"Vasuk Stepan Alekseevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain of the 3rd rank Type of troops: The Soviet Navy and Naval forces border troops of the NKVD. Unfortunately, it is impossible to ask him how it was, what was decided, built, implemented with his participation and under his leadership, how the Okita team moved forward step by step, what Vasyuk liked, and what he irreconcilably fought — he will not tell you about this. Stepan Alekseevich finished his earthly journey, and left everything that he did not have time to finish to his successors and heirs. “Stepan Alekseyevich Vasyuk — He was a peculiar person,” - recalls the engineer of the production Department A. p. Serdyuk. — “I had been at the company since the first days, I started working in may 1968 with Aleshko and Burov. He was the first Secretary of the party organization. Vasyuk came to us from the shipyard. Having got acquainted with the situation and production, he focused on improving its technical level. But production is not only machines, boilers, without people they are just a pile of dead metal. “Production growth,”- said the new Manager, “begins where competent specialists become more productive machines.” This is the course we took: updating equipment and training, retraining personnel. Both are continuous. If something new and interesting was planned and started, the Director stuck to him like a magnet to metal. He was an enthusiastic person. If they are already ""sick"" of an interesting idea, they will not rest until they finish the job. This was the case, for example, with the introduction of vacuum diaeration. We got acquainted with this new product in Zaporozhye, where we were on courses. Vasyuk lit up: “we will do it at home!” He went there again, brought the drawings, and our craftsmen themselves made the first such installation. Put it in the boiler room at St. Krasnostudenchesky and the other on the prospectus of Builders, and then off we go… This is the rule he taught us: if you see something new, understand it properly, evaluate it, and if you are convinced that the game is worth the candle - get down to business and do not back down until you solve it. This passion, this desire to solve everything, is seriously remembered by other specialists who had to work with Vasyuk next to them or watch him at work. The 70s are special for our company because it was during this decade that a sharp turn took place - from many good, but disparate production and technical measures to a holistic technical policy. This was a harbinger of the future — our current, for example, programmatic approach to solving global problems. Earlier it was told about the construction and commissioning of the first stage of the boiler house in the Shumen microdistrict, about its significance for the further development of technical progress. “I remember how it was built” — says the Deputy Director M. G. Rassolov. – “As a mother does not leave her child, so Stepan Alekseyevich came here several times a day, and sometimes even at night, delved into all the questions, held planning meetings here himself, was seething, raging, happy, indignant”. The energy was pouring out of him and infecting all of us. The boiler room was his brainchild, and now we can say a monument to him. Mikhail Gavrilovich also recalls how Vasyuk tirelessly searched for good employees, specialists, invited them, lured them from everywhere. A former shipbuilder himself, he lured a whole group of experienced craftsmen, operators, and welders from the factory. One of them was master A. N. Ptitsa, and through it, with its help, dragged Vasyuk from the shipbuilding plant to his enterprise by the operator of the boiler room and M. G. Rassolov. Ptitsa later became the first head of the new operational area, and a few years later he was replaced by Mikhail Rassolov. — “We liked the Director's commitment,” - continues memories Mikhail Gavrilovich. – “Said, then did, promised, then fulfilled. With rare exceptions, this rule was not violated by them. When he invited me to work for him, he promised me and Ptitsa to get apartments within a year. And he kept his word. This is remembered by the senior master of TER-1 A. A. Tomilko, and our other employees. Some say that the Director was sometimes cool and hot in his decisions, this gave rise to conflict situations in which he did not always take the right, balanced position, in a hurry did something that, after cooling down, he was in a hurry to fix, make amends. Sometimes, though, it was too late. As, for example, happened with the departure from the enterprise group of good people — instrumentation and automation specialists. Of course, we are all living people, and nothing human is alien to us — neither good impulses, nor delusions. But a person who never makes mistakes is probably a mistake of nature itself. However, this does not give us an indulgence, absolution for mistakes, especially in working with people. The 70s raised our company to a level where it could solve the issues of heat supply to the city more competently and efficiently. But this was to be done by Vasyuk's successors. He laid a good Foundation for this work.” In 1980, Stepan Alekseyevich retired and passed his directorial baton to N. S. Krutko. Having got used to live daily in a whirlpool of various cares, the pensioner Vasyuk worked for several more years in emergency dispatching service, then finally left for a well-deserved rest. This man left a good memory among us._x000D_ _x000D_ "