Nikolay Pilyugin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nikolay Pilyugin

Soviet engineer

Date of Birth: 05-May-1908

Place of Birth: Krasnoye Selo, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1982

Profession: engineer, politician, aerospace engineer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Nikolay Pilyugin

  • Nikolay Alekseyevich Pilyugin (Russian: ??????´? ???????´??? ????´???; May 5(OS) (May 18(NS)), 1908, Krasnoye Selo - August 2, 1982) was Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems. He was a designer of control systems for boosters and spacecraft. He participated in design of the first ICBM "R-7" and Soviet space shuttle Buran. A graduate of the Baumann higher technical school (MVTU), Pilyugin worked at the Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics (TsAGI) starting in 1934, then joined RNII the Institute of Jet Propulsion.
  • In 1945, he joined Boris Chertok at the RABE institute in Germany, studying the design of the V-2 and other Nazi weaponry. In 1946, he along with Mikhail Ryazansky headed the newly formed NII-885.
  • Pilyugin developed gyroscopic guidance control systems and flight control computers for Soviet rockets beginning with the R-1 (a copy of the V-2).

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