Draft:Alexey Dobryden

Alexey Afanasyevich Dobryden (20 May 1926 - 9 October 54) was a Soviet metallurgist and party leader.

Biography
Dobryden was raised in Ol'khovatka, Voronezh Oblast by his parents, Afanasy Andreevich Dobryden and Pelageya Korneevna Dobryden née Poltavtseva.

He was called into service for the Soviet Army on 9 December 1943 when he was 17 years old, from December 1945 he served as corporal in the 10th brigade of the NKVD troops.

After he got demobilised from the army on 25 July 1951, he graduated from the working youth school No. 1 at the Sverdlovsk station. He then married Inna Mikhailovna Peshkova (27 August 1928 - 12 April 2015) on 7 November 1954 in Yekaterinburg. They had two children together, Elena Alekseevna Stepanova (1956 - ) and Mikhail Alekseevich Dobryden (1963 - ).

He later studied at the metallurgical faculty of the Ural State Technical University, from which he graduated in 1956 and received a diploma as a metallurgical engineer with a specialty in Foundry.

He passed away on 9 October 1980 in Yekaterinburg. He was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye Cemetery.