Boris Petrovich Zverev, a great Russian scientist and organizer of production, has an endless series of major discoveries and technological implementations. He is the author of many inventions, including those on nuclear subjects.
B.P. Zverev is the winner of the highest Lenin Prize in the Soviet Union and three State Prizes, and some of them do not even comment on which inventions they were awarded for. And so far, these discoveries and technologies have not been cleared of secrecy.
Boris Zverev was born on May 28, 1915 in the village of Torokhovo near Tula. His father worked as an assistant director for hire at the Tula Arms Factory.
Even as a child, the boy's talent manifested itself – at the age of eight he came to study immediately in the third grade. In 1930, after graduating from high school, he entered the Bobrikovsky (Stalinogorsk) Chemical College.
Boris Petrovich's career began in 1933 at the Moscow experimental plant. He worked as an apparatchik, foreman, assistant, and later as the head of experimental production facilities for the synthesis of new organic compounds. His consultant was Professor P.G. Sergeev, a student of academician A. E. Chichibabin, who instilled in him, according to Boris Petrovich himself, a love for "big chemistry."
One of the topics that B.P. Zverev worked on in Moscow was the development of a technology for the industrial production of organic glass, which became famous in 1928 under the brand name Plexiglas in Germany, and found application in aviation in the early 1930s to create glazing for the cockpit canopy, combining optical transparency, shatterproof, weatherproof, as well as insensitivity to the effects of aviation fuel, alcohols and mineral oils.
In 1939, a 24-year-old engineer was sent to the city of Dzerzhinsk to plant 148 to organize production for the production of particularly durable plexiglass and products made from it. He successfully fulfilled all the duties assigned to him. But in May 1942, chemical engineer Boris Petrovich Zverev was unexpectedly arrested. He and two other colleagues were accused of turning green the glazing of Soviet aircraft cabins too quickly. The "German spies" would have had a bad time if the son of the leader of the peoples, Vasily Stalin, who was a pilot himself and understood perfectly well that the accusation was far-fetched, had not intervened in the course of the investigation. The case was dropped. And in 1946, Boris Petrovich Zverev was awarded the Stalin Prize "for the creation and development of the Russian organic glass industry, which was used in the production of transparent aircraft armor. "
This is the story of only one of B.P. Zverev's inventions. In general, the list of discoveries and new industries mastered under his leadership is amazing.
Thus, for the first time in the world, the industrial synthesis of prussic acid was mastered, which is necessary for the extraction of precious metals from ores, in electroplating and silvering, in the production of aromatic substances, chemical fibers, plastics, rubber, organic glass, plant growth stimulants, and herbicides. How many industries have dramatically increased productivity at once, making our country richer and more beautiful!
B.P. Zverev also created the first acetone production plant in the USSR, while abandoning the traditional technology of grain fermentation. According to experts, the new method of producing acetone has saved the country 2 million tons of wheat per year!
During the war, first on an initiative basis, then on the instructions of the People's Commissariat, the production of prisms for glazing the viewing slots of tanks was created. It seems like a trifle, but it helped save the Soviet army thousands of experienced tank drivers.
A special place in the biography of B.P. Zverev and the history of the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant, where he worked recently, was occupied by the organization, on the initiative of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, of the production of domestic mechanical prosthetic heart valves (MPCS). The first spherical MPCS for the mitral position was developed and manufactured in 1963, and for the aortic position in 1964. The MPCS models produced at the plant have entered clinical practice and are still used to correct valvular heart defects. B.P. Zverev was not only the organizer, but also the co-author of several inventions underlying the designs of the MPCS produced.
In general, B.P. Zverev is the author of 40 inventions, some of which, especially those related to nuclear issues, remain closed to wide information coverage to this day.
Boris Petrovich Zverev died on December 17, 1966. Ironically, the man who saved tens of thousands of lives of cores with his inventions, creating MPCS, died two days after heart surgery.
The first farewell ceremony with him took place in Moscow, at the I.V. Kurchatov IAE House of Culture. The leadership of Minsredmash took the initiative to bury the great Russian scientist at the Novodevichy cemetery, but representatives of the plant insisted that Boris Petrovich Zverev be buried in Kirovo-Chepetsk. The funeral took place at the Kirovo-Chepetsk Red Cemetery in the presence of "the whole city. "
In Kirovo-Chepetsk in 1967, a street was named after B.P. Zverev. There is a commemorative plaque on house No. 8 with the inscription: "The street is named after the laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, the engineer-scientist Boris Petrovich Zverev (1915-1966)."
On August 31, 2016, by the decision of the City Duma of Kirovo-Chepetsk, Boris Petrovich Zverev was posthumously awarded the title Honorary Citizen of Kirovo -Chepetsk.
Literature
* Boris Petrovich Zverev. The Epoch Man / comp. V. N. Prokashev. Kirov: VESI Publ., 2015. 186 p.
*Utkin V. V. The plant near the two Rivers. Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant: construction, development, people. — Kirov: House of Printing — Vyatka, 2004. — vol. 1 (1938-1946). — 64 p.
