After the end of the theoretical course, he was sent to the blast furnace shop of the Sulinsky Metallurgical Plant to master the practice of blast-furnace business and finish the thesis. In 1931 he defended his thesis and received a certificate of qualification of a metallurgical engineer.

Immediately he was drafted into the Red Army, where he studied at a one-year engineering school. After graduation from the military school, having received the military rank of the senior lieutenant of the engineering troops, he continued his work in the blast furnace shop of the Sulinsky Metallurgical Plant.

In 1935 the blast-furnace shop was put on a conservation and Shumakov Leonid Georgievich together with a group of workers were transferred to the newly-built metallurgical plant in the city of Krivoy Rog of the Dnepropetrovsk region. There he worked as deputy chief of the blast furnace shop until 1938.

In 1938, by order of S. Ordzhonikidze, he was transferred to the post of chief of the blast furnace shop of Makeevka Steel Works, where he worked until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. On the eve of the fascist occupation in October 1941, the State Defense Committee instructs Shumakov LG. destroy the main objects of the plant. After completing the assignment, he arrived in the city of Stalingrad, where he received a new appointment – the head of the blast furnace shop of the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant. In 1942 he was appointed chief engineer of this plant.

In 1947, by order of the People’s Commissar Committee, he was recalled and sent for the restoration of the Makeevka Metallurgical Plant, where he worked until 1952 as chief of the blast furnace shop.

In 1952, after further training at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, he was appointed chief engineer of the Orsk-Khalilov Metallurgical Combine.

 

 

In 1961 he took part in the competition for the post of head of the department “Metallurgy of cast iron” of the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute. In 1962, the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR assigns Shumakov LG. the title of professor. In 1963, he was appointed rector of the newly established HTEI plant at the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant in the city of Temirtau. In August 1970, in connection with retirement, was released from his post. In 1972 he resigned and returned to his homeland in the city of Taganrog.

Shumakov Leonid Georgievich – author of many inventions and rationalization proposals for improving the technology of metallurgical production. So under his leadership during the Great Patriotic War, a technology was developed for obtaining armored steel for tanks “T-34” from the poor ores of the Urals Midnight Deposit.

For his services to the Motherland, he was awarded 11 orders and medals, including the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Badge of Honor, the medal “For Labor Valor”.