Aleksander Aleksandrovich Morozov (Russian: Александр Александрович Морозов; Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Морозов, romanized: Oleksándr Oleksándrovych Morózov; born 29 October 1904 – 14 June 1979) was a Soviet tanks designer, general, major-engineer (1945), and doctor of technical sciences (1972). He was awarded the Hero of the Socialist Labour award in 1942 and 1974. Morozov took part in the development of the first domestic tank, the T-24 (1930), and also the wheel-caterpillar BT-2 (1931), BT-5 (1932), BT-7 (1935) and BT-7M (1939) light tanks. As the technical lead of the project toget