Vasiliy Gavrilovich Grabin (; – 18 April 1980) was a Soviet artillery designer. He led a design bureau (TsAKB) at Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). Grabin was chief designer of ZiS-3, the divisional field gun, which was the most numerous cannon of World War II (over 103,000 cannons were built). Grabin was the first artillery designer to use ergonomics in cannon construction (before the word ergonomics even appeared). In the 1930s he used physiologist consultations to optimize the design of cannons. Further reading Широкорад А.Б., Гений советской артиллерии: Триумф и трагедия В. Грабина, ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2003, 429 pp., . 1900 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Russian engineers People from Krasnoarmeysky District, Krasnodar Krai People from Kuban Oblast Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Heroes of Socialist Labour Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Russian engineers Russian inventors Soviet colonel generals Soviet engineers Soviet inventors Weapon designers Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery