Axel Iwanowitsch Berg

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Axel Ivanovich Berg ( Russian Аксель Иванович Берг ; born October 29 . Jul / 10. November  1893 greg. In Orenburg ; † 9. June 1979 in Moscow ) was a Russian and Soviet scientists and naval officer .

Berg was the son of a Finnish-Swedish father and an Italian mother. In 1914 he joined the Imperial Russian Navy , where he served, among other things, on the liner Zessarewitsch and as a liaison officer on the British submarine HMS E8 . Berg was later a member of the Soviet Navy , most recently as a rear admiral . From 1953 to 1957 he was Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union.

Axel Berg became known as the developer of radar and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. He is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

literature

  • Axel I. Berg, Juri I. Tschernjak: Information and guidance. Dietz, Berlin 1969, DNB 456072284 .
  • Jakow I. Fet: Axel Iwanowitsch Berg, 1893–1979. Nauka, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-02-035020-5 .