Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR Bratchenko. Biography

Born into the family of an employee.

In 1935 he graduated from the Moscow Mining Institute with a degree in mining engineer-economist.

Since 1935 - assistant site manager, site manager of the Kizelugol mine trust (Perm region).

Since 1936 - in the Shakhtantracite trust of the Rostovugol plant:

• trust technical department engineer
• assistant chief engineer of the trust (since 1938)
• chief engineer of the trust (since 1940)
• head of the trust mine (since 1942)

In 1942 - district engineer of the production department of the People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of the USSR.

Since 1942 - assistant to the head of the secretariat of the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

Since 1943 - head of the mine.

Since 1945 - chief engineer of the Shakhtantracite trust.

Since 1949 - chief engineer of the Karagandaugol plant.

Since 1953 - Deputy Minister of the USSR Coal Industry.

Since 1957 - Chairman of the Kamensky Economic Council.

In 1958 - first deputy chairman of the Rostov Economic Council.

Since 1958 - head of the department of coal, peat and shale industry of the USSR State Planning Committee.

Since 1959 - Chairman of the Karaganda Economic Council.

Since 1961 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR.

Since September 1965 - Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 6-11 convocations.

Member of the CPSU since 1940.

Member of the CPSU Central Committee in 1971-1986 (candidate in 1966-1971).

Since December 1985 - personal pensioner of union significance.

For his great contribution to the development of the coal industry and many years of conscientious work, Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko was thanked by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin on the eve of his 90th birthday.

Awards and titles

• Recipient of the Miner's Glory badge of all three degrees.
• Order of the October Revolution (1976),
• Four Orders of Lenin (1948, 1966, 1971, 1982),
• Medals,
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1982),
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1956),
• Title “Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry” (1995),
• Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1949),

Born on October 9, 1912 in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory. Father - Bratchenko Fedor Nazarovich. Mother - Bratchenko Polina Aleksandrovna. Wife - Bratchenko Klara Samoilovna. Sons: Bratchenko Vladimir Borisovich, Bratchenko Alexander Borisovich. Granddaughter - Bratchenko Ekaterina, grandson - Bratchenko Boris.

Boris developed thriftiness as a character trait largely thanks to the large, hardworking family of his grandfather, Alexei Ivanovich, all of whose members worked conscientiously - both for the landowner at the mill and for their own wealth in their own farmstead.

During his school years, Boris lived with his mother, helped her unfailingly, and studied diligently. From a young age, he strove to become a leader in any business - he was not inferior to leadership among his peers either in the Pioneer organization or in the Komsomol. After graduating from high school, Boris decides to become an engineer, and soon the family received the news of his enrollment in the Moscow Mining Institute with great joy.

And among students, despite his younger age, Boris Bratchenko did not miss leadership. Seriousness, diligence, and initiative gradually developed into authority - already in the 1st year of the institute he was elected head of the group.

The first initiation into the mining business took place during an internship at a mine under construction named after the OGPU in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region. Boris and his classmates participated in all mining operations and carried them out efficiently. The first lava at the mine was prepared with the participation of students from the Mining Institute.

Industrial practice underground with smart specialists, studying mining sciences with famous scientists A.A. Skochinsky, A.M. Terpigorev, other equally wise teachers, helped B.F. Bratchenko to become a professional with deep knowledge and a broad outlook.

After graduating from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1935, Boris Fedorovich worked as an assistant to the chief, head of the section of the Kapitalnaya mine No. 2 of the Kizelugol trust, an engineer in the technical department of the Shakhtantracite trust, then as an assistant to the chief engineer of the October Revolution mine of the same trust. In 1940, he was appointed chief engineer of the M.V. mine. Frunze in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region.

The news of the beginning of the war was brought to the chief engineer Bratchenko in the early morning of June 22, 1941 by a messenger from the military registration and enlistment office. Every day the front line was rapidly moving to the east, and it was necessary to evacuate people and equipment into the interior of the country, disable the mines so that they would not fall to the enemy. In 1942, already as the head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, B.F. Bratchenko supervised the dismantling and dispatch of equipment, the evacuation of specialists to the Urals, Kuzbass, and Karaganda. What they could not remove was blown up, including the mine shaft and pile driver.

The Nazis devastated and scorched the earth. In the city of Shakhty alone, they killed about 14 thousand people; they threw more than 3,500 innocent victims into the shaft of the Krasin mine, including the sister of Boris Fedorovich’s wife. None of the mines of union and local significance that operated in the region have survived.

From the city of Shakhty B.F. Bratchenko was sent east, to Khakassia, where his family - his wife and two children - were evacuated. He stayed with his family for less than a day - he was summoned to Moscow to the People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of the USSR and was appointed senior district engineer of the production department, and then transferred to the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR as an assistant to the head of the secretariat of the coal industry group. But already at the beginning of September 1943, after the liberation of Donbass from the fascist invaders, an entry appeared in Boris Fedorovich’s work book: “Released from work in the Administration of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in connection with secondment at the disposal of the People’s Commissariat of Coal Mining at his personal request.”

So, at his personal request, he went to restore the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, which he had blown up. Bringing back to life the destroyed and flooded mines of Donbass was an extremely difficult task in terms of its scale and technical complexity.

The mine is being restored with a pile driver. We had to use previously blown up piledrivers. There were no new metal structures; old ones were used: straightened, bent, welded, riveted. In a short time, several accidents occurred in the Donbass due to the weakness of the headframe designs. A commission of expert scientists was sent from Moscow, headed by A.M. Terpigorev. They studied the condition of the pile drivers and made recommendations. Koper, restored under the leadership of B.F. Bratchenko, existed for a long time, right up to the closure of the mine - which means that the calculation was made with a margin of safety.

During this difficult period, the People's Commissar of the Coal Industry Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev with a group of specialists is in the Donetsk basin. With his characteristic assertiveness, he forced himself and his subordinates to work, as they say, without sleep or rest, to do one thing with full dedication - to raise a swimming pool from the ruins so that metallurgical and defense plants could produce more weapons, so that the destroyed national economy could be restored faster. The scale and pace of restoration work is amazing: out of 314 destroyed mines, 220 were restored almost simultaneously!

At the same time, the young head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine met the People's Commissar and promised him to introduce a second lava by Soviet Army Day - obligations in those conditions were almost unthinkable (Vakhrushev himself doubted their feasibility). It was necessary to restore the ventilation drift in three weeks. But Bratchenko kept his word - by the anniversary of the holiday, the mine began to produce coal "on the mountain" with the simultaneous restoration of workings and preparation of the work front. It was at this time that Boris Fedorovich received his first award and a congratulatory telegram from Stalin.

From 1945 to 1949, Boris Fedorovich worked at the Shakhtantracite trust, first as chief engineer, and then as acting. trust manager. In November 1949, in accordance with the order of the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry, Boris Fedorovich was urgently transferred as chief engineer to the Karagandaugol combine - this enterprise in Kazakhstan consisted of two dozen mines with three open pits.

Boris Fedorovich, as the chief engineer, was primarily interested in the technical condition of mining enterprises, the organization of the coal mining process, and the selection of competent personnel; He also paid the necessary attention to other important issues of the plant’s work. His predecessor was relieved of his post for a major accident and immediately left, so there was no one to take over the business. It helped greatly that there were many specialist countrymen in the basin, including Donbass miners who were evacuated during the occupation. The mines were built and put into operation, at each it was necessary to establish an operating mode, create safe working conditions for people - and huge responsibility for the successful solution of the assigned tasks lay on the shoulders of B.F. Bratchenko.

After the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1947, miners received a number of benefits and advantages: annual payments of remuneration for long service, increased pensions and temporary disability benefits, and others. In terms of wages, miners took one of the first places in the country - large earnings consisted of high tariff rates and bonus payments. At the same time, in the Donetsk, Rostov, and Lugansk regions, the latest technology appeared in the faces, which made it possible to achieve the highest labor productivity.

Among the technical innovations, the Donbass shearer has proven itself to be excellent. In Karaganda, they had only heard about “Donbass”, and Boris Fedorovich went straight to the USSR Minister of Coal Industry A.F. Zasyadko with a request to allocate 5 combines to the basin. Alexander Fedorovich listened to the request of the chief engineer of the Karagandaugol plant, promised to send 25 combines and kept his word. Already in February 1950, the “Donbass” came to Karaganda, where they significantly influenced the increase in the labor efficiency of miners and the improvement of working conditions underground.

B.F.’s enormous organizational talent and experience in solving complex problems facing the coal industry at that time deservedly put him forward. Bratchenko among the industry leaders. In 1953, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR, in 1957-58 he was Chairman of the Kamensky Economic Council, First Deputy Chairman of the Rostov Economic Council, and then Head of the Department of Coal, Peat and Shale Industry of the USSR State Planning Committee. Since 1959 he worked as chairman of the Karaganda Economic Council, from 1961 to 1965 - chairman of the State Planning Committee - deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR.

From 1965 to 1985 B.F. Bratchenko holds the post of Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR - a position with enormous powers, opportunities, duties and responsibilities. He had an important mission: after the liquidation of the economic councils, to bring the country's coal industry into a mode of independent activity, to reach the level of the advanced coal industries of Western countries, and to find fresh forces for scientific and technical restructuring.

Two decades of creative work as minister inscribed the name of Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko in golden letters in the history of the state. Over these years, coal production in the country increased by more than 1.3 times and in 1985 amounted to 718 million tons.

The efficiency of solving the problems facing the industry was facilitated by the good mutual understanding of the minister with the people from his “team”, which consisted of professionals of the highest level, such as the first deputy minister (and his friend) Leonid Efimovich Grafov - a man with comprehensive knowledge of coal production and the unique qualities of a charming, diplomatic leader - and many others. The ministry's board (the industry's think tank) has achieved perfection in its extraordinary ability to find and make optimal decisions, often justifiably risky.

Truly great construction projects in the largest coal basins of the USSR are associated with the name of Bratchenko. Large, highly mechanized coal and shale enterprises were created and reconstructed, such as the Raspadskaya mine in Kuzbass, Vorgashorskaya in the Pechora basin, Tentekskaya in Karaganda, Estonia in the Baltics, the Bogatyr open-pit mine in Ekibastuz, and a large coal open-pit mine in Yakutia. , the Siberia processing plant in the Kemerovo region and others, and at the same time living conditions were created and subsidiary agriculture was developed to provide miners' families with food. A huge amount of work has been done to develop large raw material bases in Siberia with the creation of the Kansk-Achinsk, Ekibastuz and South Yakutsk fuel and energy complexes, which are now the basis for increasing the production potential of these regions.

Under Bratchenko, a powerful scientific and technical base was created for the development of modern technologies in the mining industry. Institutes and factories designed and manufactured powerful complexes for the underground workers, and powerful giant excavators for the openers. As a result, teams of miners achieved unprecedented efficiency in underground mining operations, record volumes of coal production and labor productivity in open-pit mines.

This period was the most creative for the coal industry in all areas. It accounts for the intensive development of mutually beneficial industrial and scientific-technical foreign relations. Of course, all this was the result of sound economic policy; The industry was led by experienced specialists who rose to the top of power, successively moving through the ranks. This characteristic fully applies to Boris Fedorovich, who has always been and still remains a bright Personality - a man of enormous knowledge in the field of mining and humanities, unique practice of production management, a psychologist, an artist, an interesting conversationalist...

Since the early 1990s, Boris Fedorovich stood at the origins of the creation of the Academy of Mining Sciences and was elected its honorary president, took an active part in the development of the Law on Coal and in the work of the Rosugol company to restructure the industry.

And currently he is actively working. Since 1998, he has been an adviser to the director of the State Institution on the reorganization and liquidation of unprofitable mines and open-pit mines (GURSH). For many years B.F. Bratchenko heads the Shakhtar Council of War and Labor Veterans, which unites more than 800 people in its ranks. Since 1992, he has worked as first deputy editor-in-chief of the industry magazine "Coal".

Boris Fedorovich - Hero of Socialist Labor (1982), laureate of the State Prize (1949, for the development and implementation of powerful cutting machines). He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the VI-X convocations, was a delegate to the XXII-XXVI Congresses of the CPSU, a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee, and a member of the CPSU Central Committee at the XXIV-XXVI Congresses. He was the chairman of the Soviet part of the CMEA Standing Commission on the Coal Industry.

He was awarded four Orders of Lenin (1948, 1966, 1971, 1981), the Order of the October Revolution (1976), the Red Banner of Labor (1956), fourteen medals, among which the most expensive medal for him is “For the restoration of Donbass coal mines” (1948). Awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry" (1995), holder of the "Miner's Glory" badge of all three degrees. For his great contribution to the development of the coal industry and many years of conscientious work, Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko, on the eve of his 90th birthday, was thanked by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.

Lives and works in Moscow.

Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko(-) - Soviet party and statesman, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR, Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR (1965-1985).

Biography

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Bratchenko's grave at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Born into the family of an employee on October 26 (November 9), 1912 in Armavir (now Krasnodar Territory).

• engineer of the technical department of the trust,
• assistant chief engineer of the trust (since 1938),
• chief engineer of the trust (since 1940),
• head of the trust mine (since 1942).

Awards and titles

• Hero of Socialist Labor (),
• four Orders of Lenin ( , , , ),
• Order of the October Revolution (),
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (),
• medals
• Stalin Prize of the third degree () - for the development and implementation of powerful cutting machines in the coal industry
• Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry (),
• sign "Miner's Glory" of all three degrees.

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Born on October 9, 1912 in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory. Father - Bratchenko Fedor Nazarovich. Mother - Bratchenko Polina Aleksandrovna. Wife - Bratchenko Klara Samoilovna. Sons: Bratchenko Vladimir Borisovich, Bratchenko Alexander Borisovich. Granddaughter - Bratchenko Ekaterina, grandson - Bratchenko Boris.

Boris developed thriftiness as a character trait largely thanks to the large, hardworking family of his grandfather, Alexei Ivanovich, all of whose members worked conscientiously - both for the landowner at the mill and for their own wealth in their own farmstead.

During his school years, Boris lived with his mother, helped her unfailingly, and studied diligently. From a young age, he strove to become a leader in any business - he was not inferior to leadership among his peers either in the Pioneer organization or in the Komsomol. After graduating from high school, Boris decides to become an engineer, and soon the family received the news of his enrollment in the Moscow Mining Institute with great joy.

And among students, despite his younger age, Boris Bratchenko did not miss leadership. Seriousness, diligence, and initiative gradually developed into authority - already in the 1st year of the institute he was elected head of the group.

The first initiation into the mining business took place during an internship at a mine under construction named after the OGPU in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region. Boris and his classmates participated in all mining operations and carried them out efficiently. The first lava at the mine was prepared with the participation of students from the Mining Institute.

Industrial practice underground with smart specialists, studying mining sciences with famous scientists A.A. Skochinsky, A.M. Terpigorev, other equally wise teachers, helped B.F. Bratchenko to become a professional with deep knowledge and a broad outlook.

After graduating from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1935, Boris Fedorovich worked as an assistant to the chief, head of the section of the Kapitalnaya mine No. 2 of the Kizelugol trust, an engineer in the technical department of the Shakhtantracite trust, then as an assistant to the chief engineer of the October Revolution mine of the same trust. In 1940, he was appointed chief engineer of the M.V. mine. Frunze in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region.

The news of the beginning of the war was brought to the chief engineer Bratchenko in the early morning of June 22, 1941 by a messenger from the military registration and enlistment office. Every day the front line was rapidly moving to the east, and it was necessary to evacuate people and equipment into the interior of the country, disable the mines so that they would not fall to the enemy. In 1942, already as the head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, B.F. Bratchenko supervised the dismantling and dispatch of equipment, the evacuation of specialists to the Urals, Kuzbass, and Karaganda. What they could not remove was blown up, including the mine shaft and pile driver.

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The Nazis devastated and scorched the earth. In the city of Shakhty alone, they killed about 14 thousand people; they threw more than 3,500 innocent victims into the shaft of the Krasin mine, including the sister of Boris Fedorovich’s wife. None of the mines of union and local significance that operated in the region have survived.

From the city of Shakhty B.F. Bratchenko was sent east, to Khakassia, where his family - his wife and two children - were evacuated. He stayed with his family for less than a day - he was summoned to Moscow to the People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of the USSR and was appointed senior district engineer of the production department, and then transferred to the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR as an assistant to the head of the secretariat of the coal industry group. But already at the beginning of September 1943, after the liberation of Donbass from the fascist invaders, an entry appeared in Boris Fedorovich’s work book: “Released from work in the Administration of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in connection with secondment at the disposal of the People’s Commissariat of Coal Mining at his personal request.”

So, at his personal request, he went to restore the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, which he had blown up. Bringing back to life the destroyed and flooded mines of Donbass was an extremely difficult task in terms of its scale and technical complexity.

The mine is being restored with a pile driver. We had to use previously blown up piledrivers. There were no new metal structures; old ones were used: straightened, bent, welded, riveted. In a short time, several accidents occurred in the Donbass due to the weakness of the headframe designs. A commission of expert scientists was sent from Moscow, headed by A.M. Terpigorev. They studied the condition of the pile drivers and made recommendations. Koper, restored under the leadership of B.F. Bratchenko, existed for a long time, right up to the closure of the mine - which means that the calculation was made with a margin of safety.

During this difficult period, the People's Commissar of the Coal Industry Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev with a group of specialists is in the Donetsk basin. With his characteristic assertiveness, he forced himself and his subordinates to work, as they say, without sleep or rest, to do one thing with full dedication - to raise a swimming pool from the ruins so that metallurgical and defense plants could produce more weapons, so that the destroyed national economy could be restored faster. The scale and pace of restoration work is amazing: out of 314 destroyed mines, 220 were restored almost simultaneously!

At the same time, the young head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine met the People's Commissar and promised him to introduce a second lava by Soviet Army Day - obligations in those conditions were almost unthinkable (Vakhrushev himself doubted their feasibility). It was necessary to restore the ventilation drift in three weeks. But Bratchenko kept his word - by the anniversary of the holiday, the mine began to produce coal "on the mountain" with the simultaneous restoration of workings and preparation of the work front. It was at this time that Boris Fedorovich received his first award and a congratulatory telegram from Stalin.

From 1945 to 1949, Boris Fedorovich worked at the Shakhtantracite trust, first as chief engineer, and then as acting. trust manager. In November 1949, in accordance with the order of the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry, Boris Fedorovich was urgently transferred as chief engineer to the Karagandaugol combine - this enterprise in Kazakhstan consisted of two dozen mines with three open pits.

Boris Fedorovich, as the chief engineer, was primarily interested in the technical condition of mining enterprises, the organization of the coal mining process, and the selection of competent personnel; He also paid the necessary attention to other important issues of the plant’s work. His predecessor was relieved of his post for a major accident and immediately left, so there was no one to take over the business. It helped greatly that there were many specialist countrymen in the basin, including Donbass miners who were evacuated during the occupation. The mines were built and put into operation, at each it was necessary to establish an operating mode, create safe working conditions for people - and huge responsibility for the successful solution of the assigned tasks lay on the shoulders of B.F. Bratchenko.

After the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1947, miners received a number of benefits and advantages: annual payments of remuneration for long service, increased pensions and temporary disability benefits, and others. In terms of wages, miners took one of the first places in the country - large earnings consisted of high tariff rates and bonus payments. At the same time, in the Donetsk, Rostov, and Lugansk regions, the latest technology appeared in the faces, which made it possible to achieve the highest labor productivity.

Among the technical innovations, the Donbass shearer has proven itself to be excellent. In Karaganda, they had only heard about “Donbass”, and Boris Fedorovich went straight to the USSR Minister of Coal Industry A.F. Zasyadko with a request to allocate 5 combines to the basin. Alexander Fedorovich listened to the request of the chief engineer of the Karagandaugol plant, promised to send 25 combines and kept his word. Already in February 1950, the “Donbass” came to Karaganda, where they significantly influenced the increase in the labor efficiency of miners and the improvement of working conditions underground.

B.F.’s enormous organizational talent and experience in solving complex problems facing the coal industry at that time deservedly put him forward. Bratchenko among the industry leaders. In 1953, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR, in 1957-58 he was Chairman of the Kamensky Economic Council, First Deputy Chairman of the Rostov Economic Council, and then Head of the Department of Coal, Peat and Shale Industry of the USSR State Planning Committee. Since 1959 he worked as chairman of the Karaganda Economic Council, from 1961 to 1965 - chairman of the State Planning Committee - deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR.

From 1965 to 1985 B.F. Bratchenko holds the post of Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR - a position with enormous powers, opportunities, duties and responsibilities. He had an important mission: after the liquidation of the economic councils, to bring the country's coal industry into a mode of independent activity, to reach the level of the advanced coal industries of Western countries, and to find fresh forces for scientific and technical restructuring.

Two decades of creative work as minister inscribed the name of Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko in golden letters in the history of the state. Over these years, coal production in the country increased by more than 1.3 times and in 1985 amounted to 718 million tons.

The efficiency of solving the problems facing the industry was facilitated by the good mutual understanding of the minister with the people from his “team”, which consisted of professionals of the highest level, such as the first deputy minister (and his friend) Leonid Efimovich Grafov - a man with comprehensive knowledge of coal production and the unique qualities of a charming, diplomatic leader - and many others. The ministry's board (the industry's think tank) has achieved perfection in its extraordinary ability to find and make optimal decisions, often justifiably risky.

Truly great construction projects in the largest coal basins of the USSR are associated with the name of Bratchenko. Large, highly mechanized coal and shale enterprises were created and reconstructed, such as the Raspadskaya mine in Kuzbass, Vorgashorskaya in the Pechora basin, Tentekskaya in Karaganda, Estonia in the Baltics, the Bogatyr open-pit mine in Ekibastuz, and a large coal open-pit mine in Yakutia. , the Siberia processing plant in the Kemerovo region and others, and at the same time living conditions were created and subsidiary agriculture was developed to provide miners' families with food. A huge amount of work has been done to develop large raw material bases in Siberia with the creation of the Kansk-Achinsk, Ekibastuz and South Yakutsk fuel and energy complexes, which are now the basis for increasing the production potential of these regions.

Under Bratchenko, a powerful scientific and technical base was created for the development of modern technologies in the mining industry. Institutes and factories designed and manufactured powerful complexes for the underground workers, and powerful giant excavators for the openers. As a result, teams of miners achieved unprecedented efficiency in underground mining operations, record volumes of coal production and labor productivity in open-pit mines.

This period was the most creative for the coal industry in all areas. It accounts for the intensive development of mutually beneficial industrial and scientific-technical foreign relations. Of course, all this was the result of sound economic policy; The industry was led by experienced specialists who rose to the top of power, successively moving through the ranks. This characteristic fully applies to Boris Fedorovich, who has always been and still remains a bright Personality - a man of enormous knowledge in the field of mining and humanities, unique practice of production management, a psychologist, an artist, an interesting conversationalist...

Since the early 1990s, Boris Fedorovich stood at the origins of the creation of the Academy of Mining Sciences and was elected its honorary president, took an active part in the development of the Law on Coal and in the work of the Rosugol company to restructure the industry.

And currently he is actively working. Since 1998, he has been an adviser to the director of the State Institution on the reorganization and liquidation of unprofitable mines and open-pit mines (GURSH). For many years B.F. Bratchenko heads the Shakhtar Council of War and Labor Veterans, which unites more than 800 people in its ranks. Since 1992, he has worked as first deputy editor-in-chief of the industry magazine "Coal".

Boris Fedorovich - Hero of Socialist Labor (1982), laureate of the State Prize (1949, for the development and implementation of powerful cutting machines). He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the VI-X convocations, was a delegate to the XXII-XXVI Congresses of the CPSU, a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee, and a member of the CPSU Central Committee at the XXIV-XXVI Congresses. He was the chairman of the Soviet part of the CMEA Standing Commission on the Coal Industry.

He was awarded four Orders of Lenin (1948, 1966, 1971, 1981), the Order of the October Revolution (1976), the Red Banner of Labor (1956), fourteen medals, among which the most expensive medal for him is “For the restoration of Donbass coal mines” (1948). Awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry" (1995), holder of the "Miner's Glory" badge of all three degrees. For his great contribution to the development of the coal industry and many years of conscientious work, Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko, on the eve of his 90th birthday, was thanked by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.

Lives and works in Moscow.

Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR (1965-1985), Honorary President of the Academy of Mining Sciences, Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry

Born on October 9, 1912 in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory. Father - Bratchenko Fedor Nazarovich. Mother - Bratchenko Polina Aleksandrovna. Wife - Bratchenko Klara Samoilovna. Sons: Bratchenko Vladimir Borisovich, Bratchenko Alexander Borisovich. Granddaughter - Bratchenko Ekaterina, grandson - Bratchenko Boris.

Boris developed thriftiness as a character trait largely thanks to the large, hardworking family of his grandfather, Alexei Ivanovich, all of whose members worked conscientiously - both for the landowner at the mill and for their own wealth in their own farmstead.
During his school years, Boris lived with his mother, helped her unfailingly, and studied diligently. From a young age, he strove to become a leader in any business - he was not inferior to leadership among his peers either in the Pioneer organization or in the Komsomol. After graduating from high school, Boris decides to become an engineer, and soon the family received the news of his enrollment in the Moscow Mining Institute with great joy.
And among students, despite his younger age, Boris Bratchenko did not miss leadership. Seriousness, diligence, and initiative gradually developed into authority - already in the 1st year of the institute he was elected head of the group.
The first initiation into the mining business took place during an internship at a mine under construction named after the OGPU in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region. Boris and his classmates participated in all mining operations and carried them out efficiently. The first lava at the mine was prepared with the participation of students from the Mining Institute.
Industrial practice underground with smart specialists, studying mining sciences with famous scientists A.A. Skochinsky, A.M. Terpigorev, other equally wise teachers, helped B.F. Bratchenko to become a professional with deep knowledge and a broad outlook.
After graduating from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1935, Boris Fedorovich worked as an assistant to the chief, head of the section of the Kapitalnaya mine No. 2 of the Kizelugol trust, an engineer in the technical department of the Shakhtantracite trust, then as an assistant to the chief engineer of the October Revolution mine of the same trust. In 1940, he was appointed chief engineer of the M.V. mine. Frunze in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region.
The news of the beginning of the war was brought to the chief engineer Bratchenko in the early morning of June 22, 1941 by a messenger from the military registration and enlistment office. Every day the front line was rapidly moving to the east, and it was necessary to evacuate people and equipment into the interior of the country, disable the mines so that they would not fall to the enemy. In 1942, already as the head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, B.F. Bratchenko supervised the dismantling and dispatch of equipment, the evacuation of specialists to the Urals, Kuzbass, and Karaganda. What they could not remove was blown up, including the mine shaft and pile driver.
...The Nazis devastated and scorched the earth. In the city of Shakhty alone, they killed about 14 thousand people; they threw more than 3,500 innocent victims into the shaft of the Krasin mine, including the sister of Boris Fedorovich’s wife. None of the mines of union and local significance that operated in the region have survived.
From the city of Shakhty B.F. Bratchenko was sent east, to Khakassia, where his family - his wife and two children - were evacuated. He stayed with his family for less than a day - he was summoned to Moscow to the People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of the USSR and was appointed senior district engineer of the production department, and then transferred to the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR as an assistant to the head of the secretariat of the coal industry group. But already at the beginning of September 1943, after the liberation of Donbass from the fascist invaders, an entry appeared in Boris Fedorovich’s work book: “Released from work in the Administration of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in connection with secondment at the disposal of the People’s Commissariat of Coal Mining at his personal request.”
So, at his personal request, he went to restore the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine, which he had blown up. Bringing back to life the destroyed and flooded mines of Donbass was an extremely difficult task in terms of its scale and technical complexity.
The mine is being restored with a pile driver. We had to use previously blown up piledrivers. There were no new metal structures; old ones were used: straightened, bent, welded, riveted. In a short time, several accidents occurred in the Donbass due to the weakness of the headframe designs. A commission of expert scientists was sent from Moscow, headed by A.M. Terpigorev. They studied the condition of the pile drivers and made recommendations. Koper, restored under the leadership of B.F. Bratchenko, existed for a long time, right up to the closure of the mine - which means that the calculation was made with a margin of safety.
During this difficult period, the People's Commissar of the Coal Industry Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev with a group of specialists is in the Donetsk basin. With his characteristic assertiveness, he forced himself and his subordinates to work, as they say, without sleep or rest, to do one thing with full dedication - to raise a swimming pool from the ruins so that metallurgical and defense plants could produce more weapons, so that the destroyed national economy could be restored faster. The scale and pace of restoration work is amazing: out of 314 destroyed mines, 220 were restored almost simultaneously!
At the same time, the young head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda mine met the People's Commissar and promised him to introduce a second lava by Soviet Army Day - obligations in those conditions were almost unthinkable (Vakhrushev himself doubted their feasibility). It was necessary to restore the ventilation drift in three weeks. But Bratchenko kept his word - by the anniversary of the holiday, the mine began to produce coal "on the mountain" with the simultaneous restoration of workings and preparation of the work front. It was at this time that Boris Fedorovich received his first award and a congratulatory telegram from Stalin.
From 1945 to 1949, Boris Fedorovich worked at the Shakhtantracite trust, first as chief engineer, and then as acting. trust manager. In November 1949, in accordance with the order of the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry, Boris Fedorovich was urgently transferred as chief engineer to the Karagandaugol combine - this enterprise in Kazakhstan consisted of two dozen mines with three open pits.
Boris Fedorovich, as the chief engineer, was primarily interested in the technical condition of mining enterprises, the organization of the coal mining process, and the selection of competent personnel; He also paid the necessary attention to other important issues of the plant’s work. His predecessor was relieved of his post for a major accident and immediately left, so there was no one to take over the business. It helped greatly that there were many specialist countrymen in the basin, including Donbass miners who were evacuated during the occupation. The mines were built and put into operation, at each it was necessary to establish an operating mode, create safe working conditions for people - and huge responsibility for the successful solution of the assigned tasks lay on the shoulders of B.F. Bratchenko.
After the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1947, miners received a number of benefits and advantages: annual payments of remuneration for long service, increased pensions and temporary disability benefits, and others. In terms of wages, miners took one of the first places in the country - large earnings consisted of high tariff rates and bonus payments. At the same time, in the Donetsk, Rostov, and Lugansk regions, the latest technology appeared in the faces, which made it possible to achieve the highest labor productivity.
Among the technical innovations, the Donbass shearer has proven itself to be excellent. In Karaganda, they had only heard about “Donbass”, and Boris Fedorovich went straight to the USSR Minister of Coal Industry A.F. Zasyadko with a request to allocate 5 combines to the basin. Alexander Fedorovich listened to the request of the chief engineer of the Karagandaugol plant, promised to send 25 combines and kept his word. Already in February 1950, the “Donbass” came to Karaganda, where they significantly influenced the increase in the labor efficiency of miners and the improvement of working conditions underground.
B.F.’s enormous organizational talent and experience in solving complex problems facing the coal industry at that time deservedly put him forward. Bratchenko among the industry leaders. In 1953, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR, in 1957-58 he was Chairman of the Kamensky Economic Council, First Deputy Chairman of the Rostov Economic Council, and then Head of the Department of Coal, Peat and Shale Industry of the USSR State Planning Committee. Since 1959 he worked as chairman of the Karaganda Economic Council, from 1961 to 1965 - chairman of the State Planning Committee - deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR.
From 1965 to 1985 B.F. Bratchenko holds the post of Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR - a position with enormous powers, opportunities, duties and responsibilities. He had an important mission: after the liquidation of the economic councils, to bring the country's coal industry into a mode of independent activity, to reach the level of the advanced coal industries of Western countries, and to find fresh forces for scientific and technical restructuring.
Two decades of creative work as minister inscribed the name of Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko in golden letters in the history of the state. Over these years, coal production in the country increased by more than 1.3 times and in 1985 amounted to 718 million tons.
The efficiency of solving the problems facing the industry was facilitated by the good mutual understanding of the minister with the people from his “team”, which consisted of professionals of the highest level, such as the first deputy minister (and his friend) Leonid Efimovich Grafov - a man with comprehensive knowledge of coal production and the unique qualities of a charming, diplomatic leader - and many others. The ministry's board (the industry's think tank) has achieved perfection in its extraordinary ability to find and make optimal decisions, often justifiably risky.
Truly great construction projects in the largest coal basins of the USSR are associated with the name of Bratchenko. Large, highly mechanized coal and shale enterprises were created and reconstructed, such as the Raspadskaya mine in Kuzbass, Vorgashorskaya in the Pechora basin, Tentekskaya in Karaganda, Estonia in the Baltics, the Bogatyr open-pit mine in Ekibastuz, and a large coal open-pit mine in Yakutia. , the Siberia processing plant in the Kemerovo region and others, and at the same time living conditions were created and subsidiary agriculture was developed to provide miners' families with food. A huge amount of work has been done to develop large raw material bases in Siberia with the creation of the Kansk-Achinsk, Ekibastuz and South Yakutsk fuel and energy complexes, which are now the basis for increasing the production potential of these regions.
Under Bratchenko, a powerful scientific and technical base was created for the development of modern technologies in the mining industry. Institutes and factories designed and manufactured powerful complexes for the underground workers, and powerful giant excavators for the openers. As a result, teams of miners achieved unprecedented efficiency in underground mining operations, record volumes of coal production and labor productivity in open-pit mines.
This period was the most creative for the coal industry in all areas. It accounts for the intensive development of mutually beneficial industrial and scientific-technical foreign relations. Of course, all this was the result of sound economic policy; The industry was led by experienced specialists who rose to the top of power, successively moving through the ranks. This characteristic fully applies to Boris Fedorovich, who has always been and still remains a bright Personality - a man of enormous knowledge in the field of mining and humanities, unique practice of production management, a psychologist, an artist, an interesting conversationalist...
Since the early 1990s, Boris Fedorovich stood at the origins of the creation of the Academy of Mining Sciences and was elected its honorary president, took an active part in the development of the Law on Coal and in the work of the Rosugol company to restructure the industry.
And currently he is actively working. Since 1998, he has been an adviser to the director of the State Institution on the reorganization and liquidation of unprofitable mines and open-pit mines (GURSH). For many years B.F. Bratchenko heads the Shakhtar Council of War and Labor Veterans, which unites more than 800 people in its ranks. Since 1992, he has worked as first deputy editor-in-chief of the industry magazine "Coal".
Boris Fedorovich - Hero of Socialist Labor (1982), laureate of the State Prize (1949, for the development and implementation of powerful cutting machines). He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the VI-X convocations, was a delegate to the XXII-XXVI Congresses of the CPSU, a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee, and a member of the CPSU Central Committee at the XXIV-XXVI Congresses. He was the chairman of the Soviet part of the CMEA Standing Commission on the Coal Industry.
Author of a number of books, brochures and articles on the development of the coal industry of the USSR and foreign countries, editor of many publications in the field of the coal industry, author of a number of inventions.
He was awarded four Orders of Lenin (1948, 1966, 1971, 1981), the Order of the October Revolution (1976), the Red Banner of Labor (1956), fourteen medals, among which the most expensive medal for him is “For the restoration of Donbass coal mines” (1948). Awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry" (1995), holder of the "Miner's Glory" badge of all three degrees. For his great contribution to the development of the coal industry and many years of conscientious work, Boris Fedorovich Bratchenko, on the eve of his 90th birthday, was thanked by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.
Lives and works in Moscow.