Matvei Kapelyushnikov

Who is Matvei Kapelyushnikov?

Matvei Alkunovich Kapelyushnikov was a Russian/Soviet mechanical engineer, inventor, and Hero of Socialist Labor.

Matvei Kapelyushnikov was born in a village of Abbas-Tumani in Akhaltsikhe uyezd in Tiflis guberniya. He began his career in the oil industry as a technical designer at an oil company called Baku Society of the Russian Oil in 1914. In 1915-1918, Matvei Kapelyushnikov was employed as a drilling rig designer and mechanical engineer at the Bykhovsky Refinery and then at a factory belonging to the Caspian Partnership oil company. In 1920-1924, he worked in the Azneft refineries administration in Baku. In 1920-1924, Matvei Kapelyushnikov was employed as a deputy head of the Azneft Technical Bureau. In 1933-1936, he held the director's post at the Azerbaijan Research Institute named after Valerian Kuybyshev. In 1937-1959, Kapelyushnikov headed the petroleum reservoir physics lab at the Oil Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He had been a drilling department professor at the Moscow Oil Institute named after Ivan Gubkin since 1945.