Shumovsky, Stanislav Antonovich

Born in 1902 ^[1] in a Polish family in Ukraine, spent his childhood and youth in Transcaucasia (the city of Shemakhy ). The brother of the orientalist T. A. Shumovsky .

In 1919, at the age of 17, he volunteered for the Red Army , changed his middle name "Adamovich" to "Antonovich", and his nationality "Pole" - to "Ukrainian." In 1920 he joined the party. After the Civil War, he continued to serve in the Red Army, rising to the rank of general.

At the end of the 20s. on a trip, the Central Committee was sent to study at the aeromechanical faculty of MVTU, then at MAI. In 1931, as part of a group of students - "partyachny" was sent to study in the United States .

1931-1935 - student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston , upon graduation, a master's degree in aeronautics. After graduation, he was left to work in the USA as the authorized representative of the Head of the Aviation Industry of NARKOMTYAZHPROM. In the summer of 1935 he organized a long trip of A.N. Tupolev to US aviation firms - with the signing of major contracts. He was connected by friendly relations with the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs V.M. Molotov and accompanied his wife Molotov, who arrived for treatment in the United States.

In 1939 he was transferred to Moscow to TsAGI , where he created and headed the Bureau of New Technology (BNT), which studied foreign experience in aircraft construction .

1941-1944 - work in the United States to obtain aircraft and equipment for Lendliz .

1944-1953 - TsAGI , then teaching at the Department of Aerodynamics and Design of MATI Aircraft.

Since 1954 - Vice-rector for scientific and educational work of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology .

In 1957, Mr .. included in the delegation of the USSR at the General Session of UNESCO , and then his candidacy was proposed for the post of deputy director of UNESCO. The candidacy was withdrawn after the withdrawal from the United States: a large article appeared in Look magazine, covering the activities of Stanislav Shumovsky, "going beyond his official duties." However, he began working at UNESCO as the head of the committee of scientific and technical assistance to developing countries, and until the last days he was a member of the USSR Commission for UNESCO.

Since the beginning of the 60s. he became a member of the governing council of the International Institute for Educational Planning.

In 1974-1975 took part in the development of the Charter of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe . For about two years he worked in Geneva in a group of international experts in the field of humanitarian and scientific-technical cooperation.

The portrait of S. A. Shumovsky is placed in the “Gallery of Glory” of the Memorial Museum of the Foreign Intelligence Service in Yasenevo .

• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (09.16.1945)
• medals

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