Konstantin Chelpan

Engineer, Deceased Person

1899 – 1938

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Who was Konstantin Chelpan?

Konstantin Fyodorovich Chelpan was a prominent Ukrainian-Soviet engineer of Greek background. Head of the Engineering Design Bureau of the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory, chief designer of the T-34 tank engine. Awarded the Order of Lenin. Politically repressed and executed under a mass persecution ordered by Joseph Stalin. Politically rehabilitated after death.

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Born
May 27, 1899
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Also known as
  • Chelpan Konstantin Fyodorovich
Nationality
  • Russia
  • Ukraine
Profession
Died
May 10, 1938
Kharkiv

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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