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Respect and honor! The staff of the locomotive depot St. Petersburg Passenger Moscow perpetuated the name of the honorary railway worker - Andreev Vladimir Mikhailovich, formerly the head of this depot in the electric locomotive ChS6-025. In 1959, Vladimir moved to Leningrad. He worked at the post office and studied at school, after which his childhood dream came true: he entered the secondary city vocational school No. 34 named after A. Sukhanov. After his successful graduation, 18-year-old Vladimir joined the personnel department of the Leningrad-passenger–Moskovsky locomotive depot in July 1968 to get a job as an assistant to an electric locomotive driver. Service in the armed forces forced Vladimir to interrupt his work, but in December 1971 he returned to the depot again. From that time, in fact, his journey as a railroad worker began. At the end of 1972, the first Czechoslovakian electric locomotives ChS2T, numbers 875 and 876, arrived at the depot. And in the period from 1974 to 1976, the depot's assigned fleet was replenished with electric locomotives of this series, which replaced ChS2. New, modern technology, beautiful red and maroon electric locomotives - what else does a young man need to "catch fire", love them forever. From the very beginning of his career, Vladimir had a very strong desire for development, for new knowledge, and already in August 1973, after studying at a dental school and the necessary adjustments, he was appointed an electric locomotive driver. But even by modern standards, not everyone can become a machinist at the age of 23. In 1974, a young machinist of the 3rd class, Vladimir Andreev, was awarded the badge "Winner of the Socialist competition in 1974" for his achievements, and in 1975 - "Drummer of the ninth five-year plan". At the end of 1975, the first high-speed electric locomotives ChS200 from Czechoslovakia and the electric train ER200 built by the Riga Car Building Plant arrived at the depot. 1976 was the year of speed records: On June 8, at the specialized Luban – Chudovo section, the driver G. Shishkov on the ER200 electric train, and on June 26, the driver B. Kalinin on the CHS200 electric locomotive with the Russian Troika train reached a speed of 220 km/h. As eyewitnesses say, even then, in 1977, the 2nd class machinist Vladimir Andreev infected everyone around with his enthusiasm for learning new technology. After the trips, workmates gathered at the points of turnover and studied literature, electrical diagrams of electric locomotives. At that time, the team had a great desire to learn, to master new techniques. 1979 was a special year for Vladimir and for the whole country: then the USSR national ice hockey team became a 16-time world champion. And Vladimir Mikhailovich was already acting as an instructor engineer for locomotive crews. 10 ChS200 electric locomotives and 10 ChS6 electric locomotives arrived at the depot from Czechoslovakia. In 1980, Andreev was appointed train driver-instructor of the column. Now he was responsible not only for himself, but for all the drivers. For his labor achievements, he was awarded the badge "Winner of the Socialist competition in 1980". And in 1981, having passed the tests perfectly, he received the 1st class of driver qualification. In the same year, 20 more ChS6 electric locomotives entered the depot. On March 1, 1984, the ER200 electric train No. 1 was put into regular operation, running between Leningrad and Moscow with a travel time of 4 hours and 31 minutes. From 1983 to 1987, Vladimir Mikhailovich was an instructor engineer for technical training of locomotive crews. It was then that his talent as a teacher and a skilled mentor truly revealed itself. His motto was: "Every driver and assistant driver of an electric locomotive should know electrical engineering." And it was then, in the late 80s, that the idea was born to make an electric locomotive simulator ChS2T - on their own, from improvised means. And the depot enthusiasts, led by Andreev, have created a unique simulator of its kind, which has trained more than one generation of machinists. Since mid-1987, Vladimir Andreev has been acting as deputy head of the depot for operation. And at the age of 37, he decided to go to study in absentia at LIIZHT, which he successfully graduated from. Since November 1988, for eight years, he has been deputy head of the depot for operation. There was constant development and training of personnel, a new approach was developed to drawing up work schedules and vacations of locomotive crews, "garters" of trains. For high performance in his work, Vladimir Mikhailovich was awarded the badge of "Honorary Railway Worker". In August 1996, he was appointed head of the St. Petersburg-Passenger-Moscow locomotive depot. At that time, these were three depots in one: operational, repair and motor car (in April 1997, PM-10 was separated from the PM-8 ). For exactly six years, until August 2002, Vladimir Mikhailovich was at the head of the team, supervised the operation and repair. And here he was on top, however, as always. On the night of January 25-26, 2000, passenger train No. 612 crashed on the Bagbinsky rise of the main passage. That night, Mikhail Tokarev, a 40-year-old assistant driver, died. Andreev spent more than one day at the crash site and, actively participating in the investigation, showed the highest technical knowledge, which made it possible to make it objective. In the summer of 2001, regular operation of the Nevsky Express high-speed train began, serviced by ChS200 electric locomotives and PM-8 locomotive crews. In August 2002, Vladimir Mikhailovich was appointed deputy head of the locomotive service of the Russian Railways, where he worked until April 27, 2005, when he was honorably escorted to a well-deserved rest. But the meaning of his life was in locomotives. And already in the autumn of 2005, he returned to TCH-8 and shared both sorrows and joys with the rejuvenated team for another eight years. During this period, once a single depot was divided into repair and maintenance, new domestic EP2k electric locomotives came from the Kolomna plant. Vladimir Mikhailovich continued his favorite business, taught the residents of Rostov. His CS2t simulator has started working again, on which up to forty malfunctions can be simulated. Andreev compiled a new technical form for troubleshooting electric locomotives, converted all electrical circuits of electric locomotives, including the new one – EP2k, into electronic form, and was engaged in rationalization. On December 1, 2013, he died. He did not have time to share another joy of the team – moving to a new five-story building of the operational locomotive depot St. Petersburg-passenger-Moscow #trainspotting #train #electric #station #ŠKODA #OKT #RZD #CHS6
