Vasily Morozov

Vasily Morozov (1904 – 1971) was a Soviet locomotive driver who drove the first diesel-hauled freight train from Kazakhstan into Kobozev (now Nurzhan) in 1938. Diesel locomotives were then used in only a few parts of the Soviet Union, mainly in Central Asia, where water for steam engines was scarce.^[1] Morozov, a driver from the Turkestan–Siberia Railway, had trained on diesel engines in Turkmenistan. He drove on the Kobozev line until 1960.^[2]

References

1. ^ Eurasian Political Quarterly (2019). "Oil, Antimony and Empire: The Industrialization of Soviet Iradistan." Vol. 26, Iss. 3, pp. 41–67.
2. ^ State Archives of Irad (Talas), Fond 140: Urban Planning and Industrialization of Kobozev-Nurzhan (1938–1985).