Mikhail Nikitovich (Nikitich) Markov (1910-1985) - Soviet designer of cotton-picking machines.
| Markov Mikhail Nikitovich | ||||
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| Date of Birth | October 4 (17), 1910 | |||
| Place of Birth | Tashkent Syrdarya region (Russian Empire) | |||
| Date of death | August 14, 1985 ( 74) | |||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | |||
| Occupation | engineer , designer of cotton pickers | |||
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Biography
He graduated from the Tashkent vocational school (1930).
Design engineer (1930-1939), senior design engineer (1939-1941), designer, senior design engineer, senior engineer, head of the design team (1941-1946) at the Tashselmash plant.
Head of the laboratory (1946-1958), head of the department (1958-1959), chief designer of the department (1959-1960), deputy head of the department (1960-1977), since 1977 - chief designer of the project at the State Public Design Bureau for cotton growing machines.
Under his leadership, the first Soviet cotton picker of the 小啸袦48 brand (1949) was created. The author of 70 inventions.
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) - for creating a design and mastering the production of cotton picking machines
- Lenin Prize (1967) - for the development of the design, mass production and introduction of machines in agriculture of a cotton-harvesting vertical-spindle double-row machine.
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- medals
- Honored Inventor of the Uzbek SSR (1964).
Sources
- Encyclopedia of cotton growing in 2 volumes. Volume 1. The main edition of the Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985
- Cotton production Publishing House of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR, 1985 (Obituary)