GIRD

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Memorial plaque for Korolev on the former GIRD building in Moscow

GIRD ( Russian Группа изучения реактивного движения ; German group for researching reactive drives ) was a group founded in 1931 to research recoil drives , as they were predicted by Konstantin Ziolkowski .

history

Working groups had been founded as early as the 1920s to deal with questions of rocket flight based on Ziolkowski's studies. In July 1931, the Office for Research into Reactive Drives (BIRD) was founded in Moscow with the support of OSSOAWIACHIM , from which the GIRD emerged in November 1931. Two missile offices were established in Moscow (MosGIRD) and Leningrad (LenGIRD). One was the Central Office for the Study of Missile Problems (ZBIRP) and the other was the All Union Society for the Study of Interplanetary Flight (OIMS). Later other groups emerged in Arkhangelsk, Baku, Brjansk, Kharkov, Novocherkassk and Tbilisi. The leading heads of this early Soviet rocket research were Friedrich Zander , Sergei Koroljow , who succeeded Zander in 1933, Juri Pobedonoszew and Michail Tichonrawow . They developed liquid-propelled rockets in the 1920s and 1930s . Korolev became the chief designer in the Soviet space program from 1946 .

The GIRD developed, among other things, the GIRD-09 and GIRD-X rockets, which were the first to use hybrid and liquid fuels. In 1933 the GIRD groups merged with the RNII rocket research institute (Reaktiwny Nautschno Issledowatjelski Institut).

literature

  • Peter Stache: Soviet missiles in the service of science and defense . Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00302-5 .
  • Peter Stache: The GIRD's first Soviet liquid rocket . In: Aviator Calendar of the GDR 1985 . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1984, p. 75-87 .

Web links

Commons : GIRD  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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