Vadim Borisovich Shavrov

Vadim Borisovich Shafrov ( Russian Вадим Борисович Шавров ., Scientific transliteration Vadim Borisovič Šavrov ; born October 26 ^{. Jul} / 7. November  1898 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 12. December 1976 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer. Other sources give October 26, 1889 as the birthday and February 26, 1977 as the date of death.

Life

Vadim Shavrov (to the left of Dmitri Grigorowitsch, who is sitting in the middle of the first row) as an OMOS employee in Leningrad in 1926

Shavrov went to school in Petrograd and left high school in 1916. From 1918 to 1920 he worked in railway construction and then studied at the Institute of Transportation. After graduating in 1924, he turned to aircraft construction . He came to the OMOS design office (OKB) of Dmitri Grigorowitsch and thus learned the basics of aircraft design. From 1929 he began to design his own models. The most famous construction is the Shavrow Sch-2 , an amphibious aircraft that he designed in 1930.

After the Second World War he went to the Moscow Aviation Institute .

From 1960, Schawrow also worked as an aviation historian and in 1969 published the standard work The History of Aircraft Construction in the USSR until 1938 . After his death in 1978, The History of Aircraft Design in the USSR 1938–1950 was published. A third part, The History of Aircraft Construction in the USSR 1950–1965 , appeared in 2002, but without using the name Shavrov.

In addition to his main job, Schawrow was also a committed and scientifically serious beetle collector . He wrote a chapter on the subfamily Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae for the corresponding volume of "The fauna of the USSR" ( Фауны СССР ), which, however, remained unpublished. His significant collection of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), which he put together over many decades, became better known among entomologists .

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . 2nd Edition. Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 , p. 236/237 .

Web links

• CV ( memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on smith-air.narod.ru (Russian)