Yevgeny Ilyich Ostashev

Yevgeny Ilyich Ostaschew ( Russian Евгений Ильич Осташев * 22. March 1924 in Maloye Vasilyevo ; † 24. October 1960 in Baikonur ) was a Russian artillery - officer and rocket engineers .

Life

As a teenager, Yevgeny Ostaschew and his younger brother Arkady 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 . As a student he convinced Arkadi of the top position in the world in German science and technology and taught him German. In 1941 Arkady Ostaschew finished the 9th grade of middle school No. 32 in Elektrougli .

In 1941, Yevgeny Ostashev joined the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) . However, he declined after the start of the German-Soviet war , the evacuation together with the Institute of Alma-Ata and worked as a lathe operator in the Moscow factories. In autumn 1942 he was drafted into the army and trained at the Leningrad Artillery School. After six months he was sent to the Stalingrad Front as a sub-lieutenant and commanded a message platoon for a grenade launcher company . He then led a grenade launcher platoon in the 1st Ukrainian Front under Vasily Ivanovich Tschuikow and was involved in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsk Operation and the fighting on the Dnestr and then in the 1st Belarusian Front in the fighting near Vitebsk . In the battle for Berlin he led a grenade launcher company. After the end of the war he served in the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany .

In 1949 Ostashev began to study rocket technology at the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy in Moscow , which he graduated with honors in autumn 1955. And find out further studies , he refused and was in Baikonur cosmodrome Deputy head of the department that the complex tests of intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 carried out. After an industrial internship and a stay at the Kapustin Yar missile test site , he headed the control systems department in Baikonur . Starting with the Sputnik-1 launch, he was the head of the rocket launch processes. From March 1960 he directed all tests and operations of the liquid rocket engines of the rockets R-7, R-7A and R-9 .

Ostaschew died on October 24, 1960 in Baikonur during the catastrophic launch of the R-16 rocket ( Nedelin catastrophe ). He found his grave in the communal grave of the victims of the explosion in the Soldiers' Park in the city of Baikonur. The disaster was kept secret, and only the death of the chief artillery marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin "in a plane crash " was announced. It was not until 1995 that the circumstances of the disaster were made available to the public.

A street in Baikonur was named after Ostaschew. In 2001 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Baikonur. In Elektrougli, at the birthplace of the Ostaschew brothers, there is a memorial plaque . Ostashev is remembered in the Museum of Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Union in Vlasikha .

Honors

• Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd class
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "For Merit in Combat"
• Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
• Medal "For the capture of Berlin"
• Medal "Victory over Germany"
• Lenin Prize for the Sputnik 1 flight
• Order of bravery posthumously
• Other medals.

literature

• JK Golowanow: Korolev: Facts and Myths . Nauka, Moscow 1994, ISBN 5-02-000822-2 (Russian).
• BJ Tschertok : "Rockets and People" . Maschinostrojenije, Moscow 1999, ISBN 5-217-02942-0 (Russian)
• NP Kamanin : "Hidden Cosmos" . Inforteks-IF, Moscow 1995 (Russian)
• James Harford: Korolev - How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America on the Moon. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1997, pp. 119-120, ISBN 0-471-32721-2
• Konstantin Wassiljewitsch Gerchik: "Departure into space" - Moscow 1994. - ISBN 5-87955-001-X (Russian)
• WW Lebedev «To hold out on the way to space» - Moscow: Publishing house «ИТРК», 2016. - ISBN 978-5-88010-400-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yevgeny Ilyich Ostaschew (Russian, accessed May 1, 2016).
2. ^ The Ostaschew brothers from Elektrougli (Russian, accessed April 30, 2016).
3. ^ Russian Ministry of Defense: Ostaschew Jewgeni Iljitsch (Russian, accessed May 1, 2016).
4. ↑ Michail Ostaschew: Ostaschew Jewgeni Iljitsch (Russian, accessed on May 1, 2016).
5. ↑ The view to the moon. The Ostaschew Brothers (Russian, accessed April 28, 2016).
6. ↑ A. Zheleznyakov: The Baikonur Tragedy (Russian, accessed on May 1, 2016).
7. ^ Yevgeny Ostashev's grave (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).
8. ↑ Grave memorial for the dead in the catastrophe on October 24, 1960 (Russian, accessed May 1, 2016).
9. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Baikonur (Russian, accessed May 1, 2016).
10. ↑ Birthplace of the Ostaschew brothers (Russian, accessed April 29, 2016).