May 27, 1899Yekaterinoslav GovernorateDied on 10 Mar 1938 (aged 38)
engineer
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About Konstantin Chelpan
Konstantin Fyodorovich Chelpan (Russian: ?????????? ????????? ??????) (27 May 1899 – 10 March 1938) was a prominent Soviet engineer of Greek background.
Head of the Engineering Design Bureau of the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory, chief designer of the T-34 tank engine.
Awarded the Order of Lenin, he was politically repressed and executed under a mass persecution ordered by Joseph Stalin, but politically rehabilitated after death.