Alexander Evgenievich Hvorostin ( February 23, 1910 - August 15, 1986 ) - Soviet designer of artillery weapons.
| Alexander Evgenievich Hvorostin | |
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| Date of Birth | February 23, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Krasny, Smolensk region |
| Date of death | August 15, 1986 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| A country | the USSR |
| Scientific field | mechanics of artillery weapons |
| Academic degree | Professor |
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Biography
Born February 23, 1910 in the city of Krasny, Smolensk region. He graduated from the Military Academy in Leningrad, the designer of artillery systems. He was distributed to Moscow, to the position of chief designer. During the Great Patriotic War he took part in the development of many projects of artillery systems. The most famous of them, the ZIS-3 divisional gun, of which more than 30,000 guns were produced.
Until 1944 he worked at the Central Design Bureau. One of the designers (main linker) of the ZIS-3 divisional gun, a leading designer of the 100-mm BS-3 field gun. The designer of the division gun ZIS-S-58, a prototype of which was made according to his design. Since 1944 he worked at the Industrial Academy. In 1950, he was sent as a military adviser to China. He supervised and taught at the MVTU named after N. E. Bauman at the department "Missile and Impulse Systems". Professor (1962). Later he worked at the Ministry of Defense Industry.
Author and co-author of textbooks:
- Hvorostin A.E., Design of recoil devices. - M., 1971.
- Alferov V.V., Bakulin A.I., Orlov B.V., Svetlitsky V.A., Topcheev Yu. I., Ustinov V.F., Hvorostin A.E. Design of rocket and barrel systems. Textbook. Ed. B.V. Orlova. - M.: Mechanical Engineering, 1974, −828 s.
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946) - for the creation of a new model of artillery
- orders and medals