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Alexander Garsoev (Garsoyan) - the main "diver" of the Soviet Union, the first projector and constructor designer of Soviet submarines. Garsoev Alexander Nikolaevich (11.02.1882 / 1886 Tiflis (according to other sources of St. Petersburg) - 1934) - the main "diver" of the Soviet Union, the first designer and designer of Soviet submarines. UNDERWATER KAMIKAZE ----------------------------- As an astute man, he was well aware that the seabed and is the pinnacle of this progress. However, not only this, but also the future. By the time the literature of science fiction - it is necessary to give them credit - has managed to capture the imagination of a whole generation of young, educated people. The image of the famous Captain Nemo was presented by Jules Verne adequately: a daring not manage to reach the bottom vertices. Needed more knowledge, education, technical experience, engineering thought and scientific approach. The addiction is still very young Alexander to the sea based on a very deep traditions: Armenians have always maintained good relations with the water element, and in the Middle Ages were regarded as one of the great maritime nations. Then fellow Russian pioneer of scuba diving - Garsoev was just them - still had a "private beach" and the professional use of this fact. Being cold-blooded, and low-key personality, he nonetheless loved and knew how to surprise people, "asked how the Armenians have a craving for the sea, I remember that all the ignorant! And the great Cilician ports, and a lively trade with Genoa and Florence, and the Armenian court, furrowed expanse of the Mediterranean and the Biscay waters, and paintings of Hovhannes Aivazovsky, as well as its rank, as well as the fact that even during the Crimean War, Caucasus and Black Sea fortified line he commanded the Armenian - Catholic Lazar Serebryakov, an excellent organizer, a connoisseur of Oriental languages, diplomat and military sailor, also the founder of Novorossiysk. " Amazing continuity: the summer of 1913 the future of the Soviet Union Fleet Admiral Ivan Isakov refused a request with respect to admission to the St. Petersburg Marine Corps. He was well passed the exams, but strict Admiral said: "Why did this young man from Armenia to go on the naval service? Ground troops - is another matter. But the navy "Vano 19-year-old - so at the beginning of the century called Isakov - in the hearts exclaim:" How the admiral does not know about the Armenian sailors? In the end, the famous Alexander Garsoeve! "In the summer of 1913, Alexander Garsoev really was already famous. "Samotopami" called on the turn of the century the first submarine: the development of the deep in every direction was the military-technical necessity for almost every maritime power. However, the generosity of the state treasurer in relation to "water Kamikaze" was conditioned not so much strategic importance of the work they perform, how many other considerations, "supplement to the grant sub-iodnikov not to the detriment of the treasury: to live every one of them long - all of them suicide bombers." Being cold-blooded, and low-key personality, he nonetheless loved and knew how to surprise people: in spite of everything Garsoev still living. The main submarine naval forces, in 1905, he passed the exam for the full course of the Marine Corps - the good, the ignorant Admiral did not exist in the examination committee - and graduated mate and submarine officer training. In this role, he met disastrous for the Russian Navy in 1905: in spite of the outstanding activities of Admiral Stepan Makarov, the Japanese campaign ended in a fiasco: in the national fleet base died within two years. Alexander Garsoevu was to raise from the bottom of the famous Russian school tradition and oppose the very real freeze on development of underwater navigation projects. On this occasion, the sailors even composed a ditty: be rolled to the bottom of all our Ark of Noah, 6 If the name is not one - Captain Garsoev. As a true shipbuilder, he was much like some literary heroes - the genius scientists who had the courage and dignity on himself to carry out testing of its own theoretical developments: in this new reality, where many reefs, everything is possible! Alexander Garsoev - one of the few scientists in history, who practiced in the waters of hostilities. However, scuba business in any case was an extreme century, even in peacetime: https://www.facebook.com/OurHOMEisARMENIA/photos/alexander-garsoev-garsoyan-the-main-diver-of-the-soviet-union-the-first-projecto/1393536600673389/