Background
BEKAURI, Vladimir was born on December 27, 1882 in village Kitokhi, Tiflis Province.
Georgian military engineer and inventor
BEKAURI, Vladimir was born on December 27, 1882 in village Kitokhi, Tiflis Province.
1903 graduate Tiflis Railroad Engineer College.
1903-1905 technician on construction of Transport-Caucasian Railroad. 1905 technician on railroad at Khashuri. 1907-1917 odd jobs in Siberia, then worked in Saint St. Petersburg.
1919-1920 worked in Petrograd for city heating system and railroad. From 1921 headed Special Technical Bureau for Military Inventions, then various military design bureaus. 1905 took part in revol, making bombs and weapons for revolutionaries in Khashuri.
1905-1907 in hiding from police. From 1919 worked on military inventions. Designed many weapons for Red Army, including: "BEMI” radiooperated bomb trigger, designed in conjunction with Academician V. F. Mitkevich and put into service in 1929.
Devices for slinging motor-cycles, armored cars and light tanks under airplanes. Donated his cash awards to public charities: for famine relief in the Volga region (1922), to purchase a tractor for his nativ village (1931) and for the construction of hospitals in Khashuri and in the village Ali (1934-1936). 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.