Alexei Fyodorovich Bogomolov

Alexei Fedorovich Bogomolov , and AF Bogomolov ( Russian Алексей Фёдорович Богомолов ; born May 20, ^{. Jul} / 2. June  1913 ^greg. In Sizkoje, Smolensk ; † 12. April 2009 ) was a Russian engineer and pioneer of space travel.

Life

Alexei Bogomolow came from a farming family near Smolensk . In 1923 the family moved to Moscow . He studied and was a soldier at the front in World War II; he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and other honors for his work in Leningrad . After the war he worked at the Moscow Energy Institute and received his doctorate in 1949. In 1954 he published the first Russian textbook "Radar Basics".

He was co-founder of the Institute for Radio Telescope at the Moscow Energy Institute OKB-MEI and Director from 1954 to 1988 for the field of radio telescopy . In 1958 he was appointed professor.

He was instrumental in the first determinations of the flight paths of the first and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Russia. His research into binocular and Irtysh distance systems as well as satellite telemetry (Tral telemetry) opened the way for the Russian space program. He developed the Molnija TV satellite system and the Venera 15 / Venera 16 radar systems, as well as the telemetry systems for the Vega mission and the Fobos mission. He was the initiator of the 64 meter diameter TNA-1500 radio telescope in Medvezhii Ozera and Kaljasin .

Bogomolov was a hero of socialist labor (1958) and a Lenin Prize winner . He received two state awards from the USSR. He was a Meritor for Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1966) and Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1984).

Web links

• Biography of Alexei Bogomolov (Russian)
• Biography of Alexei Bogomolow (English)
• Obituary Alexei Bogomolov (Russian)
• Information on the website of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian)