Vasily Gryazev Biography

Vasily Gryazev. The military childhood of the future outstanding designer. Vasily Petrovich Gryazev - an outstanding Russian designer of automatic artillery and small arms, for many years the deputy head - chief designer of the Tula design bureau of instrumentation. Hero of Socialist Labor. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Full Member of the Russian Engineering Academy and the Russian Academy of Rocket Artillery Sciences.

However, until the beginning of the 21st century, the general public about the glorious gunsmith was practically not known. At the same time, the role of Gryazev in the development of not only domestic, but also world rifle-gun weapons is difficult to overestimate. Vasily Petrovich lived a long and rich life. On the eve of the flying of the birthday of an outstanding designer, we will tell you in detail about it.

The history of the Grand of Mid is still shrouded in fog, which is not yet possible to completely disperse. In the photo - the native house of Vasily Gryazev. In the future, the famous monastery designer Vasily Petrovich Gryazev was born on March 4 of the year in a simple family of workers. Parents were unlikely to suspect that the name Vasily means “royal”, and, most likely, gave it to the boy in honor of the grandfather on the maternal side.

Mother Ksenia Vasilievna was a woman of a cheerful temper. She knew how to sing and dance in a young man, and she could not arrange family life for a long time. The husband was two decades older. Out-strict, concentrated, thoughtful, silent. What brought them? It’s hard to say. The union did not last long. In the photo - Ksenia Vasilievna. Mother’s life was cut off in the year when Vasya was not yet three years old.

However, a kind memory of her, along with a yellowed photograph, has been preserved for life. The boy remained together with his father, who was already fifty for the tragic year for the family. Pyotr Ivlievich Gryazev was from the village of Razorogi. This place near Tula has not been preserved to this day. After the death of his mother, Vasya turned out to be an extremely difficult childhood.

The photo of the year depicts a tactless five -year -old boy with shaved, not in size stockings and worn shoes, sitting on a bicycle with distorted wheels that see the views. Next to him, an elderly father, rather reminiscent of his grandfather, in a crankcase, a roasted and dirty boots with his hands limp on his knees, which at that time exchanged a sixth dozen.

Until the age of seven, Vasily’s life was not easy, and only when in the middle of the x went to school, she seemed to him a real paradise. Here, an inquisitive boy was interested in everything, and he studied very willingly. Once, before the war, when Vaska was going on for a tenth year, his father took him with him to his native places. Returning from there and crossing some kind of river, the old man finally said with sadness: “Goodbye, homeland!” Apparently, he no longer hoped to appear there anymore.

The son hung behind him so as not to soak his legs, and remembered this well. Left early without a mother, Vasya was left to his own way, he was brought up by the street. This is not to say that in his childhood he was a wrist, but by his own admission, by his own admission, as if he had become. Vaska acted, in essence, not only as an actor on the stage of life, but also as a director himself.

Even then, a fantasy beat in his brains with a key, which went mainly to the commission of various kinds of mischief, and far from always harmless. At the end of the x, teenagers, following Arkady Gaidar, who were walking ahead, seriously played the Timurovites, creating their teams at schools and courtyards, which sought to help lonely and elderly people bring water, to stick firewood, buy bread.

Vaska Gryazev did not engage in these games, but participated in others, in his opinion more serious.

Fights Street on the street were then quite common, and participation in them was considered a holy cause that did not tolerate any excuses. In winter, at Christmas, traditional fist fights between the Zarechensky and Chulkovsky Kazyuks took place. They measured with each other on the ice of the frozen Upa. There were, of course, classes and more harmless.

The guys of the pre -war pore loved to launch snakes. The boys dreamed of heaven. Over time, a spontaneous hobby changed to a rather conscious choice of aircraft mug in the Palace of Pioneers. True, to fuselage distant models with real internal combustion engines that worked in some hemp oil, Vasya failed to reach. But he constructed schematic models with rubber motors for nine years now.

The rubber tourniquet was spinning many times behind the screw, then the model was taken by the propeller and the tail and released. Under the influence of a rotating screw, it flew to a range from 50 to meters. Young Vaska Gryazev was already considered the best among peers by a proper -cut specialist. The fall of the forty -first year turned a lot in the life of the Tula.

Next to the Mid House, through the neighboring courtyard on the corner of Voronezh and Timiryazev streets, our mm howitzer was placed, which sang seven to eight shots on the enemy.If, before the approach of the Guderian troops, classes in schools were still held, then it was not studying. The lessons began to resume only in February. At the school, boys were intensively taught military affairs.

Six hours a week were allotted for this. It was not known how much the war would last, which required constant feeding, primarily from the younger generation. The guys were building on Kommunarov Street and even held maneuvers. The war years took away the father. At the very beginning of the forty -fourth, he died in the arms of Vasily, who was not even sixteen years old then.

The boy went to the All -Service Cemetery to agree on the funeral. But there they requested a death certificate. In order to get her, the boy had to lead a dead father to the hospital on the sleds. Then, for some thing from the house, he persuaded two men in the cemetery to dig a grave in frozen ground. The coffin helped to make a friend’s father, a carpenter from a harmonic factory ...

Vasily remained a round orphan, but life continued. Until adulthood, he was appointed guardianship Vera Ivanovna. She raised something in the garden and traded in the bazaar. Those lived. Before the end of the tenth grade, the war finally ended. To be continued….