"Sprockets" Gorrikera Bashny.Net

Unfortunately, seventy years after the end of World War II, we still do not know much about the history of those terrible and heroic events.

I'm sure many of the readers and often happy to revise the Soviet war films. Almost each of them must meet engineering construction, popularly dubbed anti "hedgehog." Several rail welded to one another, resembling a six-pointed star.

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For years, this military fortifications was read product soldier creativity. And no one thought that the "hedgehog" is the author, who had thorough work to create an effective barrier against German tanks. The name of this person, Michael L. Gorriker



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Michael L. Gorriker



Michael L. - member of two world wars, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic - Major General technical forces, head of the Kiev Tank School.



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So what's the genius of the "hedgehog"? The simplicity of its design. Profile rails and cut into approximately equal pieces. Then the cut pieces were welded to each other in the form of the letter "F". And yet, insurmountable barrier to the German technology is ready.

However, in this case it required a precise calculation of welding. "Hedgehog" is not supposed to be above the top front plate of armor. Its height is 80 cm. The tests proved that the "right hedgehog" could withstand hitting a tank weighing 60 tons.

The next phase was the defense of the effective installation of fences. Line of defense of the "hedgehogs" - four rows of staggered - turned into a serious problem for the tanks. The meaning of the "hedgehog" in the fact that he had to be under the tank, and the tank - be reared. As a result, the final stop armored vehicle, "hovering" above the ground, and could knock out of anti-tank weapons.

"Asterisks Gorrikera" as some documents were called boom, many have turned to the "ideal" that the future did not require revision. This invention became a symbol of the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941. Only in the defense of the capital near the borders of the USSR were placed around 37,500 "hedgehogs". There is a monument in Khimki antitank hedgehogs, but there are no names of their creators.



Film director Vladimir Gorikker, son of a general, made great efforts to Moscow there was a plaque in honor of his father. "The first days after the attack on the USSR, the Nazis, I remember well. Father was appointed to command the defense of Kiev, which was approaching the enemy. The works were many, but when he returned home late at night, Dad, instead of a little rest, "requisitioned" I toy models of tanks, which previously he himself gave, and almost all night poring over them, moving on the table together with some designs of matches connected with glue or plasticine. I, the kid, the purpose of these gizmos were unclear. I even think that a father, so trying to escape, struggling with insomnia. But once he returned earlier than usual, literally radiant, and almost from the doorstep enthusiastically shouted: "We screwed two tanks !!!".



Here those on! The family also knew how closely it relates to the preservation of art, it gives scolding, even for minor offenses, which can cause damage to the tank, and then - does not hide the joy at the failure of two war machines ... Only much later I realized the significance of the event, that happened that day at the site of the Kiev Sirec Panzer training school "- says the son of the famous military engineer.

Here is an excerpt from an act of tests conducted by 3 July 1941. "The Commission as part of the Secretary of the CC CP / B / C of mashinostreniyu comrade. Bibdychenko, Head. Oboronnnoy Industry Department of the Central Committee comrade. Yaltanskogo, Secretary of CPC comrade. SIDA, the Chief of the Kiev Garrison Major General Comrade. Gorikkera, director of the factory Bolsheviks - tov.Kurganova 225 comrade. Maximov, Lenkuznya comrade. Merkureva and representatives KTTU colonel and military engineer Rajewski 2 rank Kolesnikova tested the anti-tank obstacles - 6 ultimate star made of scrap rail, the proposal by Major General tehvoysk comrade. Gorikkera.

The author during the filming of Gorrikere

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The conclusion of the test, trial



Tank forced to stop as Fang [boom] was between the drive wheel and caterpillar crawler and canine stars 3rd line fence, resting at the bottom of the bow of the tank and lifted into the air last. This provision is without external assistance does not give the opportunity to continue the movement. Stop the tank on the fence is the most effective thing for the execution of his artillery on a pre-sighted sections of the barrier installed

Conclusion: The Commission considers that anti-obstacle six-pointed stars are an effective anti-theft device, a type of fence can be widely applied to the district level, catwalk and important directions. "



In early September 1941, General Gorikker was recalled to Moscow, where he served as Head of the Main Department of Road Transport and Road Service of the Red Army, the Chief of the Leningrad Front avtoupravleniya, head of the General Inspection of motor control of the Red Army. After the war - in command of Automobile School, he died in Moscow in 1955.

By the way, the idea of ​​our "hedgehogs" and later used in the defense of the Germans in 1944-1945. Today "star Gorrikera" been adopted by many armies in the world. I think that in certain circumstances and in modern warfare, they could not play at home, but a significant role in the success of the defense on the one hand, and the failure of the other attacks. ©

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