Education
Moscow State Technical University.
Moscow State Technical University.
He was in charge of the Soviet tank design bureau for thirty-six of the most critical years in Soviet tank development (1940-1976). A graduate from the Moscow Mechanical Institute, in 1928 Morozov started work at a new design bureau headed by I. Aleksiyenko, at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory of Kharkiv (then part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, now of Ukraine). Here he contributed to the lacklustre T-12 and T-24 tanks, and the highly successful British Telecom fast tanks.
Under Mikhail Koshkin he was responsible for the drive-train design of the famous T-34 medium tank in 1937-1940, and led the design bureau from Koshkin"s death in 1940.
As chief designer of the bureau, Morozov presided over its temporary relocation to Nizhniy Tagil during the war years of 1941-1944, and his bureau redesigned components of the T-34 to make production as efficient as possible. He led the development of the T-44 medium tank and the T-54 and T-64 main battle tanks, receiving the Lenin Prize for the latter.
Morozov retired due to ill health in 1976 and died soon after. In 1979, the bureau where he worked for over fifty years was renamed Morozov Design Bureau in his honour.