Arkady Ilyich Ostashev

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Portrait of Ostaschew at the bottom right in a museum exhibition in Baikonur

Arkadi Iljitsch Ostaschew ( Russian Аркадий Ильич Осташев ), born September 30, 1925 in Maloje Wassiljewo ; † July 12, 1998 in Moscow , was a Soviet and Russian mechanical engineer , space pioneer and university professor.

Life

As a teenager, Arkady Ostaschew, together with his older brother Yevgeni, built a telescope with 10x magnification that could be swiveled in two planes, following instructions from the popular scientific journal Wissen ist Macht . They watched the moon and raved about flights to the planets of the solar system . Even in the second grade, Yevgeny convinced him of the top position in German science and technology and taught him German. In 1942 Arkady Ostaschew finished the 9th grade of middle school No. 32 in Elektrougli .

In 1942 Ostaschew enrolled at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) after completing a 2.5-month preparatory course and passing the admission test. In the fourth year course he managed to get to know German documents on rocket technology that a group of specialists in Germany had obtained after the German-Soviet War . After carefully studying the results of the German rocket developers, Ostaschew finally decided on the thesis project composite rocket with wings at the last stage with a special section on the movement stability of the wing stage. Due to the novelty of the topic, the selection of the supervisor was difficult, as the responsible dean Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev from the MAI, the deputy director Ivan Wassiljewitsch Ostoslawski of the Aviation Research Institute (LII) and the engine designer Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Polikarpow refused. The Dean's assistant advised to go to Kaliningrad to see Sergei Pavlovich Korolev , who agreed, so that Ostashev from 1947 to the end of 1948 under Korolev's direction in the experimental design office OKB-3 of the Kaliningrad Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (Research Institute No. 88 (NII-88)) wrote his thesis.

1948–1951 Ostaschew worked as an engineer and then chief engineer in OKB-1 of the NII-88. His boss Korolev promoted him, and in 1951 Ostashev became group leader of Department No. 5 of OKB-1. In 1952 he completed a course at the Moscow State Technical University as well as the rest of the state examination of the Marxism-Leninism University at the City Committee of the CPSU in Mytishchi . In 1953 he became Deputy Head of Department 19 of OKB-1, and in 1956 he joined the CPSU. In 1959 he became head of Department 721 of OKB-1.

In 1969, Ostashev became Scientific Advisor to the main designer for the tests of the OKB-1. In 1973 he took over the management of complex No. 7 (rocket and space tests). In 1975 he became test director in the technical area of ​​the Baikonur cosmodrome and thus also deputy technical director of the Apollo-Soyuz test project EPAS. Ostashev's professional activity since 1947 was devoted to the development and use of missiles. In particular, he led the design planning for the intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 , which was built in 1953 and tested. He was the author and co-author of over 200 technical articles and invention reports. Since 1964 he has been a lecturer at the chair for complex systems for the design of aircraft at the MAI. In particular, he gave lectures on the testing of rocket technology for his employees. He participated in the description of the history of the RKK Energija , which emerged from the OKB-1. In 1996, the Russian President Yeltsin recognized him for his contributions to the expansion of national cosmonautics. For the results obtained in the professional activity of AI Ostashev, a personal pension of republican importance was assigned.

Afterlife

After Ostashev's death, his body was cremated in accordance with his orders and, with the approval of the Kazakh government, his ashes were buried in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the same grave as his older brother Yevgeny, who died in the 1960 Nedelin disaster . The star Arkadia in the constellation Libra was named after Arkadi Ostaschew . In the Moscow Cosmonaut Museum there are documents from Ostashew's personal archive.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthplace of the Ostaschew brothers (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
  2. ↑ Arkadi Ilyich Ostaschew (Russian, accessed April 30, 2016).
  3. ↑ Internet exhibition: Ostaschew Arkadi Iljitsch (Russian, accessed April 30, 2016).
  4. ^ The Ostaschew brothers from Elektrougli (Russian, accessed April 30, 2016).
  5. ↑ The view to the moon. The Ostaschew Brothers (Russian, accessed April 28, 2016).
  6. ↑ Rockets and People (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
  7. ↑ EPAS participant (Russian, accessed April 28, 2016).
  8. ^ The Seven (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
  9. ↑ Presidential Decree of April 9, 1996 (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
  10. ↑ Ostaschew's Last Will (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
  11. ↑ Tombstone of the Ostashev Brothers (2010). Retrieved June 14, 2019 (Russian).
  12. ^ Arkadia Name Certificate (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Ostaschew, Arkady Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Осташев, Аркадий Ильич (Russian); Ostashev, Arkady Ilyich (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet space pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Maloje Wassiljewo
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1998
Place of death Moscow