Stakhanov speaks to a fellow miner

Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov (Russian: Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов) (3 January 1906–1977) was a miner in the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1970), and a member of the CPSU (1936). He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a movement that was intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system. Download high resolution version (821x548, 83 KB)Aleksei Stakhanov (centre) speaking to a fellow miner. ... Download high resolution version (821x548, 83 KB)Aleksei Stakhanov (centre) speaking to a fellow miner. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... Hero of Socialist Labor (Герой Социалистического Труда in Russian, or Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorary title in the Soviet Union and the highest degree of distinction for exceptional achievements in national economy and culture. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Socialism is an ideology with the core belief that society should exist in which certain not-for-profit popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production. ...

Stakhanov was born in Lugovaya near Oryol. In 1927, he began working in a mine called "Tsentralnaya-Irmino" in the town of Kadievka (Donbass). In 1933, Stakhanov was made a jackhammer operator. In 1935, he took a local course in mining. On August 31, 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 tons of coal in 5 hours and 45 minutes (14 times his quota). On September 19, Stakhanov was reported to have set a new record by mining 227 tons of coal in a single shift. Oryol or Orel (Russian: ) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Oryol Oblast. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Categories: Stub | Regions of Ukraine | Ukrainian historical regions ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A portable jackhammer being used to break up a roadsurface in roadworks. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... The word ton or tonne is derived from the Old English tunne, and ultimately from the Old French tonne, and referred originally to a large cask with a capacity of 252 wine gallons, which holds approximately 2100 pounds of water. ... Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (strip mining). ... A quota is a prescribed number or share of something. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of the 24 hours of the clock, rather than a standard working day. ...

In 1936-1941, Stakhanov became a student at the Industrial Academy in Moscow. In 1941-1942, he was appointed director of a mine No. 31 in Karaganda. Between 1943 and 1957, Stakhanov worked in the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR. In 1957-1959, he was deputy director of the Chistyakovantratsit trust, and after that, assistant chief engineer at the mine management office No. 2/43 of the Torezantratsit trust until his retirement in 1974. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ▶ (help· info)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... This article is about the year. ... Statue of Nurken Abdirov in downtown Karaganda Karaganda (Russian: Караганда) or Qaraghandy (Kazak: Қарағанды) is the capital of Qaraghandy Province in Kazakhstan. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In common law legal systems, a trust is a contractual relationship in which a person or entity (the trustee) has legal title to certain property (the trust property or trust corpus), but is bound by a fiduciary duty to exercise that legal control for the benefit of one or more... Retirement is the status of a worker who has stopped working. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Stakhanov was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner and numerous medals. The last Sunday of August was designated "Coal Miner's Day", also apparently in his honor. The Chamber of Deputies is the name given to the lower house of the bicameral legislatures of the following countries: It is also the name given to the unicameral parliaments of the following countries: Historically, the Chamber of Deputies (fr:Chambre des députés) was the lower house of... The Supreme Soviet (Верховный Совет, Verhovniy Sovet, literally the Supreme Council) comprised the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. ... The Order of Lenin (ru: Орден Ленина), named after the leader of the Russian Revolution, was the second highest national order of the Soviet Union (Highest was the Order of Victory). ... The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Battle Red Banner, better-known as the Order of the Red Banner (in Russian: Орден Крaсного Знамени Orden Krasnogo Znameni) on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War. ... A Medal can mean three things: a wearable medal awarded by a government for services to a country (such as Armed force service); strictly speaking this only refers to a medal of coin-like appearance, but informally the word also refers to an Order (decoration); a table medal awarded by... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...

Stakhanov was celebrated as a "model Soviet worker" as part of an effort to encourage workers and peasants to surpass their own quotas. Stakhanov's records set an example throughout the country and gave birth to the Stakhanovite movement. In Soviet history and iconography, a Stakhanovite (стахановец) (or shock-worker) follows the example of Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, employing hard work or Taylorist efficiencies to over-achieve on the job. ...

Validity questioned

Stakhanov's story has often been reported in the United States as an example of Soviet propaganda. For example, in 1985, The New York Times printed a story reporting that though Stakhanov had indeed succeeded in his feat, it was only because the Communist Party had pre-arranged the event as a way of boosting public morale, with many other miners working to help Stakhanov beat the mining record. The Times quoted the chief of the Tsentralnaya-Irmino mine's branch of the Party, Konstantin G. Petrov, as saying that "I suppose Stakhanov need not have been the first... It could have been anybody else. In the final analysis it was not the individual face-worker who determined whether the attempt to break the record would succeed, but the new system of coal extraction."¹ Other sources have questioned whether the event occurred at all. In the context of the Cold War, however, these skeptical stories may themselves be forms of propaganda. Soviet propaganda poster from the Great Patriotic War depicting the victory of war hero General Georgi Zhukov over Nazi Germany. ... This article is about the year. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. ... For the generic term for high-tension and / or indirect struggle between states, falling short of actual open hostilities, see cold war (war). ...

Notes

Note 1: Serge Schmemann, "In Soviet, Eager Beaver's Legend Works Overtime," New York Times (31 Aug 1985), p. 2.