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Igor Afrikantov
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| Born | 21 October [O.S. ] 1916
Pushkarka, Arzamas county, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
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| Died | 19 July 1969(1969-07-19) (aged 52) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University |
| Occupation | Engineer |
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| Discipline | designer manager of building nuclear reactors |
| Awards | Hero of Socialist Labor |
Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov (Russian: Игорь Иванович Африкантов; 1916 – 1969) was a Soviet designer and manager of building nuclear reactors and components for the Russian nuclear industry, civil fleet, and navy.
Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov was born in Pushkarka, a village in the Arzamas District of Gorky Oblast, Russia. He attended secondary school in Gorky from 1924 to 1934 and attended Gorky Polytechnic Institute from 1934 to 1938, receiving his degree as a shipbuilder and heat engineer.[1]
From 1939 to 1942 - Head of the Design Bureau of the Stalingrad Shipyard (Plant No. 246).
Since 1942 he worked in the city of Gorky at the plant number 92 (Gorky Machine-Building Plant - GMZ):
In 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the development and commissioning of the diffusion plants that provided the production of highly enriched uranium, in 1958 - the Lenin Prize.
II Afrikantov supervised the design of 9 industrial uranium-graphite reactors and 5 heavy water reactors. He headed the work of OKBM to design and master the production of the world's first fast neutron power reactor with sodium coolant BN-350 and BN-600.[2]
In 1998, Afrikantov was named after FSUE OKBM (now the Federal Research and Production Center for Nuclear Engineering OKBM Afrikantov).
In 1960 he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin (in 1951, 1959, and 1960), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1954), the Order of the Red Star (1945), the Order of the Badge of Honor (1944) and the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
