Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin ( Russian: Михаи́л Ильи́ч Ко́шкин; 3 December 1898, Brynchagi,

Yaroslavl Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast (russian: Яросла́вская о́бласть, ''Yaroslavskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma ...

– 26 September 1940) 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, ...

tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...

designer, chief designer of the famous

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 ...

medium tank. The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II. He started out in life as a confectioner, but then studied engineering.Panther Vs T-34: Ukraine 1943 By Robert Forczyk, Osprey Publishing, 2007, ,
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Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

assigned him to lead design bureau KB-190 to design a replacement for the BT tanks at the

Kharkiv Komintern Locomotive Plant The Malyshev Factory ( uk , Завод імені В.О. Малишева, translit=Zavod imeni V.O. Malysheva; abbreviated ), formerly the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (, ), is a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It ...

(KhPZ) in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.State Stalin Prize in 1942 and the

Order of the Red Star The Order of the Red Star (russian: Орден Красной Звезды, Orden Krasnoy Zvezdy) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 193 ...

. In 1990, shortly before the final collapse of the USSR, he was posthumously decorated with the highest civilian honor,

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koshkin, Mikhail 1898 births 1940 deaths People from Yaroslavl Oblast people from Uglichsky Uyezd Soviet military engineers Soviet inventors Tank designers Weapon designers Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet military personnel of the Polish–Soviet War Stalin Prize winners Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Deaths from pneumonia in the Soviet Union

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