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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Koshkin has received more than 123,030 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mikhail Koshkin is the 204th most popular engineer (down from 199th in 2019).

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Among engineers, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 204 out of 389. Before him are Alphonse Pénaud, Walter Hohmann, Béla Barényi, Evgeny Paton, Vladimir Petlyakov, and Bassel al-Assad. After him are Alexey Sudayev, Arthur Morin, Nikolay Makarov, Semyon Lavochkin, Benoît Fourneyron, and François Hennebique.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 138. Before him are Helen B. Taussig, Erich Bey, Dámaso Alonso, Anthony McAuliffe, Luís Carlos Prestes, and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay. After him are Hisamuddin of Selangor, Mikhail Koltsov, Josep Sunyol, Karl Koller, Lev Knipper, and Emmanuel Bove. Among people deceased in 1940, Mikhail Koshkin ranks 100. Before him are Gyula Kellner, Wehib Pasha, Marcel Granet, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Janusz Kusociński, and Alfred Fowler. After him are Udham Singh, Maciej Rataj, Mikhail Koltsov, Karimeh Abbud, Karl Muck, and Silvestre Revueltas.

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