Boris Chertok, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Chertok

Soviet rocket designer

Date of Birth: 29-Feb-1912

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 14-Dec-2011

Profession: engineer, university teacher, aerospace engineer, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Boris Evseyevich Chertok (Russian: ????´? ????´???? ?????´?; 1 March 1912 – 14 December 2011) was a Russian electrical engineer and the control systems designer in the Soviet Union's space program, and later found employment in the Russian Roscosmos in Russia.
Major responsibility under his guidance was primarily based on computerized control system of the Russian missiles and rocketry system, and authored the four-volume book Rockets and People– the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946.
He retired in 1992.