Designer of tanks Koshkin Biography

Yaroslavl - Gg. The biography of Koshkin Mikhail Ilyich - the designer of the tank T - is full of amazing stories, incredible accidents, amazing achievements and genuine heroism. This man with his legendary invention was able to change the course of military history. Tank T is not just a combat vehicle that gave our army an advantage during the Second World War, it is a symbol personifying faith in the victory and heroism of the whole people.

Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin was born on November 21, his family was very poor, his father worked hard in logging. When Mikhail was 7 years old, his father was gone: he broke and died. The widow remained with three young children in her arms. Michael and his brother helped their mother as much as possible, after school, engaged in gating pigs, but this was still few. Having graduated from only 3 classes of the parish school, ten-year-old Mikhail, like another Mikhail-Lomonosov, goes to Moscow in the hope of making money for the family.

In the capital, he had a maternal relatives, he went to them. Mother provided him with a note with the address, but this important piece of paper was lost by Mikhail before he reached his destination. And this happened because on the way he came across a fight: several adult boys beat one younger boy, could not pass by the hero of our article, he stood up for the weak. In the heat of the fight, the treasured note disappeared.

And it is not known how the fate of Mikhail could have developed, if not for a random passerby. It turned out to be a working of the Moscow confectionery factory. He not only went out of our hero, but also helped to get to the factory. Working in a factory, young Mikhail established himself as a capable and conscientious worker. After 8 years, he was already a master of the workshop, and he was not even 19 years old.

At the beginning of the revolutionary year, Mikhail was drafted into the army. He fought on the Western Front, was wounded and sent to Moscow to the hospital, from where he was demobilized. But already in the year he returns to the army voluntarily, entering the ranks of the Red Army railway detachment. He took part in the hostilities near Tsaritsyn. In the year he receives a transfer to the North Front, where he fights in the battles for Arkhangelsk.

On the way to Poland, Mikhail Ilyich fell ill with a typhoid. After recovery, he returns to the ranks of the army, this time he is fighting on the Southern Front. When the civil war ended, it was aimed at studying at the Communist University. At the end of the university, he was sent to the confectionery factory in Vyatka in the year. Here, as the director, he proved himself as a competent, sensitive and responsible leader.

The family with his future wife Mikhail Koshkin met while working in Vyatka. Vera Nikolaevna Kataeva was an employee of the Gubpotrebsoyuz. Here, in Vyatka, the eldest daughter of Elizabeth is born. The family of Mikhail Koshkin lived on the territory of the Trifon Monastery. Lisa will later tell many curious details about this time. For example, how his father was engaged in organizing the CHICBIZA courses, where he studied and taught others.

Or about how he issued a salary to his employees: on the day of payments, Mikhail Ilyich invited his employees to his office and children, the children received sweets, and their wives were given a salary. This was done so that the employees did not have the opportunity to drink the money necessary for the family. The eldest became a teacher of geography, Tamara chose the profession of a geologist, and Tatyana taught at Kharkov University.

The design career in the year, at the personal request of S. Kirov, Mikhail Ilyich was sent to the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, where he studied at the department "Cars and Tractors". Having successfully graduated from the institution in the year, Koshkin goes to work at the tank design bureau of the Leningrad plant named after Here the history of the legendary invention of the Soviet design engineer originates.

At this factory, under the leadership of Koshkin, tanks T and t the first achievement of our hero were the modernization of the BT-7 tank, which consisted in installing the engine in this way the world's first diesel tank appeared. Despite the skepticism of many authoritative colleagues, Koshkin was able to prove the advantage of the caterpillar move above the wheel and mixed. The new caterpillar tank was called and it showed excellent maneuverability in battle in the conditions of crossed terrain.

The birth of a legend is the use of a diesel engine, as well as a five -legged caterpillar course, opened up new opportunities in the improvement of tanks. To prove this, at the end of the year, Koshkin builds two prototypes of the tank, which was assigned an index and, in comparison with previous models, this tank had several serious advantages, including a significant raising of military mass by 10 tons and a double increase in the thickness of the armor.

And he became a prototype for T while working on the “thirty -four” drawings Mikhail Ilyich surrendered to this process entirely, practically settling at the factory. In relation to work, he was always very demanding of himself and others, assertive, purposeful and fundamental.It was this ability to work to complete self -forgetfulness that made it a higher class specialist.

Mikhail Koshkin created the first prototypes of tank T in the spring of the year. Two copies were released by March. Despite the fact that the tanks were already on the move, their common mileage has not yet allowed to move on to public tests. On the speedometer of each tank, according to the standards, there should have been indicators above km. Meanwhile, on March 17, the Kremlin was supposed to take place of new equipment.

The entire biography of the designer of the tank and Koshkin indicates that this person was not afraid to make complex decisions and never fled from responsibility. The current acute situation with a public demonstration for the highest echelons of power was no exception. Mikhail Ilyich found the only possible, but extremely risky, exit - he decides to overtake tanks to Moscow with his own.

This simultaneously allowed both field tests and gain the necessary mileage. The situation was also complicated by the fact that at that time T was classified, it was impossible to openly demonstrate it, which means that the route was built bypassing roads and settlements in order to prevent the disclosure of GOSTINA. In addition, snow was still lying. And in Moscow, at the appointed hour, Stalin was waiting.

The conditions are truly extreme. Now, probably, it is difficult to imagine what a monstrous responsibility lay on Koshkin, not only as a constructor, but also as a person who made a decision to run. Without exaggeration, he risked not only freedom, but, possibly, life.

If something went wrong, he would have to answer before Stalin. On the night of March 6, a column with two camouflaged tanks set off. For the levers of tanks, T Mikhail Koshkin on the way often sat down himself. All the disadvantages of the design that were manifested in multiple small breakdowns were eliminated in the field. After almost a week, March 12, the tanks were in Moscow, and Go took place a triumphal demonstration in the Kremlin.

Joseph Vissarionovich was satisfied. Death unfortunately, the nightmarish conditions of the tanks of tanks from Kharkov to the capital did not pass for Mikhail Ilyich without a trace. Koshkin caught a cold. The situation was aggravated during the reverse stroke, when one of the tanks fell into the water and he participated in the extraction of the car. The disease worsened, moving into pneumonia, which caused the death of Mikhail Koshkin.

He did not stop working, despite the acute course of illness and hospitalization. Soon I had to remove the lung, which ceased to function, but this could no longer save the life of Mikhail Ilyich. Koshkin died on September 26 in the sanatorium near Kharkov. He was buried in the Kharkov first city cemetery. The awards Mikhail Koshkin were awarded the Order of Lenin. For the tank T, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

He was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize for T in the city of memory in Kharkov in the city of also one of the streets of the city bears his name. The designer is a monument in the Yaroslavl region, in the center of the village of Brynchaga, where he was born. Mikhail Ilyich lived and worked in this house. And there is a monument to the legendary tank T, it is located on a federal highway M-8, not far from the turning indicator to the village of Brynchagi.

In the city of Pereslavl Zalessky, one of the streets bears the name of the great designer. In addition to architectural structures, the achievements of the designer M. Koshkin are captured on the pages of books - this is the “Creation of Armor” by J. Reznik, released to the anniversary of our hero of the brochure “Mikhail Koshkin: unique documents, facts, memories”, “tank that overtook time” and “designers” and “designers” of the authorship of V.

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