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During the war, the tractor plant in Chelyabinsk was converted for the production of tanks. The "battle of designers" began, where our country and Germany fought. N. Dukhov was in those years at the forefront of the creation and modernization of combat vehicles. These were tankstanks T-28, KV-1, KV-2, T-45, etc.

Dukhov was working in a tractor factory. In 1926, the factory Komsomol assembly sent him to study in an institute in KharkovKharkov, followed by a transfer without test to mechanical faculty in the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute to study engineer-design for tractors and cars. He was responsible for designing the Soviet tractors and heavy tanks in the 1930s.

In 1932, after graduating from the Leningrad Machine-Building Institute, N. Dukhov worked as a designer at the Krasny Putilovets plant. After completing many difficult tasks, it became clear that he could do a lot. He developed accessories for a universal tractor, worked on the creation of a passenger car. Features of tank building N. Spirits comprehended within a few months. Before the start of the war, under his leadership, the tracks and armor were improved in the KV tank. He himself, in a tank overalls, drove cars around the area, participated in their repair.

One of the main participants in the "design war"

During the war, the tractor plant in Chelyabinsk was converted for the production of tanks. The "battle of designers" began, where our country and Germany fought. N. Dukhov was in those years at the forefront of the creation and modernization of combat vehicles. These were tanks T-28, KV-1, KV-2, T-45, etc.

Nuclear gunsmith

After the war, N. Dukhov was involved in the atomic project. Under his leadership, the first domestic plutonium charge and an atomic bomb were developed. In this matter of special state importance, his talent and extraordinary ability to find simple ways to solve complex problems were manifested with renewed vigor. Nikolai Leonidovich is considered the founder of the design school for nuclear weapons.

The birth of engineering talent

The young man was attracted to agricultural and electrical equipment. For the club N. Dukhov made a tube receiver with a loudspeaker. Engineering creativity was gradually born. When he studied at the Kharkov Institute of Land Management, deputy. People's Commissar of Education A.A. Polotsky, a fellow countryman of Dukhov, saw how he looked with interest at a foreign tube radio, and said that he should not be a land surveyor, but an engineer.

Krasnoputilovsky "tanker"

In 1932, after graduating from the Leningrad Machine-Building Institute, N. Dukhov worked as a designer at the Krasny Putilovets plant. After completing many difficult tasks, it became clear that he could do a lot. He developed accessories for a universal tractor, worked on the creation of a passenger car. Features of tank building N. Spirits comprehended within a few months. Before the start of the war, under his leadership, the tracks and armor were improved in the KV tank. He himself, in a tank overalls, drove cars around the area, participated in their repair.