KOSTENKO 180 



Residence: Leninskii Prospekt, 13 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: V2 42 55 



KOSTENKO, MIKHAIL POLIEVKTOVICH (Electrical Engineer) 



M. P. Kostenko was born December 16, 1889. Before gradu- 

 ating in 1918 from the Electrical Engineering Institute of the 

 Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Kostenko had been banished 

 for a period to a remote corner of the Urals by the Tsarist 

 Government for having participated in student revolutionary 

 demonstrations. After graduating with distinction, he remained 

 at the Institute to prepare for teaching activities. In 1930, he 

 was appointed to the Chair of Electrical Machines in the M. I. 

 Kalinin Polytechnic Institute. More than 400 electrical engi- 

 neers (specialists in constructing electrical machines) have 

 graduated from there under his direction. Kostenko was Chief 

 Electrician of the Kharkov Electromechanical Plant, and, in 

 1942-44, professor in the Central Asiatic Industrial Institute 

 (Tashkent). He is Director of the Institute of Electromechanics 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He has consulted and 

 taught in Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland. He was a 

 delegate to the Paris Conference on Large-Scale Electrical 

 High-Tension Systems. In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1953 an 

 Academician. He is an Honored Scientist of the Uzbek S.S.R. 

 He was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., fifth 

 convocation. In 1949 and 1951, Kostenko was awarded Stalin 

 Prizes and in 1958 a Lenin Prize. 



Under the Lenin Plan, GOELRO (State Plan for Electrifi- 

 cation of Soviet Russia), Kostenko was one of the originators 

 (and is chief) of the office for new designs at the "Electrosila" 

 Plant, where he worked from 1929-30, and where he has been 

 consultant since 1932. In this connection, the office designed 

 four of the eight generators for the then new Volkhov hydro- 

 electric power plant. Their success assured the beginning of 

 Soviet manufacture of heavy power machinery construction. 

 Similarly, Kostenko has participated in the development of all 

 the basic electrical machines produced in Russia: generators 

 for plants such as the Dneprovskaya, Ribinskaya, Uglichskaya, 

 and the Volga Cascade. He was consulted in the manufacture of 

 motors for the atomic ice-breaker "Lenin," and for generators 

 of the Kuibishev and Stalingrad power stations. He is a member 

 of the technical council of Electrosila. 



