Biography trailer

S-Aions was 5 hours ago to subscribe to me often reproach me for the fact that in my automobile materials I write a lot about the people who designed our cars. Like, I overload my texts with surnames. Like "nobody needs it." But I am firmly convinced - cars are not plants or animals. By themselves, they do not appear. And for me, the car history is inconceivable without acting persons - primarily car designers.

I really respect these people and love to study their biographies. More recently, I had to take the Moskvich engine to Fryazino. I saved him from Chermet. Like a bump, how I had to load and unload I will not describe - there is nothing special about it. But, towing the Mytishchi trailer, I thought all the way about a beautiful person, thanks to which such trailers were born in the distant X years.

I’m afraid that none of the owners thought that this modest, but indispensable iron box on a pair of “Zhiguli” wheels was presented with thousands of motorists by an outstanding Soviet designer with a bright dramatic biography. He owns the idea of ​​a mass two -wheeled trailer to a passenger car. Now the enterprise is called Metrovagonmash, since the year it has been building metro trains, on which everyone traveled.

We know perfectly other products of this enterprise - construction and agricultural dump trucks on the ZIL truck chassis. We were not supposed to know that in addition to this, the plant produces completely different vehicles of the protective color on the caterpillar.

For all said, this machine -building plant was considered “automobile” from the post -war period, as it was subordinate to the USSR Ministry of Automobile Industry. Even the military caterpillar chassis of the MMZ production designed for the installation of weapons often designated the same “automobile” indices in the range from BO, as well as dump trucks on the basis of Zilov, experts in the history of military equipment for a long time and appreciated the outstanding contribution of astrov to the development of transport engineering of the Soviet Union.

The future designer was born in Moscow in the year in the family of a professor of the Moscow Higher Technical School, which went down in history under the name of the revolutionary Bauman. In the year of his father and brother, Nikolai was shot for participation in a counter -revolutionary conspiracy. Nicholas, along with his mother, was expelled from Moscow. Nevertheless, in the 10ths, Astrov managed to obtain an engineering education-knowledge and abilities of a person, even with a “dubious” origin, could not remain not appreciated.

He was instructed to draw an independent rear suspension of the nam-1, the first such node in our country. Lipgart, the future famous chief designer of gas. Astrov, Lipgart and Victory But there were brutal times. Astrov was arrested for involvement in the so -called Prompartia. He did not get into the camp, but in the capital's prison design bureau, the so -called “sharashka”.

And again, the abilities were helped out by Nikolai Alexandrovich from trouble. By honest labor, he earned parole. And it was he who was instructed to demonstrate PT-1 to Comrade Stalin himself. The plant was founded as a branch of the famous Russo-Balta, they tried to make it automobile, but its production base was more suitable for light tanks and caterpillar machines. After some time, Astrov was appointed chief designer.

In the year, only the skill is argued to explain the problems arising with new machines, saved astrov from a new arrest, now for "wrecking". In the year, a tank t structure of Astrov was accepted for production. In wartime, Astrov himself sat behind the levers of the driver of the experimental tank, on the sides of which were installed barrels with a supply of gasoline, and went alone to Gorky.

He arrived in 14 hours, but was detained by the NKVD employees. Thanks to the intervention of the People's Commissar of the Tank Industry V. Malyshev, Astrov came out of custody. Lipgart, he entered the tank overalls, holding a helmet in his hands. Astrov became deputy chief designer for caterpillar armored vehicles. But its production was closely connected with automobile.

In Gorky, under the leadership of Astrov, light tanks were developed first with a 6-cylinder GAZ engine, a modification of the gas engine, then with gas, a pawed installation of two such engines installed after another. Under the leadership of Astrov, automobile designers worked on gas. For example, armored people well -known from civilian cars were designed: L.

Belkin, Yu. Sorochkin, A. In the first post -war years, he again developed combat vehicles with automobile engines. After the war, Astrov first had his own car, Moskvich from the first industrial parties. And in September, the collegium of the USSR Ministry of Automobile Industry discussed the technical project of the future Moskvich car. The machine of the year, which we know very well, did not exist even in sketches.

There were only a table of technical characteristics that differ from the characteristic of the serial machine, the assigned index, and an explanatory note with the differences of the novelty from the existing Moskvich.Astrov at that meeting acted, not as a designer, but as the owner of the Moskvich car. He complained about breakdowns and shortcomings, offered not to grab a new car, but to bring to mind the one that was.

But the famous academician E. Chudakov, the founder of Soviet automobile science, who had headed the meeting, convinced the audience that the creation of a new “Moskvich” was necessary, and the decision of the collegium gave the “green light” to the plant for the experimental work and the preparation of the production of “Moskviks” of the second generation.

After the war, the MMZ plant with the chief designer Astro did not stand aside from the automotive industry. The first dump trucks here were built here since the year on the ZISS-5 chassis of the post-war output. Krieger developed a modern ZIL truck for those years Nikolai Aleksandrovich gave the country a whole set of dump trucks that worked for many decades, not forgotten even in the 21st century, in the Moscow Region, rows of strong concrete and brick garages grew.

Employees of local factories, including MMZ, are actively acquired by their own cars. Astrov, as an engineer and an old motorist, knew very well that the capabilities of a passenger car for a subsidiary farm are often few. Sometimes it is just necessary to hook the body on two wheels on two wheels, like a pickup. And it is also easy to exclude when not needed. And you can store it right in a standard garage of 6 by 3 meters, set vertically at the rear wall.

Technical magazines of those years printed instructions on how to make a trailer for a passenger car with their own hands from improvised means, gave examples of supposedly successful products of this kind. It was not serious. It was required by the car factory car factory developed by professional engineers. As soon as the first “Lada” appeared, Astrov gave the task to his designers to develop a passenger car factory: cheap in production, simple in design, hardy, with an original frame and a spring rear suspension, collected from the details of the Zhiguli suspension.

The powerful plant did not cost anything to master such a trailer as the goods of public consumption. It was an exceptionally reasonable and far -sighted decision. The trailers of the MMZ series, for many years honestly helped hundreds of thousands of motorists. And for the plant in difficult years of perestroika and economic reforms, they became completely superfluous to an additional source of profit.

In the year, when Astrov was gone, they still left the Mytishchi conveyor.