Vasiliy Gavrilovich Grabin (russian: Василий Гаврилович Грабин; – 18 April 1980) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

artillery designer. He led a design bureau (TsAKB) at

Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92 Open joint-stock company (JSC) NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant (russian: Нижегородский машиностроительный завод, links=no) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the Sormovo distr ...

in Gorky (

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

). Grabin was chief designer of

ZiS-3 The 76-mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) (russian: 76-мм дивизионная пушка обр. 1942 г. (ЗиС-3)) (GRAU index: 52-P-354U) was a Soviet 76.2 mm divisional field gun used during World War II. ''ZiS'' was a factory design ...

, the divisional field gun, which was the most numerous cannon of World War II (over 103,000 cannons were built). Grabin was the first who used

ergonomics Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as human factors) is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Four primary goals of human factors learnin ...

in cannon construction (before the word ergonomics appears). In the 1930s he used physiologist consultation to optimize the design of cannons.

Широкорад А.Б., ''Гений советской артиллерии: Триумф и трагедия В. Грабина'', ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2003, 429 pp., . 1900 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Russian engineers People from Krasnoarmeysky District, Krasnodar Krai People from Kuban Oblast Bauman Moscow State Technical University faculty Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Heroes of Socialist Labour Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Russian engineers Russian inventors Soviet colonel generals Soviet engineers {{russia-mil-bio-stub Soviet inventors Weapon designers Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

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