Biography of General Dementiev

Born on January 11 24 of the year in the village of Ubya Buinsky district of the Kazan province now - the Drozhzhanovsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan in the teacher of the teacher. He worked at the factory from the year. In the year he graduated from the Simbirsk Professional and Technical School, in the year-the Moscow Mechanical Institute named after M. Lomonosov, in the year-the N.

Air Academy of Academy, after graduating from the Academy in the year, was appointed senior engineer and head of the operational and technical department of the Research Institute of the Civil Air Fleet. In the years he was the head of the workshop and the director of the Tushino aircraft factor. Since February, the First Deputy People's Commissioner of the Aviation Industry of the USSR.

He held this post throughout the Great Patriotic War in its focus on the reconstruction of the Soviet Air Force, almost completely destroyed in the early days of the Great Patriotic War. He did a lot of work on urgent evacuation of aviation and related enterprises in the years of evacuated by aviation industry enterprises, on the restructuring of the aviation industry on military rails.

He made a great contribution to the organization of the production of combat aircraft and other aircraft equipment and their provision of the army. For outstanding achievements in the field of organization and implementation of serial production of new types of combat aircraft, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 8, Dementiev Peter Vasilievich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Avid “Sickle and the Hammer”.

Since March - Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR. Dementiev became Deputy Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR. However, already on August 24, he was appointed Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR and headed this industry until his death almost 24 years. The name of the department has repeatedly changed: on December 14 of the year it was reorganized to the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for aviation technology, on March 14 - in the State Committee for Aviation Technology of the USSR, on March 2, it was reorganized to the ministry.

All these departments were unlimited by P. Its role in the development of the aviation industry and in the formation of the USSR as the Great Aviation Power is extremely great. The Soviet Union has become one of the few states that can independently produce all types of military and civilian aircraft and helicopters, and at a high world level. The re -equipment of aviation on jet aircraft was successfully carried out.

The Soviet aviation industry played a large role in the creation of domestic cosmonautics. In the memoirs of contemporaries, P. Dementiev is invariably characterized as an outstanding organizer, an engineer with the gift of scientific foresight, a person of state thinking, iron will and an adamant nature.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 21, for great merits in the development of the aviation industry and in connection with the seventy years of the birth of Dementiev, Pyotr Vasilievich was awarded the Order of Lenin and the second gold medal "Sickle and the Hammer". He lived in the city of Moscow. He died on May 14. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

Major General of the Engineering and Aviation Service General Lieutenant General of the Aviation Service, Colonel-Engineer, was awarded 9 Orders of Lenin 5. The laureate of the Stalin Prize Bronze Bust P. Dementiev was installed in Kazan. Also in the year the bust was installed in the village of Drozhzhany Republic of Tatarstan. In the year, his name was assigned to the Moscow Aviation Production Association The former Banner of Labor plant.

In the year-to the Kazan Aviation Technological College. The memorial plaque is installed in Kazan on the street of his name.