Alexei Stakhanov

Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (Russian: Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов, IPA:; 3 January 1906 – 5 November 1977) was a Sovietminer, Hero of Socialist Labour (1970), and a member of the CPSU (1936).

He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of what became known as the Stakhanovite movement—a campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.