Zaltsman Isaac Moiseevich

Born in 1905 in the village of Tomashpol, Yampolsky district, Podolsk province, in the family of a tailor. Worked at a sugar factory in Ukraine. Member of the Komsomol since 1924, the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) since 1928. In 1933 he graduated from the Odessa Industrial Institute. Worked as a shift foreman at the Putilov plant. In 1938 he headed the plant, managed the plant from the beginning of the war until the evacuation of the plant to Chelyabinsk. At the same time, in October 1941, he was deputy people's commissar of the tank industry. In February 1942, he was appointed director of tank plant No. 183 in Nizhny Tagil. From July 1942 to June 28, 1943 - People's Commissar of the Tank Industry, Major General of the Engineering Tank Service (January 21, 1945). In September 1949 he was expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and removed from the post of plant manager. He worked as a foreman at a machine-building plant in Murom. In 1955 he was reinstated in the CPSU. From 1957 he worked in the Lengorles trust. In 1959 he was appointed director of the mechanical plant of the Leningrad City Executive Committee. Retired in 1986. He died in Leningrad on 17.07.1988.