Major General of ITS N. E. Nosovsky 1. About our factory In August 1936, I arrived at the Kalinin Artillery Factory with a referral from the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute. The sixth workshop, where I was sent to work as a foreman, was located on the second site, which was actually the second factory territory. Shortly before that, the facility was attached to the plant. Previously, it was completely independent (as part of a design bureau and a pilot plant under the leadership of the designer-inventor L. V. Kurchevsky, who carried out work on recoilless dynamo-jet guns. In 1936, the work of this design bureau and the pilot plant was discontinued, and the facility with all its facilities, buildings and a significant part of the staff was transferred to our plant). In shop No. 6, the nomenclature of parts and assemblies was still unstable, and the technology was imperfect. The workshop areas were not filled with equipment and were partially empty. So, I ended up in a workshop where the work had only to be adjusted and brought closer to the level of other, advanced workshops of the plant. At first, working as a master was not easy for me. I had an industrial internship only during my studies at the institute. But here, at the milling site, it was necessary to master the work without a pre-developed technology. I had to set standards and prices myself, assign tools for processing and checking parts, set the cutting mode, and determine the machines for manufacturing parts. Of course, there is nothing unusual here. A master, especially one with an engineering degree, is required to do all this, and such a school was very useful for me. The team of workers at my site was heterogeneous in their qualifications, from the 7th to the 2nd category. However, I didn't hesitate to learn from skilled workers. I am especially grateful to the milling machine operator Pyotr Yegorovich Erokhin, my true friend and good adviser. He was a cultured, intelligent and very knowledgea ... Читать далее