This day in history. Part 1 On October 26, 1880, General Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), was born without torture. Brutally tortured by the Nazis on February 18, 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to the records of the Germans, "... This greatest Soviet bulwark, a career officer of the old Russian army, a man who was over sixty years old, proved to be fanatically devoted to the idea of loyalty to military duty and patriotism Karbyshev can be considered hopeless in the sense that he served us as an expert in military engineering. On October 26, 1904, Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov was born, an outstanding tank engineer, one of the main creators of the nuclear shield of the Soviet Union. Under Duchov's leadership, the KV-2 heavy tank was developed. In 1944 he was in charge of tank production in Tankograd of Chelyabinsk. Under him, the IS-3 heavy tank and later the IS-4 heavy tank were put into service. From 1948 until his death, Dukhov took an active part in the Soviet atomic project, holding high leadership positions. Nikolai Leonidovich was awarded the first degree of Hero of Socialist Labor on September 16, 1945 for his great contribution to the creation of Soviet tanks, and the second and third degrees of Hero of Socialist Labor were awarded to Dukkhov for his work on the Soviet Union's atomic project. Museum at MAX.