Alexey Stakhanov
Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977) · Russia · Politicians · Died at 71
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Something wrong?A coal miner who supposedly cut 102 tons in a single shift - fourteen times his quota - and became the Soviet Union's most famous worker overnight, the human poster for Stalin's push to prove socialism could out-produce the world.
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1930-е. Группа людей с портретом Алексея Стаханова
1938. Алексей Стаханов беседует со старыми товарищами по работе
1938. Алексей Стаханов выехал в Донбасс
1938. Алексей Стаханов и Константин Петров спускаются в шахту
1938. Алексей Стаханов передает донбассовцам приветствие от Иосифа Сталина
1938. Лазарь Каганович и Алексей Стаханов
1938. После совещания Алексей Стаханов и Константин Петров гуляют по шахтерскому поселкуAwards
About this person
Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov was born on 3 January 1906 and spent his early years in obscurity before descending into the mines. In 1935, he was thrust into the spotlight as the centerpiece of a state-orchestrated campaign to boost industrial output and shame anyone not matching his pace. The Stakhanovite movement that took his name spread across Soviet industry, turning individual workers into production heroes and tightening the screws on everyone else. He joined the Communist Party in 1936, riding the wave of his engineered fame. By 1970 the state named him Hero of Socialist Labour, a long victory lap for a man whose celebrity was always about the system, not the seam. He died on 5 November 1977.
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