A geometry box is a set with drawing tools that both ordinary school students and design engineers of enterprises had in Soviet times. Children mainly used compasses, in geometry and drawing lessons, professionals worked with a large number of tools to create the most accurate and detailed drawings.
The ‘U — 32L’ geometry box, presented in the museum collection, belonged to Innokenty Bakhtin, a shipbuilder and a Lenin Prize winner. He is one of the main donors of the Severodvinsk Museum of Local Lore.
In 1936, Innokenty Stepanovich graduated from the shipbuilding technical school in Vladivostok, but his whole life there after was associated with the Severodvinsk plant. For the construction of large sea hunters during the war years, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the post-war years, Innokenty Bakhtin who built Project 30bis destroyers, was the responsible deliverer of the first Soviet missile submarine — a Project B611 diesel boat. For this work he was awarded the Lenin Prize.
Innokenty Bakhtin served as the head of one of the workshops, but he did not have a higher education. This situation was typical at that time: many heads of workshops and departments did not have the opportunity to graduate from universities. In order to raise the level of managers and begin to educate their specialists, in 1959, on the initiative of the director of the plant, Yevgeny Egorov, a branch of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute was organized in the city. In 1961, 45-year-old Innokenty Bakhtin was enrolled in the preparatory course along with other managers of the plant. The geometry box was presented to the newly-minted student by his uncle — Muscovite Mikhail Zyabrov. In Severodvinsk, such sets were a scarce commodity.
The study lasted six years. All students of the unusual course had vast industrial experience, they were often older than their teachers. But despite their age and regalia, no one gave concessions to students: they listened to lectures, participated in colloquia, wrote term papers and theses. The most difficult subject for Innokenty Bakhtin was drawing — only because of it he did not receive a diploma with honors.
The ‘U — 32L’ geometry box, presented in the museum collection, belonged to Innokenty Bakhtin, a shipbuilder and a Lenin Prize winner. He is one of the main donors of the Severodvinsk Museum of Local Lore.
In 1936, Innokenty Stepanovich graduated from the shipbuilding technical school in Vladivostok, but his whole life there after was associated with the Severodvinsk plant. For the construction of large sea hunters during the war years, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the post-war years, Innokenty Bakhtin who built Project 30bis destroyers, was the responsible deliverer of the first Soviet missile submarine — a Project B611 diesel boat. For this work he was awarded the Lenin Prize.
Innokenty Bakhtin served as the head of one of the workshops, but he did not have a higher education. This situation was typical at that time: many heads of workshops and departments did not have the opportunity to graduate from universities. In order to raise the level of managers and begin to educate their specialists, in 1959, on the initiative of the director of the plant, Yevgeny Egorov, a branch of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute was organized in the city. In 1961, 45-year-old Innokenty Bakhtin was enrolled in the preparatory course along with other managers of the plant. The geometry box was presented to the newly-minted student by his uncle — Muscovite Mikhail Zyabrov. In Severodvinsk, such sets were a scarce commodity.
The study lasted six years. All students of the unusual course had vast industrial experience, they were often older than their teachers. But despite their age and regalia, no one gave concessions to students: they listened to lectures, participated in colloquia, wrote term papers and theses. The most difficult subject for Innokenty Bakhtin was drawing — only because of it he did not receive a diploma with honors.
