Biography 29/02/20 Vladimir Bekauri: what in the Soviet Union executed the Creator of the battle bots
Until now, historians argue over whether Vladimir Bekauri genius or was just a brilliant hoaxer. In favor of the former we can say that Bekauri really invented the remote mine and even going to do the whole domestic army remotely controlled. But opponents of this story cited as evidence of the huge sums which were allocated to government on research-related and also the fact that, being under arrest, the inventor himself admitted that only fooled all of the head.
the Safe-maker
Vladimir Ivanovich Bekauri was almost the same age with Stalin and also his countryman. Bekauri was born in 1882 in Tiflis province. His father was a farmer, but had a Charter of nobility (according to the assumptions of some historians, the document was a fake). In Tiflis Bekauri, Jr. graduated from the railway College and after 2 years moved to permanent residence in Saint Petersburg. There he took up his favorite thing – invention. It should be noted that Vladimir Ivanovich before had been the author of various innovations, particularly relating to Railways.
the city on the Neva Bekauri took the safes. He has designed and built for them an electric alarm. On the work of a Georgian artist accidentally found out Lenin and invited Bekauri to yourself. Lenin is very interested in reliable safes to store important and sensitive documents. When work for the leader was finished, Mr Yakunin announced to his namesake, that can make mine, to be operated at a distance. So Bekauri, almost instantly, became a prominent scientist. But such a rise was under force, except that this genius or ingenious swindler.
BAMI
after a few months, in 1921, by decree of the government organized a Special technical FYRon (Sptecbureau), the head of which is Vladimir Bekauri. In the state Bureau in its heyday there were more than 500 people. A huge figure in those days. In Sptecbureau the money flowed. For example, one day to the next development, the government has allocated Bureau 150 thousand francs! That is simply an astronomical sum. Bekauri went on business trips in capitalist countries, lived in a mansion in Central Moscow and had many state awards and medals.
Played into the hands of Bekauri and the fact that just at the moment remote tanks carried away and Marshall Tukhacheskogo. Without the support of Mikhail, even a genius inventor would not do. And Bekauri this support.
One of the successful projects, and, according to some historians, and only became a remote mine, called “BEME”. The name of the bomb was composed of the 2 first letters of the names of its inventors: Bekauri and Mickevich. However, opponents of Vladimir Ivanovich inclined to think that in this case the credit should be fully given to Mitkevich. Anyway, the tests were successful, and soon “BEMI” came into production.
Dreams and shooting
Bekauri dreamed of creating a remote army: from machine guns and bombs and planes and submarines. For Sptecbureau power purchased abroad many different techniques and has provided for testing of inventions, entire airfields. In the 1930-ies under the leadership of Vladimir Ivanovich was born the so-called teletank, that is, the tanks on the remote control. In addition work was carried out and the creation of RC bunkers, planes and even submarines. However, all of these projects remained unfinished, at least during the life of Bekauri.
Tukhachevsky was executed in 1937, Bekauri in 1938. Vladimir Ivanovich was accused of sabotage and espionage in favor of Germany. In 1956 he was rehabilitated.
Yulia Popova
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