Vasily Pavlovich Mishin

Vasily Pavlovich Mishin ( Russian Василий Павлович Мишин ; * January 5, ^July 18  / January 18, 1917 ^greg. , † October 10, 2001 ) was a Soviet scientist and rocket pioneer .

Mishin was one of the first Soviet rocket specialists who was allowed to visit the German V2 factories at the end of the Second World War . As deputy to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev , he worked on the first Soviet ICBMs and on the Sputnik and Vostok programs.

After Korolev's death in 1966, Mishin was given the management of the OKB-1 design office , which at that time was renamed ZKBEM (Central Design Office for Experimental Mechanical Engineering). However, he did not succeed in realizing the Soviet goal of getting a person to the moon with the N1 rocket . All four test flights in 1969, 1971 and 1972 failed. Mishin was replaced as head of the ZKBEM in 1974 by Valentin Petrowitsch Gluschko . The moon flight program was underfunded compared to the American mission.

Mishin received his doctorate in 1956, since 1957 he was a lecturer at Moscow's Lomonosov University , from 1959–1991 he was also head of the chair for the design and construction of flying machines at the MAI ( Moscow State Aviation Institute ). Since 1966 Mishin was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

For his work on the Soviet space program, he was awarded the " Hero of Socialist Labor " order.

Awards and honors

• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• three orders of Lenin (1956, 1961, 1967)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1956)
• Lenin Prize (1957)
• Korolyov Gold Medal (1967)
• Schuchow Gold Medal (1996)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wassili Pawlowitsch Mischin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the great Soviet encyclopedia (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KW Frolow: About the author , in: Wassili Pawlowitsch Mischin: Soviet moon projects , Klitzschen 1999, ISBN 3-933395-08-9 , p. 4f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Wassili Mischin - biography. Retrieved June 16, 2018 (Russian).