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Mark ShorDirector of Plant No. 37 named after S. Ordzhonikidze in Moscow
Date of Birth: 01.01.1910
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Content:
- Mark Shor: A Life in Industry and Government
- Factory Director and Wartime Service
- Post-War Career and Soviet Bureaucracy
- Later Years and Family
- Legacy and Connections
Mark Shor: A Life in Industry and Government
Early Life and EducationMark Izrailevich Shor was born in 1910 in Berdichev, Ukraine, into a Jewish family. He later moved to Moscow and graduated from the Stalin Armored Tank Academy.
Factory Director and Wartime Service
Shor worked his way up from apprentice to director at Plant No. 37 named after S. Ordzhonikidze in Moscow. From 1937 to 1941, he served as its director, overseeing production during the early stages of World War II. From 1941 to 1942, he directed the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant.
Post-War Career and Soviet Bureaucracy
After the war, Shor became head of the Main Administration for the Production of Automotive and Tractor Parts at the People's Commissariat of Medium Machine Building. He received the Order of Lenin for his achievements in 1944. However, during the anti-Semitic purges of the late 1940s and early 1950s, he was demoted to director of a small agricultural equipment factory in Mytishchi.
Later Years and Family
In the twilight of his career, Shor served as deputy chairman of the State Committee of the USSR on Labor and Wages under Alexander Volkov. He passed away and was buried in the Shor family plot at the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
Shor's wife was Maria Ilyinichna Shor, a journalist. They had three children: two daughters and a son, Boris Markovich Shor. Boris married Elena Alexandrovna Lurye in 1955, and they had two daughters: Maria and Elena. Shor's grandchildren include Maria Borisovna Uvarova and Elena Borisovna Loven.
Legacy and Connections
Mark Shor's cousin, Yakov Borisovich Shor (1909-1974), was a renowned mathematician and State Prize laureate. Shor's family played a significant role in the development of Soviet industry and academia.
