Sergei Nikititsch Khrushchev

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Sergei Nikititsch Khrushchev ( Russian Сергей Никитич Хрущёв , English transcription Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev ; born July 2, 1935 in Moscow , † June 18, 2020 in Cranston , Rhode Island ) was a Soviet-American aerospace engineer and political scientist .

Life

The son of the party leader of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev was a rocket engineer in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev received his doctorate from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . From 1958 to 1968 he was involved in the OKB-52 Vladimir Tschelomeis in the Soviet rocket and space program, especially in the development of guidance systems for cruise missiles, lunar vehicles and the Proton launcher . For this work he received the Lenin Prize and other Soviet awards. From 1968 to 1991 Khrushchev held senior positions at the Moscow Institute for Electronic Control Machines (INEUM).

From 1991 he was a political scientist at the American Brown University , where he first gave a guest lecture on the history of the Cold War before he decided to stay in the USA.

Sergei Khrushchev had lived in the United States with his third wife, Valentina (née Golenko) since 1991, and in 1999 they both became American citizens. His eldest son Nikita Sergejewitsch (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв , 1959–2007) from his first marriage to Galina Schumowa (1934–2020) continued to live in Russia, worked as a journalist and was critical of this step by his father.

Khrushchev taught at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, he was the author of books, including works about his father. He was a member of the jury for the international human rights award Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Khrushchev on Khrushchev - An inside account of the man and his era, by his son, Sergei Khrushchev , Verlag Little, Brown and Company, 1990, ISBN 0-316-49194-2 .
  • Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower , Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01927-1 .
  • Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945–1964 , Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-271-02861-0 .
  • Birth of a superpower. A book about my father , Elbe-Dnjepr-Verlag, Klitzschen 2003, ISBN 3-933395-38-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergei Khrushchev is dead: son of ex-Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev died in the USA. In: rnd.de . Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Leonid Mletschin (Леонид Михайлович Млечин): Династии, кланы и семьи в России. От Ленина до Путина . Zentrpoligraph, Moscow 2018, ISBN 978-5-227-08208-4 (Russian, limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Sergei Khrushchev. Watson Institute at Brown University, archived from the original on April 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 (English, Khrushchev's homepage at the Watson Institute).
  4. ↑ Nikita Khrushchev is dead. In: Aktuell.ru . February 23, 2007, accessed June 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Naturalized: Khrushchev is now American. In: Spiegel Online . July 13, 1999, accessed June 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b CV Khrushchev. (pdf; 58 kB) Watson Institute at Brown University, December 15, 2010, archived from the original on April 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 (English, Khrushchev's résumé).
personal data
SURNAME Khrushchev, Sergei Nikititsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хрущёв, Сергей Никитич (Russian); Khrushchev, Sergei Nikitich (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American aerospace engineer and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2020
Place of death Cranston , Rhode Island