Alexei Mikhailovich Cheryomuchin
Alexei Mikhailovich Tscherjomuchin ( Russian Алексей Михайлович Черёмухин ; born May 18 . Jul / the 30th May 1895 greg. In Moscow ; † 19th August 1958 in Palanga , Lithuanian SSR ) was a Soviet aircraft designer.
Life
Cheryomuchin was trained as a pilot at the Aviation School in Katschinsk during the First World War and was transferred to the front, where he was awarded the St. George's Cross for his services . After the October Revolution and the resulting end of the war, in 1918 he became one of the first employees of the Aerohydrodynamic Institute (ZAGI) founded in the same year . Cheryomuchin was involved in the first aircraft designs of the young Soviet republic. He was a member of the Commission for Heavy Aircraft (KOMTA), which designed an aircraft of the same name in the early 1920s and was involved in the construction of the first Soviet passenger aircraft, the AK-1 . In the same period he began studying at the Technical University in Moscow and graduated in 1923.
From 1927 he began to deal with the construction of helicopters together with Nikolai Kamow and Nikolai Skrschinski . In 1930, in collaboration with Boris Jurjew , he finally succeeded in building the first Soviet helicopter, the ZAGI 1-EA , which he also tested himself. On August 14, 1932, Cheryomukhin rose to the record height of 600 meters with the 1-EA. Also in 1930, the OOK special department for the development of gyrocopes was founded within ZAGI , to which Cheryomuchin switched. There he, Iwan Bratuchin and W. A. Kuznetsov designed the ZAGI 2-EA in 1931 . In 1934 Cheryomuchin became a professor and in 1937 a doctorate in technical sciences.
In 1938, Cheryomuchin moved to Andrei Tupolev's department within ZAGI , where he worked until the end of his career and was appointed deputy general designer in 1953. He was the author of several scientific papers, some of which were published in 1969 as a collective edition. In the course of his career, Cheryomuchin received, along with other medals, twice the State Prize (1949 and 1952), three times the Lenin Order and once the Lenin Prize (1957)
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation. Elbe – Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir B. Kazakov: perpendicular to the sky . In: Fliegerkalender der DDR 1989. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-327-00520-6 . P. 43
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cheryomuchin, Alexei Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Черёмухин, Алексей Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet aircraft designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 1958 |
| Place of death | Palanga |