Biography General Shubnikov
Born on May 1 of the year in the city of Essentuki, the Stavropol Territory in the family of a worker worker. Simultaneously with work, he studied at the evening architectural and construction college, which he graduated from the year. For a year, Georgy Maksimovich Shubnikov served in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army as part of the Cavalry Division of the Leningrad Military District.
Having demobilized, worked as a technician-dable in construction organizations of the cities of Essentuki and Pyatigorsk. In the year, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Civil and Industrial Construction, which he graduated in the year. In February, according to special mobilization, Shubnikov was again drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and sent to a separate Red Banner Far Eastern army of the Trans-Baikal Military District, where he first served as the head of the barracks sector, the head of the department of the head of engineers, and then he led the production and technical department of the same department of the Zabaakalsky fortified safety fortyon.
The department was engaged in the construction of the Transbaikal fortified area. Upon completion of defensive work in the year, he was demobilized and until June worked as the chief engineer of the Vodokanal department of the city of Essentuki. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Georgy Maksimovich Shubnikov was appointed as deputy commander of a separate sapper battalion of the sapper brigade, and already in February, the commander of the battalion.
Since the fall of the year, the battalion has been engaged in the construction of defensive lines in the Stalingrad direction. In the year, G. Shubnikov heads a number of departments that conduct successful operations for engineering support for offensive operations. During the summer offensive of the year, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front, which included the construction department of Major Shubnikov, reached the border of the Vistula, captured three bridgeheads on its west coast.
With the year, G. Shubnikov was the head of the Civil Defense Directorate of the Military Field Construction of the Defense Construction of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. The parts that he commanded restored bridges through the Canal in Berlin, the Oder River - in the cities of Frankfurt, Kuustin, across the Vistula, Shpra River, Stallzund, and others, built a number of administrative and cultural buildings in the city of Berlin, the theater building, and the Soviet embassy, the monuments of the dead Soviet soldiers in Berlin, including a remarkable monument, including a wonderful monument The Warrior -Liberator in Treptov - the park according to the project of sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich.
At the end of the 10ths, the team of defensive construction department, led by G. Shubnikov, restored mines in the Donbass, was urgently transferred to Kapustin Yar, the Astrakhan region for the construction of a missile landfill now, the 4th State Central Intervid Polygon of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of the year in the life of Georgy Maksimovich Shubnikov, a new stage began, which laid the foundation for the world's first practical development of space space.
The construction of the village began. In the "Gorodok" located on the spare tracks consisting of tents and seven railway passenger cars, and all construction department officers led by the city were located And exactly seven months later, on October 4, the first artificial satellite of the Earth flew into the cosmic height in the history of mankind. In the meantime, at the same time, the construction of construction detachments, the formation of engineering and construction formations, unloading the flow of goods, which not only the TURA-TAM station, but also the nearest stations, the distribution of work sections, construction planning, construction of access roads and the industrial and construction base, as well as the deployment of other works, were scored.
Georgy Maksimovich Shubnikov carried out a huge titanic work on creating the largest in the world and a unique complex for the implementation of scientific, practical and test work in the field of rocket and space technology with the most powerful infrastructure. These structures are the greatest and worthy monument to him - one of the founders of Baikonur. Even if he built only one start and one installation-test case for the assembly of products displayed by the R-7 launch vehicle, he would still have immortalized his name.
But in ten years of his activity in Baikonur, he built hundreds of other structures. Here is a list of only some of them.