Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg (? - 1943),
Absolved the Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy in Leningrad. There were a number of military academies in the Soviet Union of different specialties Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River He worked in the GKB (the main design bureau) and in the KB-3 in Moscow. In 1930 he was a member of the Soviet purchasing committee in Great Britain that prepared buying a licence for the Vickers 6-Ton tanks, the basis for the T-26 Soviet tank. The Vickers 6-Ton Tank or Vickers Mark E was a British light tank designed as a private project at The T-26 was a light tank used by the Soviet Union from the 1930s until World War II.
Ginzburg then headed the experimental group preparing the production of the T-26 type. Later on he worked in Leningrad. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River He was directly involved in development of experimental types like T-33, T-43, T-29, T-46-5, T-100 and T-126SP, as well as in the series built T-26, T-28, T-35 and T-50 types. A deputy to Zh. Ya. Kotin, himself a deputy to the Minister of the tank industry, S. A. Ginzburg was directly responsible for development work of the SU-76 light self-propelled gun. The poor initial quality of this weapon was a reason for his removal from that position and sending to front. He became a chief technical officer of a tank corps. He died at the front in 1943.