FEATURES AND FORMATION OF RUSSIAN ENGINEERING THINKING DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Abstract

Engineering thinking during the Second World War 1941–1945 had special features. Scientists,
design engineers and technical schools made military equipment and military technologies.
The article presents the formation and features of Russian engineering thinking in the pre-war period
and in the period of the Second World War. Scientists and engineers contributed intellectually
into the victory over the enemy. Thanks to the activities of Russian scientific and engineering
schools, the breakthrough developments were made. The article discusses the scientific schools
of weapon engineers, metallurgical engineers, the founders and representatives of these schools.
The article examines the development of scientific schools that designed tanks. One of these
schools was the Chelyabinsk scientific school of tank design and creation that contributed a lot
into the development of science and higher engineering education in Chelyabinsk. The engineering
solutions of Russian scientists and engineers were non-standard, simple in design and feasible.
These features helped bring the victory closer.