Alexander Borissowitsch Schelesnyakov

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Alexander Borissowitsch Schelesnjakow ( Russian Александр Борисович Железняков ; born January 28, 1957 in Leningrad ) is a Russian rocket and space technician in the field of development and production. He is also a writer and journalist .

Alexander Borissowitsch Schelesnyakov

Life

Zheleznyakov graduated in 1980 from the Kalinin Polytechnic Institute (now the State Polytechnic University ) in Leningrad as an engineer-physicist. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Space Academy "KE Ziolkowski" and worked as an engineer between 1980 and 1981 in the Leningrad Scientific Production Company NPO Impuls .

From 1983 to 1989 he worked in the scientific production association "Krasnaya Zarya" as an engineer, senior engineer, assistant to the head of department and head of department. Between 1989 and 2001 he worked in the Raduga experimental planning office (now a research and development company) as head of department, head of the center, deputy general director and finally general director. He later worked as a director, consultant and chief designer at the Central Institute for Robotics and Cybernetics (CRDI RTC) of the Russian State Center for Economy. Zheleznyakov has been working in an advisory capacity for the president of the space company RKK Energija since 2007 . Zheleznyakov is President of the Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Science in St. Petersburg.

Parallel to his job, Alexander Schelesnjakow is literary active; he advocates greater popularity of national and international achievements in space travel. It was first published on March 15, 1989. Since then, he has written thirteen books and several hundred articles. Schelesnjakow publishes under the pseudonyms "Aleksander Jurkewitsch", "Aleksander Borisow", "Konstantin Ivanov", "A.Zh." and "KI".

He is a member of the Russian Astronautical Federation, the Union of Russian Writers, the International Federation of Journalists (IJF) and the Union of Writers from St. Petersburg.

Awards

  • Medal Order of Merit for the Fatherland II degree (2007)
  • Medal 300 Years of St. Petersburg (2003)
  • Medal of the Roscosmos (Russian aerospace agency) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of space travel by Yuri Gagarin
  • "Medals of Merit" of the Russian Astronautical Federation, named after "K. Ziolkowski ”,“ Yu. Kondratyuk "," S. Korolev "," W. Gluschko "," M. Jangel "," W. Tereschkowa "
  • M. Jangel Medal of the Ukrainian National Space Agency
  • Laureate of the AR Belyaeva literary prize

Publications

  • Soviet Space: Chronicle of Emergencies and Disasters , St. Petersburg 1998.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1957 , St. Petersburg 2002.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1958 , St. Petersburg 2002.
  • Missile crash during take-off , St. Petersburg 2003.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1959 , St. Petersburg 2003.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1960 , St. Petersburg 2003.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1961 , St. Petersburg 2004.
  • The Mystery of the Missile Accidents , Moscow 2004.
  • Space station "Mir": from triumph to ... , St. Peterburg 2006.
  • Chronicles of the Space Era. Born in 1962 , St. Petersburg, 2006
  • The mysterious cosmos. Myths and Phantoms in Orbit , Moscow 2006.
  • Sex in Space , St. Petersburg 2008.
  • The main line: Poems , St. Petersburg 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Schelesnyakov, Alexander Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Железняков, Александр Борисович (Russian); Zheleznyakov, Aleksandr Borisovich (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian specialist in rocket and space technology in the field of development and production
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad