Voskresensky I. N. (1862-1943), manager of Izhorsky Plants

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VOSKRESENSKY Ivan Nikanorovich (1862-1943), shipbuilder, Lieutenant General in 1913, Professor from 1937, honoured scientist and engineer of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1942. Graduated from the Technical School of the Navy in Kronstadt in 1883 and Nikolaevskaya Marine Academy in 1888, he served as Chief Engineer of Izhorsky Plants from 1895 and as General Manager in 1908-17. Voskresensky was in charge of opening new workshops, helped significantly increase the output of armour and steel, started manufacturing weldless pipes and combustion engines, as well as bomb launchers, mortars, shells, and cases during World War I of 1914-18. The plant provided financial support for construction of residential buildings, a hospital with delivery rooms, a bathhouse, and membership stores in Kolpino. He was a lecturer at the shipbuilding department of St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute from 1904 and Naval Academy in 1920-29. He was one of the organisers of Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (today, Naval Technical University) where he arranged and headed the chairs of general technology, shipbuilding technology, marine engineering technology, and plant management. He was also a lecturer at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute from 1929. Voskeresensky wrote a number of works on shipbuilding.

Reference: Бурим Л. Д., Ефимова Г. А., Лопатенко Н. Л. "Один ответствовать должен...": Очерки о директорах Ижор. з-дов. СПб., 2001. С. 70-75.

L. D. Burim. Voskresensky Ivan Nikanorovich
Бурим Л. Д., Ефимова Г. А., Лопатенко Н. Л. "Один ответствовать должен...": Очерки о директорах Ижор. з-дов. СПб., 2001 Nikolaevsky Naval Academy
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