Nikolai Alexejewitsch Piljugin

Nikolai Alexeyevich Piljugin ( Russian Николай Алексеевич Пилюгин * 5 ^{. Jul} / 18th May 1908 ^greg. In Krasnoye Selo , † 2. August 1982 in Moscow) was a Soviet aerospace engineer with a focus on management and control systems.

Life

Piljugin attended the Moscow State Technical University . From 1934 he was employed at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute and later switched to the GIRD for research on recoil drives.

In the years 1944–1946 he examined the wreckage of the German V2 rocket . At the suggestion of Sergei Korolev , Piljugin became chief designer of autonomous control systems at the NII-885 in 1946 and a member of the council of chief designers. He headed the development of the steering and navigation systems for the R-1 and R-7 , which launched the Sputnik satellites from 1957 and launched the first cosmonaut into orbit in 1961 . He was also involved in the development of control systems for interplanetary stations, the Proton launcher, and the Buran 1.01 space shuttle .

Piljugin was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1966 .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961)
Lenin Prize (1957)
Stalin Prize (1967)
Order of Lenin (1956, 1958, 1968, 1975, 1978)

Web links

The 100th birth anniversary of Vladimir Barmin. RIA Novosti / Sputnik News , March 13, 2009
Nikolai Alexejewitsch Piljugin in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

^ Matthias Uhl : Stalin's V-2. The technology transfer of German radio controlled weapons technology to the USSR and the development of the Soviet missile industry from 1945 to 1959 . Dissertation with reproduction of many original documents. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-7637-6214-9 (304 pages).

personal data
SURNAME	Piljugin, Nikolai Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Пилюгин, Николай Алексеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet aerospace engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krasnoye Selo
DATE OF DEATH	2nd August 1982
Place of death	Moscow

[Uhl-1] Matthias Uhl : Stalin's V-2. The technology transfer of German radio controlled weapons technology to the USSR and the development of the Soviet missile industry from 1945 to 1959 . Dissertation with reproduction of many original documents. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-7637-6214-9 (304 pages).