Background
MENDELEYEV, Vasiliy was born in 1886.
MENDELEYEV, Vasiliy was born in 1886.
1903-1906 studied at Kronstadt Naval Engineer College.
1908-1916 at Baltic, Neva and other shipyards in Saint St. Petersburg. 1919-1922 at “Kubanol”’ Shipyard in Krasnodar. 1911 proposed plans for an armored tracked military machine (tank).
1911-1915 worked on blueprints for tank. One of his blueprints provided for a tank armed with a 120-mm naval gun and a machine-gun. The tank would have a maximum speed of 24 km/hr, carry a crew of eight and weigh 170 tons.
Also designed submarines and minelayers.