Background
Semen Svirskii was born July 28, 1925 in the city of Krasnoyarsk.
Semen Svirskii was born July 28, 1925 in the city of Krasnoyarsk.
Semen Svirskii was not yet 18 years old when, in January 1943, he was called up for military service in the Red Army. From the ninth-grader Semen became a student of the 1st Kiev Krasnoznamenny Artillery School named after S.M. Kirov, which was then in the evacuation near Krasnoyarsk. After studying in the school for slightly more than six months, he got to the front line. Since 1944, Semen fought as a platoon commander in the 672nd Artillery Regiment of the 18th Mginsky (later also the Gdynia) Division on the Karelian Front, and after the reorganization from September 1944 - on the 2nd Belorussian Front. Semen Svirskii participated in the battles in Karelia, Finland, Poland, Germany. He met the Victory on the island of Bornholm in Denmark.
Military service lasted until 1947. After demobilization, Semen Svirskii returned to Krasnoyarsk and in the same year entered the Construction Institute of the Moscow City Executive Committee, from which he graduated in 1952 with a degree in Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal System.
For almost half a century Semen Isaevich worked in the construction organizations of Moscow. Svirskii passed all the steps: he was the head foreman of the SMU-1 of the trust "Mosvodokanalstroi" ("Mospodzemstroi" No. 5, 1952-1955), Senior Engineer of the Construction Department in Luzhniki (1955-1957), the chief technologist of the trust "Mospodzemstroi" No. 1 (1957-1959), the chief engineer of SU-6, the head of SU-7 of the trust "Mospodzemstroi" No.1 (1959-1973). For ten years he had been the head of the trust “Mosteplosetstroi” of the Glavmosinzhstroi Company (1973-1983).
Since February 1983 Semen Isaevich worked as deputy and then first deputy chief of Glavmosinzhstroi at the Moscow City Executive Committee, which in April 1988 was transformed into the Design and Construction Association "Mosinzhstroi". In April 1993 he was elected chairman of the board and general director of the Association "Mosinzhstroi".