Biography of Alexei Garagashyan

Road roads Artem Achkasov; The personal archive of A. Garahashyan develops Garahashyan formed the basis of the most popular “Sherpes”, as well as their modern version - “archangs”. What is there, all -terrain builders around the world dismantled Alexei's ideas on the bones: the designs proposed by him were always distinguished by the grace of engineering thought, with a low weight and showed excellent characteristics.

How could a village guy come up with this? On the maternal line, he is a native Petersburg. Parents met while studying at one of the oldest universities in the country-the Leningrad Higher Art and Industry School named after Young Alexey attended the English and art school. For some time he studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic with a degree in Cusenic and Wheel Machines, but then threw the institute: Sport won.

Motokross, Motomotomnogory, Mototourism, Tial-Garahashyan not only drove, but also created his own technique, they wrote about his developments in the magazines “Behind the Wheel” and “Model-Designer”. The first project of a self-taught engineer, who was widely known in the year, was the Enduro-motorcycle “Bely”, has already become a model invented by Alexei.

A full -wheel drive “white” with 12 programs in the box was not just a prototype - on it the designer personally overcame extreme routes day after day. The passage of the legendary irresistible swamp was the first in the Absolute in the Ladoga Trophy made the creator of the winning model as an object of close attention. The personal archive of A. It was then that I began to make all -terrain vehicles ”Alexei Garagashian was not enough money, so everything that was lying around neighboring villages was used.

The gearboxes managed to unscrew from abandoned agricultural machinery, the engine from the Ural motorcycle, the bridges from the armored personnel carrier were found among Tutorchomet. First, he built a car with a articulated frame, and then a model with a “breaking” frame on the cameras from the Razran salle fire car. The new all -terrain vehicle with the trailer could not only go anywhere, but also swam like a traffic jam.

The design showed itself from the best side. As if you are in a jeep on the sidewalk! The construction of all -terrain vehicles began to gain ghostly commercial outlines. The “Cheburator” model already had normal low -pressure tires - ArcticTrans. With this machine, Garagashian received the first orders - to lay the racing tracks and work on power lines. In total, six copies were collected.

Then he deduced the simplest scheme of the all-terrain vehicle: “Two bridges from jeeps are cooked among themselves by two pipe-rollerones. Since bridges are part of the frame, the total weight of the structure is reduced.

Between the bridges is the engine with the front -wheel drive box and two drives - to the front and rear gearboxes. This scheme will master most lovers: here does not require a large number of parts of their own manufacture. The on -board all -terrain vehicle only seems to be a cube on large wheels. To begin with, it is necessary to adapt the rotation mechanism, and it, as a rule, does not adapt, it needs to be changed everywhere.

A similar situation with hub nodes, chain drive. It is important to observe the correct geometry. And my machine with two spaces of pipe and two bridges from the "patrol" will go, even if you cook it crookedly. " They control such a machine as a caterpillar tractor - a couple of levers. On the chain and now the dream of the "sideboard" came true. It remained to blame several important parts with a lathe.

But Alexei also outplayed the system: in the series of all -terrain vehicles “Dif”, he made a transmission without complex hub nodes. The drive with a chain to the asterisk walked directly to the hub - minus the shaft, slots and everything else. The designer admits that the solution was controversial: the chain in this case was constantly in mud. But the all -terrain vehicle itself turned out to be light and inexpensive, and the replacement of Soviet industrial chains was not difficult.

But they are very complicated: without owning the necessary technologies, it is better not to swing their manufacture. I came up with my own option, and he worked normally. And then he made a differential turning mechanism, because it is simpler and cheaper, ”explains Alexei. The all -terrain vehicle "Dif" combined the on -board scheme and simplicity of the design.

Then the development of tires began - they managed to launch into production not on the first attempt. I insisted - and, as it turned out, I was right. Now, wherever you look, everything is striving for such a drawing, ”Garahashyan states. The floating all -terrain vehicle was conceived by a simple, inexpensive, with a steel body. The engine is an unpretentious industrial "diesel", a Vazovsky box.

From the CP with a short chain gear, the torque was transmitted to the rotation mechanism from the Soviet caterpillar conveyor GAZ - more precisely, only to part of this mechanism, shaft and frictions; The case and the conical corner gear were not involved. Instead of a strip brake, I put ordinary car disk brakes. The tires of supernarial pressure formed the contour of the pneumatic cycle suspension with working pressure in hundredths of up to 0.2 atmosphere.

The prototype weighed all kg. A few years later, the serial model gained worldwide fame.The designer for his own noteworthy development of Alexei was a wheel machine, which became a prototype for the serial Arkhant. Therefore, I came up with a wheel option, ”the engineer smiles. I am not interested in working on an asphalt roller, because I do not want to be an asphalt rink operator. But I very clearly imagine myself as a driver of a wheeled all -terrain vehicle on an expedition, and therefore proposed my design.

” Artem Achkasov; Personal archive A. Garahashyana as a result, the transcontinental expedition “East! And this is on the "cheese" prototype! A car with a 10x10 wheeled formula received a articulated frame: two axes in front, the rest from behind. The steering is hydraulic, which allows a light movement of the helm to raise the front axle of the all -terrain vehicle or fold it with a “house”.

The technique created with an emphasis on professional use was initially heavier than basic models, but at the same time turned out to be more resilient and much more lifting - 3.5 tons instead of 1 t. Garahashyan in the future, the “head” of the wheel machine became the basis for the new four -wheeled all -terrain vehicle “Arkhant N”, developed by the experimental team of engineers without the participation of Alexei.

The design of all -terrain vehicles produced at that time by the famous Obukhov plant required changes, which means modernization of both production itself and the model range. In the Sherp pro model, they put a hot galvanizing steel and an aluminum body instead of steel. The Max model made a more spacious body extended to 20 cm, the curved panels of which carried, among other things, the power load - in addition to the integrated safety frame.

More reliable foreign gearboxes began to be used. In the year, the plant put into operation new production capacities, now up to 50 all -terrain vehicles per year are produced here. The components are almost completely Russian, with the exception of engine and tires. By the way, the new supplier of special tires with a diameter of 1.8 m was found in Belarus. The increased size of the cab and wheels is combined in the Arkhant with a strong safety frame.

At the same time, the car is “in the dimensions”: its width is mm with a length of less than 4 m. It’s easy to steer by an all -terrain vehicle: there are only two levers two pedals. The hydraulic system is responsible for the ease of control. The on-board drive is still chain, but the chains are now located in closed oil baths, which significantly increases their service life.

In the kung of the car, you can equip seats or sleeping places. The off -road stroke is - km - if you have not forgotten to fill the wheeled tanks: in each of them it is worth pouring 55 liters in addition to the standard tank for 95 liters. The design of this all -terrain vehicle, of course, is far from as simple as the first models of Alexei, but very reliable: the movement can be continued even with the loss of two wheels.

Through serious water barriers, caterpillar vehicles are all the more not able to cross, but for the structures of Garahashyan with a hermetic body boat and large displacing wheels this is not a problem. Travels for Garahashyan are a way of life. For this, he actually creates his all -terrain vehicles. Garahashyana “Arkhang N” is also available in the “Arctic” modification: a thermally insulated cabin, heated bedrooms, duplicated autonomous heater and many technical improvements that provide comfortable and safe work in the Arctic.

Today, machines created by the St. Petersburg engineer are successfully operated on oil and gas, exploration and mining enterprises, when servicing electric networks, and search work. Tests performed as part of the largest Russian scientific highly -wide expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Clean Arctic - Vostok” confirmed the suitability of technology for professional operation in the Far North.