Lev Izrailevich Gorlitsky (russian: Лев Израилевич Горлицкий) (3 March 1906 - 2 November 2003) was a Jewish

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, ...

weapons designer. Under the guidance of Gorlitsky special artillery pieces were designed to be mounted on

T-34 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940. When introduced its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was less powerful than its contemporaries while its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against Anti-tank warfare, anti-tan ...

self-propelled gun Self-propelled artillery (also called locomotive artillery) is artillery equipped with its own propulsion system to move toward its firing position. Within the terminology are the self-propelled gun, self-propelled howitzer, self-propelled mo ...

s.Soviet military review 1975- Page 30 "Good results were achieved by the Soviet designers and tank builders in creating self-propelled guns. Under the guidance of L. Gorlitsky special artillery pieces were designed to be mounted on the T-34 body. This work resulted in the creation "

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