Konstantin Petrovich Grigorovich (russian: Константи́н Петро́вич Григоро́вич; 18 September 1886 — 15 April 1939) was a metallurgical engineer, founder of the soviet school of electrometallurgy, professor (1921), doctor of technical sciences (1934).

Biography

Grigorovich Konstantin Petrovich was born 18 September 1886 in

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a city and municipality in Southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea, is the location of the most downriver brid ...

. In 1913 graduated from

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU (also, formerly "Saint Petersburg State Technical University", abbreviated as SPbSTU), is a Russian technical university located in Saint Petersburg. Other former names i ...

. Places of work: from 1913 worked as an engineer at

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St-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, at the Metallurgical factory of ElektrostalElsteel.ru
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, Moscow Oblast. From 1920 — head of the electrometallurgical department of the Moscow Mining Academy, from 1931 — technical director of the Spetsstal trust. His knowledge in the field of metallurgy has proved to be extremely useful during the construction and installation of the soviet ferroalloy factories - in

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

(1931),

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(1934) and in

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(1934). In

he inspected quality of construction works and deployment of several factories: Ferroalloy (July 1931),

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(1935), electrocorundum (1933),

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(1934) and

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tools (1935). Field of academic interests: theoretical and practical electrometallurgical production, production of ferroalloys. Grigorovich K. P. — professor (1921), doctor of technical sciences (1934). Was arrested on 19 September 1938 on false charges for being a member of a counterrevolutionary terrorist organization (included to the list as an active member of counterrevolutionary right-wing

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, conspirative and spy organization) (931 people on the list) prosecuted by

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolsheviks ...

and

Andrey Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; pl, Andrzej Wyszyński) ( – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph ...

. Sentenced to death on 14 April 1939. The sentence was executed on 15 April 1939 at the

Kommunarka shooting ground The Kommunarka firing range (russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка»), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out th ...

. He was rehabilitated on 22 February 1956.

Works

* ''Grigorovich K. P.'' Electrometallurgy of steel. — 1922. — Part 1 : Electric furnaces. * ''Grigorovich K. P.'' Production of steel in electrical furnaces — 1932. * ''Grigorovich K. P.'' Production of bearing steel. — 1932. * ''Grigorovich K. P.'' Chelyabinsk electrometallurgical plant. — 1935.

References

External links

Григорович Константин Петрович
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Notes & references

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