Boris Sergeyevich Stechkin

Stechkin's tomb in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Boris Sergeyevich Stechkin ( Russian Борис Сергеевич Стечкин * July 24 ^jul. / 5. August  1891 ^greg. In Trufanowo at Tula ; † 2. April 1969 in Moscow ) was a Soviet engine, in particular aircraft engine designer and member of the Academy of Sciences of USSR since 1953.

He was also involved in the development of the Sikorsky Ilja Muromets , the first four-engine bomber (1914), and the Zar armored car from 1916–1917. Stetschkin graduated from the Technical University in Moscow in 1918 and then took over a chair there, which he held until 1927. He was also a founding member and one of the first employees of the ZAGI and head of the propeller drives department . Stetschkin also took part in the establishment of the Zhukovsky Academy and held a teaching position at it until 1953 . He held another professorship at the MAI from 1933 to 1937 . From 1954 Stetschkin worked in the engine laboratory of the Academy of Sciences, which he also headed from 1961 to 1962. He took on another professorship in 1954 at the Automobile Institute (today MAMI of the MSTU ).

Stechkin was the author of several scientific treatises. In 1929 the newspaper article Theory of Reactive Aircraft Engines was one of the first publications on this subject in the Soviet Union . This was followed by the books Gas Turbines (1956) and, after his death, Theory of Thermal Engines. Selected works (1970).

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .