1890 – 1962
Director of “Gipromez”
from 1932 to 1938
He
was born in Alapayevsk, now in Sverdlovsk
region. Since 1905 he was a worker.
Since
1921 – the Deputy Business – Manager of the Council of Labor and Defense,
worked
under the direct leadership of V.I. Lenin.
Since
1929 Zavenyagin was the construction manager of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel
Works.
Being
in the position of the Director of “Gipromez” headed the commission for placing
abroad
the orders for equipment for the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
He
was one of the initiators of establishment of the comprehensive design bureaus
at the large
metallurgical
plants, and at the “Azovstal” works, in particular.
V.A.
Smol’yaninov participated directly in settlement of the problems connected with
the ferrous
metallurgy
development, often he visited as a head of the designing delegations the
metallurgical
plants
under reconstruction or expansion.