Half a century with Mosmetrostroy

Mosmetrostroy veteran, chairman of the Council of War and Labor Veterans, one of the Komsomol leaders of Mosmetrostroy in the 1970s, Boris Prigoda, turned 70 on July 20. We remember the bright moments of his work biography.

Boris Filippovich Prigoda was born and raised in Kuban in a strong, hardworking family. Father is a veterinarian, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, mother is a collective farm worker. Together with his younger sister, he was brought up surrounded by a generation of participants in the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars. Boris was named in memory of his uncle, who did not return from the front.

After school, he became a driver-car mechanic. From 1969 to 1971 he served in the Soviet Army at the sergeant school of the motor battalion in the city of Grozny. After service, he worked in elected Komsomol work in his small homeland.

My acquaintance with the Moscow Metro Construction happened in 1973, when I came to work on the All-Union Shock Construction Project on a Komsomol ticket. After studying at the Metrostroy technical school, he was accepted as a tunneler at SMU-11 for the construction of the Tushinskaya and Pushkinskaya stations. He has proven himself to be an active and responsible worker with leadership qualities.

In 1974, Boris Filippovich was elected to the Komsomol committee of Mosmetrostroy, and soon became deputy secretary of the committee. He was responsible for departmental dormitories, which housed more than 5,000 people. Participated in organizing the first exhibitions of the Metrostroy Museum in the Palace of Culture on Kostomarovsky Lane. History education helped. At that time, Boris Prigoda graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in the direction of Mosmetrostroy.

In 1979, on the recommendation of the deputy head of Mosmetrostroy, Hero of Socialist Labor Tatyana Fedorova, he was sent to administrative work as the head of the dormitory department at KSUM. Metrostroyevsky dormitories were among the best in Moscow and in the USSR Ministry of Transport Construction in terms of living conditions and the level of cultural and sports work carried out.

From 1981 to 1991, he was engaged in elected trade union and party work in SMU-15 of Mosmetrostroy. From 1999 to 2008, he was appointed deputy director of KSUM, overseeing the real estate department, contract department, and personnel department. Part-time for five years and then from 2008 to 2015, he headed the team of the Metrostroy Palace of Culture.

Creative groups under Boris Prigoda became laureates of many festivals, performed on the most prestigious stages of the country and the city of Moscow (Red Square, Poklonnaya Gora, State Kremlin Palace), in a health camp and in Mosmetrostroy hostels, and successfully toured abroad. For many years, the New Year's holidays for Metrostroy children held at the Palace of Culture were recognized by the Moscow government as one of the best in the city.

With many years of work for the benefit of our team, Boris Prigoda made a great contribution to its heroic history. And now - in the year of the 90th anniversary of the four-time awarded Mosmetrostroy - it energetically and with soul continues to carry out the vigil of memory and unite veterans, bringing a lot of personal and good things to the work.

Together with his wife Olga Filippovna, he raised two daughters and a son. Their friendly family already has two granddaughters and a grandson who continues the family line. We congratulate Boris Filippovich on his wonderful anniversary and wish him health and long life!