100 years since the birth of Makar Mazai

Today, April 13, 2010, the Ilyichvites officially celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the legendary steatar Makar Mazai. This name has long become one of the symbols not only of our plant, but of all Mariupol. And it is doubly symbolic that we celebrate the anniversary of the hero, not conquered by enemies, in the year of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Today a whole range of events is planned. This is a rally at the monument to Makaru Mazaru, and the anniversary melting on the sixth furnace of the Marten shop, and a solemn meeting in the Karl Marx Culture Palace.

The 100th anniversary of Makar Mazai will be dedicated to class hours in schools and exhibitions in city libraries.

Mazai Makar Nikitovich was born 04/13/1910 in the village of olginskaya in the Krasnodar Territory in a peasant family. Father is a participant in the civil war. Makar from the age of 8 worked as a laborer at the Chernyshev kulak. For a piece of bread, grazing cows, cleaned horses, mowed hay. He ran away from the owner for the best earnings in Rostov, Taganrog, Nakhichevan. With four fellow villagers in 1930 he leaned behind the best life in Mariupol at the Metallurgical Plant. His friends were scared of fire -breathing stoves and returned back to the village. Makar remained. The plant was founded in 1897. It produced (at that time) oil pipeline and drill pipes, varietal and leaflets, and foundry cast iron. Since 1924, the plant began to bear the name of Ilyich.

Makar began to work as the third henchman of the steature in the Martenovsky workshop, and in the evenings studied in likbez. Experienced steelmark Maxim Vasilievich Makhortov became his teacher. In 1933, Mazai graduated from Stalevov courses at the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute. Soon he achieved outstanding indicators of the effectiveness of the Marten’s units. Stakhanov’s record touched on him a desire to improve his skill. At the First All -Union Meeting of the Workers and Workers of the Stakhanovites, which took place in Moscow in November 1935. Stalears of the factories of Taganrog, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye -Kamensky performed. They took increased obligations in the smelting of steel. Mariupoltsev was not there, they only tried on a high-speed shop and its pioneer became the 26-year-old Cossack-old Cossack Makar Mazai.

In his book “Notes of the Stelewar” (1940), Makar wrote: “.. on the plant I learned to work, more and more clearly began to understand the goals in life, began to study, fell in love with my plant, my workshop, my profession. It is not surprising that the Stakhanov movement captured me and carried me away ... "

Shashkin, Puzyrev, Nesmachny were considered advanced workers at the factory. Giving for a shift of 8 - 7 t steel with 1 m2 of the stove. And suddenly a young Mazai with his four henchmen received from 1 m2 of a stove of 12, 7 tons, the old workers could not believe it. They asked the director of the plant to make the next melting Makar in their presence. Stelevara Shashkin, Puzyrev, Fadeev, the Selyutin brothers, and steel-waist-veteran of Mahortov gathered. On repaired