Metallurgist of the Country of Soviets (Leonid Emmanuilovich Vaisberg)

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The publication was written by a prominent Soviet and Russian astrophysicist Oleg Leonidovich about his father, the famous Soviet metallurgist L.E. Vaisberg, based on his memoirs, his father's diary entries and a large amount of documentary material preserved in his family archive. It represents a living and concrete cross-section of the life of a Soviet engineer of the pre-war period. In many ways, it reveals the path of the formation of the engineering school of that time, when proactive and knowledgeable people who did their job well quickly moved up the career ladder, doing a great job — carrying out industrialization in the USSR.

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Oleg L. Vaisberg

Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: olegv@iki.rssi.ru
SPIN-code: 5961-6273

Dr. Sci. (Phys.–Math.), Department of Space Plasma

Russian Federation, Moscow

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  1. Zapariy V. V. Vaisberg L. E. / Metallurgists of the Urals: Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., corrected and supplemented. — Ekaterinburg: Publishing house of the Ural. University. 2003. — P. 74.
  2. Zapariy V. V. Researcher of the «solar wind» or a little about Oleg Leonidovich Vaisberg: on the 90th anniversary of his birth // History and modern worldview. 2024. Vol. 6. No. 4. P. 159–165. doi: 10.33693/2658-3. Камынин В. Д., Ю Запарий В. В. Леонид Эммануилович Вайсберг и его роль в производстве броневой стали на Кузнецком металлургическом комбинате // Черные металлы. — 2020. — № 5. — С. 68–73.4654-2024-6-4-159-165.
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2. Fig. 1. Leonid Weisberg (photo taken at the age of 16, when he worked at the factory).

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3. Fig. 2. Student ID card of Leonid Weisberg. Faculty of Ferrous Metallurgy, 3rd year.

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4. Fig. 3. Pass for L.E. Weisberg to the Dzerzhinsky Metallurgical Plant.

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5. Fig. 4. Leonid with his future wife, Kislovodsk, 1932.

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6. Rice. 5. L.E. Weisberg - head of mill 500.

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7. Fig. 6. Cottage in the village of Berezki, where the family of L.E. Weisberg lived.

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8. Fig. 7. On the porch of the cottage, Leonid with Gabriel (behind a basket of flowers), her mother Victoria Aloisievna Beloyartseva (Reut) (far right), their six-month-old son and friends. Summer 1935. Inscription on the back: In memory of the good sides of Magnitka (Magnir).

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9. Fig. 8. Leonid with his wife Gabrielle. Sochi. August 1936.

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10. Fig. 9. Leonid Weisberg in Magnitogorsk.

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11. Fig. 10. Fragment of the newspaper Magnitogorsk Metall.

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12. Fig. 11. Document stating that in June 1937 L.E. Weisberg was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of the Metallurgical Plant for capital construction.

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13. Fig. 12. Together with Gabriel.

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14. Fig. 13. Order stating that in 1936 Pavel Ivanovich Korobov became the director of MMK.

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15. Fig. 14. Resolution on the detention of L.E. Weisberg.

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16. Fig. 15. Order of MMK on the dismissal of L.E. Weisberg.

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17. Fig. 16. Handwritten appeal to Weisberg.

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18. Fig. 17. The order of dismissal from MMK was not cancelled immediately.

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19. Fig. 18. Letter addressed to L.P. Beria.

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