Ivan Okunev Biography

The official biography of Ivan Vasilievich Okunev is small and dry, and does not convey the thousandth of his significance as a person and leader. Meanwhile, the employees of the Uralvagonzavod and the residents of the lining, when he was, knew everything about him! Okunev was always in full view of people - he went to the factory on the same streets, worked with everyone on subbotniks and went on holidays, came to schools and told the children about the history of the plant and the region.

Everything that Ivan Vasilievich did at the factory and in the area was aimed at improving the life and well -being of residents of the lining - building housing and opening kindergartens and schools, cleanliness in factory workshops and landscaping of courtyards and squares. Okunev paid great attention to the development of production: the introduction of a new progressive equipment, the production of new products, and the training of qualified personnel for UVZ.

So he was known as the “People’s Director”, because always with the people and everything for him. Ivan Vasilievich Okunev was born on June 16 in the village of Lebyazhy, the Vyatka province. Childhood, adolescence and youth passed in the village. After graduating from teaching courses, he began to teach at a rural school, he was in charge of the district orphanage.

He was elected secretary of the Lebyazhinsky rural committee of the Komsomol and became the head of the district department of public education. In the year he graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute and worked for two years in one of the factory schools in Sverdlovsk. Arriving in M ​​at Uralvagonzavod, Okunev went from master to chief technologist. The leadership of the plant was not afraid to entrust him with the most responsible tasks.

During the war years, with its direct participation in the plant, various technological innovations were introduced, progressive technologies-in particular, the world's first flow-conveyor production of tanks. In the fall, he was set to lead the preparation for the transfer of the plant to peaceful products - the resumption of the production of wagons.

Ivan Vasilievich led UVZ for 20 years-longer than anyone else. Under it, the company entered the top ten largest production associations of the country. Under him, the Dzerzhinsky district turned from a hut village into the most convenient and beautiful area of ​​the city. In the X years, the district constantly became the winner of the city social media.

Ivan Vasilievich became one of the first to be awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Nizhny Tagil." Kuzin "Permanent Director" of El.