Polyakov Viktor Nikolaevich

The first general director of VAZ, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honorary Citizen of Togliatti, Honorary Citizen of the Samara Region.

V.N. Polyakov was born on March 3, 1915 in Tomsk. He began his career in 1930 as an apprentice locksmith. Combining work in production with studies, he successfully graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute in 1938.

From 1938 to 1946 he served in the army. Member of the Great Patriotic War.

In 1946 - 63 he went from a test engineer to the director of the Moscow plant of small cars.

From 1963 - 65 - Deputy Chairman, Chairman of the Council of the National Economy of Moscow.

1965 - 1975 - Deputy Minister of the Automobile Industry of the USSR, General Director of the Volga Automobile Plant.

1975 - 1986 - Minister of the Automobile Industry of the USSR.

1986 - 1992 - expert of the Central Research Automobile and Automotive Institute.

1992 - 1993 - Head of the Consulting Department - Deputy Head of the Moscow Directorate of JSC AVTOVAZ.

1993 - 1999 - head of the consulting department, head of the consulting and expert department of the representative office of JSC AVTOVAZ in Moscow

1999 - 2004 - director of the analytical center of OJSC AVTOVAZ

V. N. Polyakov was awarded four Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Orders for Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Front-line merits were awarded the Orders of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

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From left to right: Viktor Nikolaevich Polyakov - Deputy Minister - General. VAZ director,

Kosygin Alexei Nikolaevich - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, 12/16/1971.

“Viktor Nikolaevich Polyakov was one of the team of the most experienced leaders of the Land of Soviets, among them - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A.N. Kosygin, his deputy V.N. Novikov, Minister of the Automotive Industry A.M. Tarasov. It would not be an exaggeration to say that on the scale of our country, Polyakov played the same role as in America - Ford, who was called the savior of the United States.

Initially, it was planned to appoint another leader as the director of VAZ. Viktor Nikolayevich, who was then Deputy Minister of the Automotive Industry, asked himself to be entrusted with the construction.

“Throughout my life I have never tried to get any position, especially an advanced one. But it was that exceptional case when I myself came to Minister Tarasov, being a deputy minister in charge of production at the Ministry of the Automotive Industry, and asked to be appointed director of the plant.

(Polyakov V.N. The results exceeded all my expectations // Freedom Square. - 2003 - July 18. - S. 1-3)

August 17, 1966 for the 51-year-old Polyakov began the epic of the Volga Automobile. And he withstood this most difficult test with honor - both for a specialist and for a person.

Under the leadership of Polyakov, the most complex project of the 20th century - "USSR-Italy", and specifically - "VAZ-FIAT" was successfully implemented. No one believed in his success in the West. Foreign newspapers wrote that it was a fantasy, not a factory. But Viktor Nikolayevich managed not only to organize the construction of a gigantic enterprise that brought huge profits to the country, but also did everything so that many industries of our country could rise to a new technical level, manufacturing materials and components for VAZ.

One of the merits of Viktor Nikolaevich Polyakov is that he managed to bring up a whole galaxy of talented leaders, thanks to whom AVTOVAZ survived in the most difficult years of the new Russia.

Polyakov was a brilliant strategist and tactician, a far-sighted leader, persistent, consistent, demanding and at the same time very caring. It is no coincidence that at the VAZ he was called Papa ...

(We called him Papa // Volzhsky autobuilder. - 2007. - March 03 (N 38). - P. 1.).

“That's what attracted me to the new plant, that the basis of its concept from the very beginning was the orientation not to the day before yesterday, not yesterday, but to today and even tomorrow of the automotive industry.”

(V.N. Polyakov through the eyes of contemporaries / ed.-ed.: Shavrin A. - 2nd ed., additional - Tolyatti: JSC "AVTOVAZ", 2004. - P. 19)

In 1975, Viktor Nikolaevich was appointed Minister of the Automobile Industry of the USSR. The period of his work at the head of the automotive industry is the peak of the development of the Soviet automotive industry. For eleven years, the Soviet Union has firmly established itself in sixth place in the world in the production of passenger cars (after the USA, Japan, Germany, France and Italy). The volume of annual production of passenger cars steadily began to be about 1.3 million units. And the total number of vehicles renewing the country's fleet has exceeded 2 million vehicles. VAZ, KamAZ, ZIL, GAZ and other car factories of the country developed consistently.

(KUDRIN K. Five General // Freedom Square. - 2001. - March 28 (N 55). - P.8-9.)

In 1992, at the request of the management of JSC AVTOVAZ, Viktor Nikolayevich headed an expert group under the General Director. The group was tasked with such tasks as: general management of the development of a combined feasibility study for all JSC technical development projects, effective allocation of financial resources to ensure technical development plans, development of proposals for changing organizational structures in connection with a change in the tasks for the technical development of JSC...

Under the direct supervision of V.N. Polyakov, such fundamental programs were adopted at the plant and, accordingly, orders were issued, such as “On the technical re-equipment of the plant in connection with the preparation for the production of a new family of VAZ-1118 Kalina cars”, “On additional measures to ensure the competitiveness of cars "VAZ" in market conditions".

(RYZHKOV P.P.V.N. Polyakov: "You are young, this is such happiness!" // Volzhsky autobuilder. - 2007. - March 03 (N 38). - P. 4.).

“I believe in you, in the Volga Automobile Plant, in its team, in its traditions, in the veterans and youth of VAZ. I believe in the fastest self-purification and restoration of the VAZ. And I am proud that the main part of my life was given to this wonderful organism.

(from a speech by V.N. Polyakov at a meeting dedicated to his 80th birthday at the interclub VA Za, March 10, 1995)

RESOURCES

"Vek Polyakov" https://www.lada.ru/lp/polyakov100/

DOCUMENTS AND MATERIALS [from the Library of the Avtograd Cultural Center]

Was and remained the first [Electronic resource]: an electronic version of the bio-bibliographic index published in the MBUK "Library of Avtograd" in 2015: to the 100th anniversary of the first General Director of AvtoVAZ V. N. Polyakov. - , 2015. - . - Text : electronic. - CD-ROM "Electronic resources IBO-2".

Togliatti celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the founder of VAZ: [events in memory of V.N. Polyakova, the main milestones of the labor biography of the first general director of AVTOVAZ] // Volzhskaya commune. - 2015. - March 04 (N 50). - S. 1-2.

V.N. Polyakov through the eyes of his contemporaries / ed.-comp. : Shavrin A. - 2nd ed., add. - Tolyatti: JSC "AVTOVAZ", 2004. - 607 p. : ph. - ISBN 5-8259-0238-4.

VAZ for me is everything! [Text]: on the 90th anniversary of the birth of V. N. Polyakov, the first general director of the Volga Automobile Plant / [ed.-comp. R. Kiseleva]. - Tolyatti: [b. and.], 2005. - 32 p. : ph. - Public speeches by V.N. Polyakova.- Printed in the printing house of DIS JSC "AVTOVAZ".

Vek Polyakova: [a thematic selection of articles about the first general director of AVTOVAZ V.N. Polyakov] // Volzhsky autobuilder. - 2015. - 27 Feb. (N 6). - S. 4-5.

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