Sergey Petrovich Gurenko ( 1904 - 1966 ) - weapons designer.
| Gurenko Sergey Petrovich | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | April 13 (26), 1904 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Port arthur | |||||
| Date of death | 1966 | |||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | |||||
| Occupation | weapons designer | |||||
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Biography
Born September 13 ( September 26 ), 1904 in Port Arthur (now Lushun , China ). Since 1919 he lived in Chelyabinsk , then in Ukraine.
In 1926-1928 he served on the cruiser Chervona Ukraine (turbine driver).
He graduated from the rabfak of the Leningrad Technological Institute (1929), the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute (1934), a mechanical engineer.
In 1934-1947 - designer, chief designer of the Perm Engineering Plant named after V.I. Lenin (Motovilikhinsky plants).
In 1940-1941, the chief designer of the 107-mm anti-tank gun M-75.
During the Great Patriotic War he took part in the creation and improvement of artillery guns. He proposed to put the artillery part of the ML-20 gun on the undercarriage of the KV tank, which allowed the creation of the self-propelled gun SU-152 .
Since 1947, the chief designer of the defense plant in Saratov .
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1942) - for the development of new types of artillery weapons;
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943 - for the development of a new type of artillery weapons (SU-152)
- Order of Lenin (1941)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944)
- Order of the Red Star (1945)
- medals
Sources
- Encyclopedia of the Urals (inaccessible link)
- Diaries. 1941-1945. Arkady Perventsev.
- The Urals forged victory: a reference book. P. G Agaryshev, Committee for Archives Affairs of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Bashkortostan. South Ural Book Publishing House, 1993 - Total pages: 382