ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE “PROKHOR”

ROVER All-terrain vehicle manufactured in July 2013 and all this time worked without a break. Engine turbo diesel Kubota V1505-T power 44 HP (with restrictor) and a torque of 118 Nm. The engine weighs about 120 kg. Fuel tank capacity of 70 liters, the average fuel consumption 2 litres per hour. Transmission of the VAZ-2110, main gear from a GAZ-66.

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SCHOOL OF ART

SCHOOL OF CREATIVITY“It is clear that… high-quality products can be released only in companies with a high level of technical equipment. It is also clear that to create such machines, apparatus and devices can only be highly skilled working class, has a great knowledge and a broad Outlook”.
 
(From the speech of General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev at the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Armenian SSR)

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THE CARRIER ROCKET “VOSTOK”

THE CARRIER ROCKET “I looked at the ship, which was in a few minutes to go in the unprecedented flight. He was handsome… I Thought that this beauty is eternal and will remain for the people of all countries for all times to come. In front of me was not only a wonderful creation of technology, but also an impressive work of art”, — wrote the first cosmonaut jury Alekseevich Gagarin on the spacecraft, on which the 12 April 1961, he paved the way to space.

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TOBOGGAN TRIO

TOBOGGAN TRIOOur magazine wrote many times about the reader’s development of engines for different homemade cars, planes, cars, hovercraft, and even for aircraft operated with the process of technical creativity. These enthusiasts pursue basically the same goal — the creation of relatively light weight of the engines, which power would fill a gap in the row engines of industrial production and would achieve the diys satisfactory performance.

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ARTILLERY TANK FOR THE RED ARMY

ARTILLERY TANK FOR THE RED ARMYIn July 1929 the revolutionary military Council of the USSR adopted the “System of tank-, tractor-, car-, breeveertien the red army” laid for the coming years program to create armored forces (from 1930 to 1933 – mechanized forces) the red Army. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, our industry started production of MS-1 tanks (T-18), which became the first production car T-24 from three-tier weapons, T-26. Developed prototype of the T-19 and T-20. It was a machine armed with a 37 mm Hotchkiss guns, PS-1, or even of 7.52-mm machine guns.

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THE CAR GETS ON THE RAILS

THE CAR GETS ON THE RAILSKomsomol construction project of the century called the Baikal-Amur mainline, the first group of builders which came here directly from the XVII Congress of the Komsomol. And today from all over the country to impact the construction site go to the envoys of the League, comes appliances. Go further miles of railroad tracks, and the entire path will reach 3 thousand km with extra: taiga jungle and mountain ranges, permafrost — in the most difficult conditions, requiring not only the labor heroism, but also continuous innovation, bold engineering solutions, modern technology.

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PIONEERS OF THE SKY

PIONEERS OF THE SKYOrder in our days hundreds of people could in less than an hour from Leningrad back to Moscow, someone was this way to pave the first. It occurred in July 1911. In those days all was the question: “Can I fly from Petersburg to Moscow?” Then the question could be resolved practically only with great risk to the lives of pilots.

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