Alexey Dmitrievich Charomsky ( 1899 - 1982 ) - Soviet designer of aircraft and tank diesel engines , major general of the aviation engineering service (1944).
| Alexey Dmitrievich Charomsky | |||||||
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| Date of Birth | 3 (15) February 1899 | ||||||
| Date of death | 1982 | ||||||
| A country |  the USSR | ||||||
| Scientific field | aircraft engine designer | ||||||
| Alma mater | VVIA named after N. Ye. Zhukovsky | ||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Technical Sciences | ||||||
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Biography
Member of the October Revolution and the Civil War . He graduated from the VVIA named after N. E. Zhukovsky in 1928 . From 1928, he worked at the Scientific Automotive Institute , and then at CIAM he was engaged in the design and creation of diesel engines .
He was convicted and was imprisoned in 1938-1942 , working in the motor group of the special technical bureau of the NKVD. In 1942 - 1960 he was the chief designer at various factories.
Charomsky design diesel engines ( M-40 , ACh-30 B and ACh-40 ) were used in aviation (including on long-range bombers) and in tanks.
He died in 1982 . He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery .
Indications given under investigation.
In accordance with recently discovered materials from the archives of the KGB of the USSR (there are copies of the original documents), it turned out that A. D. Charomsky testified in 1937, on the basis of which, among other leaders of the aviation industry, the leaders of Aviation Plant No. 24 named after him. Frunze: Israel Emmanuilovich Maryamov (director), Mikhail Alexandrovich Kolosov (technical director) and Georgy Petrovich Sudakov-Bilimenko - shot (head of production).
The certificate dated August 31, 1937 (archive number 960138/0), signed by the interim chief of the third department of the Main Directorate of the State Security Committee of the NKVD of the USSR - State Security Commissar 3rd Rank Minaev , cites the following testimony of Charomsky:
"At Plant No. 24, participants in the counter-revolutionary organization KOLOSOVYM, MARYAMOV, SUDAKOV and others, for the purpose of sabotage, the formation and fine-tuning of the M-34 engine was disrupted, making the use of this engine for modern combat aviation under threat of liquidation" August 25, 1937)
G.P. Sudakov-Bilimenko was shot on December 15, 1937 .
Awards and prizes
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943) - for the creation of a new model of aircraft engine
- 2 orders of Lenin (09/16/1945; 13/06/1952)
- 2 orders of the Red Banner (04/30/1945; 10/28/1967)
- Order of Suvorov, 2nd class (08/19/1944)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (04/26/1971)
- medals