User:Shuriker/Schnee Yakiv Isydorovych

Yakiv Isydorovych Schnee (1902 - 1977) - Soviet sciencist, doctor of engineering (1947) and professor.

Biograthy
In 1925 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. In 1927 he was seconded to the Leningrad Turbine Plant for design work. In 1929 he studied the experience of turbine building in Germany, in 1934 he studied in Great Britain.

Since 1930, he worked at the Kharkiv Turbine Plant as a deputy chief; since 1932, he was the chief designer of the turbine engineering factory bureau, and the steam turbine department.

During the WW2 war, a special design bureau is created, in the evacuation to Krasnoufimsk headed by Yakov Schnee.

Under his leadership and with direct participation, the USSR’s first steam turbine with a capacity of 50 thousand kilowatts (Makovsky turbine) was manufactured, unit designs were created, in particular a steam turbine with a capacity of 100 thousand kilowatts.

Head of the Department of Turbine Engineering of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute during 1941-1976.

Under his leadership, together with OJSC Turboatom, the last degrees of steam turbines were designed for thermal and nuclear power plants.

Graduated for Labor Red flag order, Lenin order(1953), medals.

As a teacher, he prepared 35 candidates of technical sciences, of which 7 subsequently defended doctoral dissertations, among them - Vitaliy Malyarenko.

He initiated the construction of a new building of the Department of Turbine Engineering, a problematic research laboratory and a branch research laboratory in the scientific areas “Gas Dynamics of the Flowing Part”, “Heat Transfer in Steam and Gas Turbines” and “Optimization of Cycles of Gas Turbine Installations” are being created at the department.

On his initiative, a specialized scientific council was created at KhPI for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in turbine engineering, steam generator engineering, and hydraulic engineering.

He was a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Heavy, Energy and Transport Engineering of the USSR, and also deputy chairman of the gas turbine commission at the USSR Academy of Sciences.

He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, 7 monographs, 5 of them on gas turbines.

His works:


 * two-volume "Gas Turbines", written with graduates from the Department of Turbine Engineering
 * monograph “Thermal calculations of steam turbines with shift operation”.

In December 2013, a memorial plaque to Yakiv Schnee was opened near the turbine building.