Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak
Alexander Yakovlevich Beresnjak ( Russian Александр Яковлевич Березняк ; born December 3 . Jul / 16 December 1912 greg. In Bojarkino in Kolomna , † 7. July 1974 in Dubna ) was a Soviet rocket engineer. From March 1957 he was the chief designer of the MKB Raduga design office (МКБ Радуга), an offshoot of the OKB-155 Mikoyan-Gurewitsch , in Dubna.
Life
Bereznyak worked in the aviation industry from 1931, graduating from the Moscow State Aviation Institute (MAI) in 1938 . He worked in the design office of Viktor Fyodorowitsch Bolchowitinow . Together with Alexei Isayev , he developed the Bolchowitinow BI-1 rocket aircraft from 1941 . From 1946 he was the deputy chief designer of the OKB-2, which was staffed with German specialists, under the direction of Heinz Roessing . Until 1949 he was responsible for testing the OKB-2 346 rocket aircraft . In 1951 he was commissioned by the Ministry of Aviation to develop cruise missiles . In 1957 he became chief designer of his own experimental design office .
Planes
- Bolkhovitinov BI-1
- OKB-2 346P, simplified variant of the 346 for gliding tests
- OKB-2 346
- OKB-2 486 in the OKB-2 developed by Siegfried Günter delta wing based on the 346, only one wind tunnel model built
Missiles created during his leadership at MKB Raduga
- KS-1 : anti-ship missile , 1955
- K-10S : anti-ship missile, 1961
- Ch-20 : cruise missile, 1959
- Ch-22 : cruise missile, 1962
- KSR-2 : cruise missile, 1962
- Ch-26 : anti-ship missile, 1973
- Ch-23 : Air-to-ground missile, 1968
- Ch-28 : anti-radar missile, 1973
- Ch-25 : air-to-surface missile, 1976
- Ch-58 : anti-radar missile, 1984
literature
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia , Volume 30, 3rd Edition, Moscow, 1978, p. 579.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dimitri Sobolew: German traces in Soviet aviation history. Mittler, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0675-0 , p. 199/200
- ↑ http://www.testpilot.ru/germany/dfs/346/dfs346.htm
- ↑ http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/okb2/486/486.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bereznyak, Alexander Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Березняк, Александр Яковлевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet missile designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boyarkino near Kolomna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7th 1974 |
| Place of death | Dubna |