In the Soviet Union, much attention was paid to creating their own industrial production. In January 1968, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Mehrentsev was appointed chief engineer of the Kalinin Sverdlovsk Engineering Plant. A day after this ordinary event for the country, a detailed report on the past event was heard in the news release of the Voice of America radio station. Special services of the probable enemy closely monitored personnel movements in the adjacent territory.
Childhood and youth
The future chairman of the regional executive committee was born on August 2, 1925 in an ordinary peasant family. Parents at that time lived in the village of Parashino, on the territory of the Kungursky District of the Perm Territory. My father worked as a broad-profile machine operator on a collective farm. Mother was engaged in housework and raising children. Anatoly from an early age prepared for an independent life. Accustomed to work and responsibility for their actions. At school, the boy studied well. After graduating from seven classes, he entered the engineering college, which was located in the working village of Kungur.
On a labor shift
In 1942, Mehrentsev was drafted into the armed forces. Serve the Urals fell in the Far East. After completing short-term courses at the Aviation Technical School, he was seconded to the famous Pacific Fleet as an aircraft mechanic. Anatoly Alexandrovich took part in hostilities against the Japanese invaders on Sakhalin and on the Korean Peninsula. In 1950, after demobilization, he returned home and completed his studies at a technical school. Then he decided to get a specialized education at the mechanical faculty of the Ural Polytechnic Institute.
In his student years, Mehrentsev was actively engaged in Komsomol work. After defending his diploma, he came to work at the local Machine-Building Plant in distribution. The production career of the young engineer was developing successfully. In early 1970, Anatoly Alexandrovich was appointed director of the plant. Seven years later, an experienced specialist and manager was elected chairman of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Executive Committee. In this position, Mehrentsev had to deal with the problems that have accumulated in the region for decades.
