Ivan Fyodorovich Petrov

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Ivan Fyodorovich Petrov

Ivan Fedorovich Petrov ( Russian Иван Фёдорович Петров * September 24 . Jul / 6. October  1897 greg. In the village Schtschipzowo, Rajon Yaroslavl ; † 27. July 1994 in Moscow ) was a Russian test pilot and university teachers .

Life

Petrov came from a peasant family. After graduating from the three-class parish school in 1908, he worked in a bookbindery in Yaroslavl and then in a white lead factory . From 1911 he worked in river shipping . He drove as a sailor from Rybinsk to Astrakhan and repaired propulsion systems in winter. During the First World War he was drafted in 1916 and was a seaman in the Imperial Russian Navy in the Baltic Fleet .

In 1917 Petrov took part in the assault on the Winter Palace . In the 1st Red Guard unit under the command of Pawel Efimowitsch Dybenkos , Petrov was involved in the fighting against Cossacks near Pulkowo , Gatchina and Alexandrowskoye in the southeast of Petrograd . In December 1917 he completed his training as an aircraft mechanic at the machine school of the Baltic Fleet and was sent to the air combat school in Krasnoye Selo . In 1920 he completed his training at the military school of naval pilots in Samara . 1923–1925 he was a 1st class naval pilot instructor at the Sevastopol Naval Aviation School . This was followed by studies at the Military Academy for Air Force Engineers "Prof. NJ Schukowski ” graduated in 1929.

Petrov now worked as a test pilot in the Research Institute of the Air Force in Moscow, of which he became deputy chief in 1939. He carried out the flight tests of the planes Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpows and Andrei Nikolajewitsch Tupolews and flew 137 types of aircraft.

From June 1940 to May 1941 Petrov was head of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (ZAGI) in Zhukovsky . He founded a flight department there with the scientists Anatoly Alexejewitsch Dorodnizyn , Mstislav Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch , Vladimir Petrowitsch Wettschinkin , Sergei Alexejewitsch Christianowitsch , Ivan Vasiljewitsch Ostoslavski , Georgi Petrowitsch Swishchev , who also had to learn to fly, and Sergei Petrovich Swishchev .

In 1941, Petrov became Deputy Commander of the Red Army Air Force . During the German-Soviet War , from late August to early September 1941, he led one of the first air operations against the Guderian tank group for the Brjansk Front .

In 1942 Petrov became head of the Research Institute of the Civil Air Fleet in Moscow. In 1947 he became head of the Flight Research Institute (LII) in Zhukovsky. In 1950 he was given leave of absence for health reasons.

When it was ordered in the summer of 1951 to dissolve the physics and technology faculty of the Lomonosov University Moscow (MGU), Petrov was asked by Anatoly Alexejewitsch Dorodnitsyn for help with regard to Stalin's predilection for aviation . In a personal conversation with Stalin, Petrov managed to keep the physical-technical faculty of the MGU. In 1952 Petrov became the first rector (until 1962) of the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MFTI) in Dolgoprudny , which was again independent and which was incorporated into the MGU in 1946. 1958–1961 set up Petrow and Ivan Timofejewitsch Spirin flight courses for students with the aircraft Lissunow Li-2 , Jakowlew Jak-12 , Jakowlew Jak-18 and gliders . Later he worked on general problems as Vice Rector and taught at the MFTI.

Petrov was buried in the Bykovskoye Cemetery in Zhukovsky.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Iwan Fyodorowitsch Petrov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Журнал “Авиапанорама” - aviapanorama.ru: Петров Иван Федорович (accessed July 19, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Петров Иван Федорович (accessed July 19, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Dolgoprudny: Петров Иван Федорович - генерал-лейтенант авиации, ректор МФТИ (accessed July 19, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b Петров И. Ф .: Авиация и вся жизнь . Границ, Moscow 2014, ISBN 978-5-94691-641-7 , p. 69, 139 ( trpl7.ru [PDF; accessed July 16, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Василий Алексеевич Шебалдов: ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ ВЕТЕРАНА ВОЕННОЙ КАФЕДРЫ (accessed July 19, 2019).
  6. ↑ Petrov's plaque on the columbarium of the Bykovskoye cemetery in Zhukovsky (accessed July 19, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Petrow, Ivan Fyodorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петров, Иван Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian test pilot and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Shchipzovo, Yaroslavl Raion
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1994
Place of death Moscow