AVRAS, Leonid Fyodorovich

AVRAS, Leonid Fyodorovich (17.1.1907, Kiev – 2.7.1986, Ufa), Industrialist. Hero of Socialist Labour (1971). Merited Master of Sciences and Technology of the BASSR (1958). Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1957, 1966, 1971), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1962), Order of the Red Star (1943, 1945). Graduated from the Kharkov Aviation Institute (1935). Since 1941, he worked at the UMEP. Since 1958, he worked as the Deputy Representative of Bashkir Council  of  National  Economy,  between 1963–74 – as Dir. of the Ufa Plant of Communication Equipment. While A. was in the position, the UMEP mastered the serial production of new aircraft engines; new technological  processes  were  introduced, reducing the consumption of metal and labour intensity in the mechanical processing of parts.