Matus Bisnovat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Matus Bisnovat

Soviet aircraft and missile designer

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1905

Place of Birth: Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 08-Nov-1977

Profession: engineer, combat engineer, aerospace engineer

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????, October 23, 1905, Nikopol – November 8, 1977), Soviet aircraft and missile designer. Bisnovat attended the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), graduating in 1931.
In 1938, he headed a research team in Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute TsAGI, Zhukovsky, where several high-speed experimental airplanes were developed, the SK-1, SK-2 and SK-3. From 1942 - 1944 Bisnovat oversaw the development of the "302" rocket/ramjet fighter in NII-3, supervised by A.
G.
Kostikov.
In 1946 he became head of Plant no.
293 and a team of engineers formerly in the OKB-293 of Viktor Fedorovich Bolkhovitinov.
There Bisnovat managed some later work on the Bereznyak-Isayev Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 Rocket-powered aircraft.
In 1948, with engine designer A.M.
Isaev he worked on the supersonic aircraft "Bisnovat 5".
In 1952 he developed the infrared homing air-to-air missile SNARS-250. Bisnovat fell prey to a 1953 anti-Semitic campaign (see Rootless cosmopolitan) against "cosmopolitanism" instigated by rivals of Lavrentiy Beria.
As a result he was ousted as head of Plant 293. In 1954 Bisnovat became head of design bureau KB Molniya, where he oversaw the development of air-to-air missiles R-40, R-60 (missile) and R-73 (missile). Bisnovat was awarded a doctorate in science in 1965. He died in 1977 from complications due to diabetes.