Alexey Dobryden
{{short description|Soviet metallurgist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Alexey Afanasyevich Dobryden
| image =
| birth_date = 20 May 1926
| birth_place = Ol'khovatka, Voronezh Oblast, Russia
| death_date = 9 October 1980 (aged 54)
| death_place = Yekaterinburg, Russia
| alma_mater = Ural State Technical University (Ph.D. 1956)
| awards = {{Order_of_the_Red_Banner_of_Labour}}{{Order_of_the_Badge_of_Honour}}{{Order_of_the_Badge_of_Honour}}{{Medal_"For_the_Victory_over_Germany_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941–1945"}}{{Jubilee_Medal_"In_Commemoration_of_the_100th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_Vladimir_Ilyich_Lenin"}}
| spouse = {{marriage |Inna Mikhailovna Peshkova|1954-11-7}}
| children = Elena A. Stepanova, Mikhail A. Dobryden
}}
Alexey Afanasyevich Dobryden (Russian: Алексей Афанасьевич Добрыдень; 20 May 1926 - 9 October 1980) was a Soviet metallurgist and party leader.
Biography
Dobryden was born and raised in Ol'khovatka, Olkhovatsky District, Voronezh Oblast by his parents, Afanasy Andreevich Dobryden and Pelageya Korneevna Dobryden née Poltavtseva.{{cite web |last1=Komarsky |first1=V. Ya. |date=2005 |title=Geologists of the Urals |url=http://geologi-urala.meller.su/Nekropol_2005/shrk_1-4-5.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=Geologi Urala |language=Russian}}
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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation |url=https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero92111547/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fadv_search%3Dy%26last_name%3D%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%26first_name%3D%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%26middle_name%3D%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%26date_birth_from%3D%26static_hash%3D8ba90582e3b23394100731a79ba3ebd9b3573f3600cdbc1aa8742bd494516397v1%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Akld_partizan%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%3Asame_rvk%3Asame_guk%3Apotery_knigi_pamyati%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1& |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=Paymat Naroda |language=Russian}}
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 - ).{{Cite journal |last=Rusian |first=Yulia A. |date=9 July 2018 |title=Traces of The "New Direction" in The Soviet Historical Studies of The Pages of Samizdat |url=https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/3426/2818 |journal=To the 80th Anniversary of the Faculty of History of the Ural University |language=Russian}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Vyaznikova |first1=Valentina A. |date=12 November 2012 |title=Information about the Sverdlovsk region and the Urals |url=http://semantic.uraic.ru/post/postbrowse.aspx?postid=9175&f=p&q=false&q2=false&index=true&plus=true&project=1 |url-status=dead |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=Semantic |publisher= |language=Russian}}
He passed away on 9 October 1980 in Yekaterinburg. He was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye Cemetery.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Memorial of Alexey Dobryden |url=http://skorbim.com/%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB/%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87.html |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=Skorbim |language=Russian}}