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Mikhail Koshkin

1898 - 1940

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Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin (Russian: Михаи́л Ильи́ч Ко́шкин; 3 December 1898, Brynchagi, Yaroslavl Oblast – 26 September 1940) was a Soviet tank designer, chief designer of the famous T-34 medium tank. The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II. He started out in life as a confectioner, but then studied engineering. In 1937, the Red Army assigned him to lead design bureau KB-190 to design a replacement for the BT tanks at the Kharkiv Komintern Locomotive Plant (KhPZ) in Kharkiv. Koshkin imagined the T-34 tank after BT tanks tested during the Spanish Civil War proved to be under-armored and prone to catching fire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Koshkin is the 222nd most popular engineer (down from 204th in 2019). (down from 2,795th in 2019)

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Among engineers, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 222 out of 389. Before him are Charles Renard, André Waterkeyn, Harvey Postlethwaite, Eugen Sänger, Menno van Coehoorn, and Gene Kranz. After him are Robert Mallet, James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, Anousheh Ansari, and Seymour Cray.

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Among people born in 1898, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 160. Before him are Anthony McAuliffe, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Boughera El Ouafi, Lev Knipper, Jimmy Douglas, and Norman Vincent Peale. After him are Alfons Gorbach, William Astbury, Erich Bey, Alfred Sauvy, Eugen Wüster, and Louis Adamic. Among people deceased in 1940, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 121. Before him are Karimeh Abbud, Robert Maillart, Albin Lermusiaux, Fanny Brate, Piero Toscani, and Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler. After him are Nikola Ivanov, Tom Mix, Ljubomir Davidović, Mato Kósyk, Kamal-ol-molk, and Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov.

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