Konstantin Dmitrievich Godunov ( 1892 - 1965 ) - Soviet aeronaut, designer of balloons, participant of the flight on the stratostat " USSR-1 ".
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| Date of Birth | June 2 (14), 1892 | ||
| Place of Birth | Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | May 25, 1965 (72 years) | ||
| Place of death | Moscow | ||
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR | ||
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Biography
Born on June 2 ( June 14 on the new style) in 1892 .
In 1911-1914 he studied at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute.
Member of the First World War . From 1918 he served in the aeronautic units of the Red Army.
He graduated from the Academy of Air Fleet named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky ( 1925 ). He worked at the Higher Military Aeronautical School of the Air Force (in Leningrad), the N.A. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and the Air Force Research Institute.
In 1932–1933 he headed the rubber industry OKB for the construction of the USSR-1 stratostat (designer of the stratostat shell). On September 30, 1933, he flew on this stratostatus together with G. A. Prokofiev and E. K. Birnbaum (19 km high reached). At the time of the flight he worked as head of the design office of the Scientific-Experimental Institute of the Rubber Industry.
Developed a number of tethered and free balloons and flew them. Balloon barrage design Godunov used in the air defense during World War II .
He died on May 25, 1965 . He was buried at the Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow.
Son - Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov (born 1929 ), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences . [one]
Daughter - Elena Konstantinovna Godunova (born 1932), associate professor of the Mathematical Physics Department of the Institute of Physics, Technology and Information Systems, Moscow State Pedagogical University (formerly MGPI named after Lenin), author of programs, educational development and manuals on mathematical analysis, graph theory.
Awards
- He was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor, as well as medals.
See also
- " Osoaviakhim-1 "