Fyodor Fyodorovich Petrov
Fedor Fedorovich Petrov ( Russian Фёдор Фёдорович Петров ; * 3 . Jul / 16th March 1902 greg. In Doktorovo, Tula Governorate , † 19th August 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet weapons designer.
Life
Fyodor Petrov was born into a peasant family. At the age of 15 he started working on the railroad. From 1922 to 1925 he served in the Red Army and in the evenings he studied at RabFak . In 1927 he entered the Moscow State Technical University . In 1930 he was transferred to the military-mechanical faculty of the Leningrad Mechanical Engineering Institute, which he graduated in 1931. In the same year Petrov began to work in Motovilicha works in Perm , first as head of the technical office of the workshop, then as head of the assembly department, from 1934 he worked as a chief designer.
In 1938 Petrov became chief designer for artillery at the Motowilicha works . The M-30 , D-30 , M-10 , D-1 field howitzers , the M-60 field cannon , the ML-20 cannon howitzer, and the D-5, D-10 and D-25 chariot cannons were developed under his leadership.
From 1955 to the end of the 1960s, the plant headed by Petrov was engaged in the development of missile systems for land forces, missile weapons for modernized submarines, anti-submarine missile systems.
Fyodor Petrov died in 1978 and is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Titles and honors
- Stalin Prize (twice in 1942, 1943, 1946)
- Lenin Prize (1967)
- Engineer Lieutenant General (1966)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1944)
- real artillery academician, doctor of engineering (1946)
- three times orders of Lenin
- Order of Kutuzo
- Suvorovorden (Second Class)
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Great Patriotic War (First Class)
literature
- N. Ogarkow and others: Sovetskaya wojennaja enziklopedija: Obekty-Radiokompas . Wojenisdat, Moscow 1978, p. 313. (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Biography of Fyodor Petrow. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Объекты военные - Радиокомпас . Military publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , Moscow 1978.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrow, Fyodor Fyodorovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1902 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 1978 |
| Place of death | Moscow |