Yevgeny Almazov
Eevgeny Almazov (26th of December 1912, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire – ?) – an engineer.
E. Almazov descended from a bourgeois family. His father worked as a feldsher (medical assistant), and his mother was a midwife who worked alongside him. In 1930, he graduated from a nine-year school and began his career at the Leningrad Stalin Plant. In 1932, Almazov entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering, from which he graduated in 1937 with a First-Class Diploma.
From 1937 to 1940, Almazov had been working as a senior engineer in the Bridges and Roads Department of the Volgostroy Directorate of the NKVD in the city of Rybinsk. From 1940 to 1941, he had been serving as a senior engineer at the design organization of Glavgidrostroy in Leningrad. At the outbreak of the war, Almazov was not drafted into the active army due to health reasons — throughout the war he held a reserved occupation status at his workplace.
After the war, Almazov returned to Leningrad and worked as a senior engineer in various design organizations across the city. In 1946, he moved to Riga, where he worked in several design institutes under the Ministry of Agriculture (MSKh) of the Latvian SSR. From 1951 to 1952, Almazov had been assigned to the construction of the Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Power Station as head of a division. From 1952 to 1953, he had been working as a senior engineer in the technical department of Kuybyshevhydrostroy in Stavropol (renamed Tolyatti in 1964).
In 1953, Almazov returned to Riga and was employed at the Riga branch of Teploelektroproekt as head of a group in the hydraulic engineering department of the Chief Project Engineer’s Office. In 1954, Almazov received a commendation from the institute’s management for his excellent work and outstanding performance in the preparation of project documentation for Riga CHP-1 and other construction sites.
In October 1962, Almazov was promoted to the position of Chief Project Engineer.
In 1973, Eevgeny Almazov retired due to poor health.
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