Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov

Engineer, Inventor

1904 – 1979

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Who was Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov?

Alexandr Aleksandrovich Morozov was a Soviet engineer and tank designer. He was in charge of the Soviet tank design bureau for thirty-six of the most critical years in Soviet tank development. Among Morozov's achievements were leading the design team for the T-54/55 tank series, the tank with the largest production in history, and designing the drive train and later overall refinements for the T-34 tank series, the tank with the second largest production in history.

A graduate from the Moscow Mechanical Institute, in 1928 Morozov started work at a new design bureau headed by I. Aleksiyenko, at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Here he contributed to the lacklustre T-12 and T-24 tanks, and the highly successful BT fast tanks. Under Mikhail Koshkin he was responsible for the drive-train design of the famous T-34 medium tank in 1937–40, and led the design bureau from Koshkin's death in 1940.

As chief designer of the bureau, Morozov presided over its temporary relocation to Nizhniy Tagil during the war years of 1941–44, and his bureau redesigned components of the T-34 to make production as efficient as possible.

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Born
Oct 29, 1904
Russia
Also known as
  • Морозов, Александр Александрович
Nationality
  • Soviet Union
Profession
Employment
  • Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau
Lived in
  • Kharkiv
Died
1979

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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