Chief Designer of T-34 (vs Porsche), English subtitles

Chief Designer of T-34 /Главный конструктор/, with English subtitles. Historical details of Mikhail Koshkin's latent competition against Ferdinand Porsche. The movie is dedicated to the memory of the former soldier of WWI, graduate of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Chief Designer of the T-34 Medium Tank, Mikhail Koshkin. Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin (Russian: Михаил Ильич Кошкин, December 3, 1898, Brynchagi, Yaroslavl Oblast – September 26, 1940) was a tank designer, chief designer of the famous T-34 medium tank. The T-34 was the most produced tank of World War II. In 1937 (After the post of Deputy Chief Designer of St. Petersburg Kirov Plant), he lead a new team to design a replacement for the BT tanks at the Kharkiv Locomotive Plant (KhPZ). He died after contracting pneumonia while driving prototypes of T-34 tank on a grueling 2,000-kilometre (1,250 mi) drive from Kharkiv to Moscow for a demonstration. Mikhail Koshkin was posthumously awarded the State Stalin Prize in 1942 and the Order of the Red Star. In 1990, he was posthumously decorated with the highest civilian honour, Hero of Socialist Labour.