Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin

Aleksander Leonovitch Granin appears in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]. He is the director of the OKB-812 Granin Design Bureau, or the Graniny Gorki Research and Design Lab, and has been twice awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Medal, which he wears proudly on his suit jacket. It was he who created the basic design for the mobile ballistic missile system SS-1C.

Granin is revealed to be the original designer of the first Metal Gear, although Colonel Volgin and the USSR decide that Sokolov's idea of the rocket-equipped Shagohod tank is a greater idea, which leaves Granin greatly embittered. He plans to send all of his research and designs for Metal Gear to a collegue in America, the father of Hal Emmerich (who is revealed to also be a champion of the bipedal-walking-tank weapon in America by Sigint, though he is of course widely criticized for the idea), which will eventually be used by Hal to build Metal Gear REX more than four decades later. However, it is implied by Ocelot's statements to the CIA Director at the end of the game that Granin died before he could send the documents to America, as Ocelot himself seems to have stolen the designs to present them as a possible future weapon to his bosses back in America. It is also worth noting that Granin and his connection to Metal Gear gives new meaning to Sergei Gurlukovich's comment "the technology that gave birth to these weapons is Russian." Granin, drowning his sorrows, is confronted by Naked Snake and decides to help him with his mission to rescue Sokolov and get him back to the United States, thereby eliminating his research rival, and hopefully having the Shagohod destroyed in the process. Granin would not live to see if his plan would come to fruition, as Volgin, suspecting Granin of being the spy aiding Snake, "interrogates" him by putting him inside a large steel barrel and pounding away at it with his electrically-charged attacks, eventually killing Granin.