Yevgeny Nikolayevich Andreyev
Yevgeny Nikolajewitsch Andrejew ( Russian Евгений Николаевич Андреев ; born September 4, 1926 in Novosibirsk , † February 9, 2000 in Shcholkowo ) was a Russian test pilot and parachutist .
Life
Yevgeny Andreyev was drafted into the army in 1944 and came to the flying school in Armavir , where he completed training as a paratrooper . After graduating, he began his career as a test jumper. Andrejew tested a catapult seat at supersonic speed for the first time in the Soviet Union in 1954 , but suffered injuries to his foot when exiting, which resulted in a lifelong disability. Nevertheless, he was able to continue his career as a test jumper.
Andreyev became known in the USSR for his stratospheric jump on November 1, 1962, when he rose with the 70,000 m³ helium balloon "Volga" near the city of Wolsk and jumped from a height of 25,458 m. Since, unlike Joseph Kittinger, who jumped from over 30,000 m two years earlier, he did not use a control screen and only opened his parachute at a height of 958 m, he was the world record holder for the deepest free fall of a human being, at 24,500 m, until Felix Baumgartner found him on 14. Replaced October 2012 with 36,402.6 m.
His colleague Pyotr Dolgow , who jumped after him, was killed because he damaged his pressure suit when he got out of the balloon capsule . Both received the Hero of the Soviet Union award . In total, Andreyev set eight world records and completed over 4,000 jumps.
literature
- Heinz Machatschek: Personalities of Soviet aviation (3): N. N. Polikarpow and J. N. Andrejew . In: Flieger-Jahrbuch 85/86 . Transpress, 1984, ISSN 0428-5697 .
- G. Swishchev et al .: Avijazija: enziklopedija . Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1994, p. 61. (Russian)
Web links
- Russia News: Austrian aims for Soviet record (with photo of Andrejew) from October 11, 2012
- High Altitude World Record Jumps
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SURNAME | Andrejew, Evgeni Nikolajewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Евгений Николаевич Андреев |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian test pilot and parachutist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Novosibirsk |
DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2000 |
Place of death | Shcholkovo |