Alexander Kemurdzhian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Kemurdzhian

Soviet aerospace engineer, designer of the first planetary rovers

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1921

Place of Birth: Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

Date of Death: 24-Feb-2003

Profession: engineer, inventor, academic, aerospace engineer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Alexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian (Armenian: ????????? ????? ??????????, Russian: ??????´??? ???´????? ?????????´?; 4 October 1921 – 25 February 2003) was a pioneering scientist, of Armenian heritage, in the space flight program of the Soviet Union.
As chief engineer-designer at the VNIITransMash, he designed the first rovers to explore another world - the Soviet Lunokhod rovers - making him the founder of the space transport machine-engineering science.