Sergei Petrovich Isotov

Sergei Petrovich Isotow ( Russian Сергей Петрович Изотов , scientific transliteration Sergej Petrovič Izotov ; born June 30, 1917 , † May 6, 1983 in Leningrad ) was a Russian aeronautical engineer.

Life

Isotov studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute until he took a position at Klimov in 1941 and developed primarily helicopter engines in the 1950s . He was the deputy and from 1960 successor to the chief designer Vladimir Klimov .

Among other things, he designed the first Soviet helicopter turbines Klimow TW2-117 for the Mi-8 and Klimow TW3-117 for the Mi-24 as well as the associated gearboxes; over 40,000 of these two engines were produced. Another successful model was the GTD-350 used in the Mi-2

For his life's work he received, among other things, the Hero of Socialist Labor award , the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the Soviet Union .

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 , p. 92 .
• G. Swishchev et al. a .: Avijazija: enziklopedija . In: Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija . Moscow 1994, p. 245 (Russian).

Web links

• Detailed biography (Russian)