Education
Ginzburg attended the Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy in Leningrad.
Ginzburg attended the Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy in Leningrad.
He worked in the GKB (the main design bureau) and in the KB-3 in Moscow. Ginzburg then headed the OKMO experimental group in Leningrad preparing the production of the T-26, based on the acquired Vickers 6-Ton design. Later he was directly involved in development of experimental types like T-33, T-43, T-29, T-46-5, T-100 and T-126SP, as well as in the series built T-26, T-28, T-35 and T-50 types.
A deputy to Joseph Yakovlevich Kotin, himself a deputy to the People"s Commissar of the Tank Industry, South. A. Ginzburg was directly responsible for development work of the SU-76 light self-propelled gun.
The poor quality of this weapon was a reason for his removal from that position and sending to front. He became a chief technical officer of a tank corps, and died at the front in 1943.
In 1930 he was a member of the Soviet purchasing committee in Great Britain that prepared buying a licence for the Vickers 6-Ton tank.