Boris Aleksandrovich Bobylev ( August 19, 1924 - April 3, 1993 ) - the organizer of the system of ground-based launch complexes of intercontinental ballistic missiles for strategic missile forces of the USSR . Thanks to him, in 1965-1968, a network of 8K75 (P-9A) intercontinental ballistic missile silo missile positions put into combat duty was created. He was one of the founders of the Plesetsk cosmodrome , a leading test pilot of rockets and space-rocket complexes OKB-1. He was a student and associate of Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov . Colonel (1962).
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| Date of Birth | August 19, 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | city Nikolaevsk-on-Amur | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | April 3, 1993 (68 years old) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||
| Type of army | Strategic Rocket Forces | ||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1942 - 1978 | ||||||||||||
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| Battles / wars | World War II Soviet-Japanese war | ||||||||||||
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Biography
Boris Alexandrovich Bobylev was born on August 19, 1924 in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur [1] .
His father is paramedic Alexander Vasilyevich Bobylev (1896-1970).
Mother - midwife Tatyana Mikhailovna Parunova (1900-1978).
In 1942 he was drafted into the army. In 1944 he graduated from the Far Eastern Artillery School. He participated in the war with Japan . In 1955 he graduated from the Military Artillery Engineering Academy. F.E. Dzerzhinsky .
At the end of the academy, Boris Aleksandrovich was sent to serve at the Baikonur training ground. From 1955 to 1964 he held the following positions: senior officer of the testing department, head of the group, head of department, deputy head of department. Boris Aleksandrovich Bobylev was the first head of the department for testing the R-7 rocket hull; he directs the process of assembling a package of rocket blocks and laying it on the installer. In the Installation and Testing Complex of Site 2, under the guidance of B. A. Bobylev, the most rational methodology for working with blocks and packages was developed, which made it possible to abandon a number of units of design development, which made it possible to significantly optimize the structure of the launch department.
Boris Alexandrovich Bobylev takes an active part in the preparation and provision of launches of Sputnik-1 - the first artificial Earth satellite (October 4, 1957) [2] , Sputnik-2 - the world's first biological Earth satellite (November 3, 1957), Moon-1 ( January 2, 1959), Venus-1 (February 12, 1961) and a number of other launches of earth satellites and automatic interplanetary stations. B. A. Bobylev is one of the active leading participants in the launch of the first spacecraft that lifted a man into low Earth orbit. He was the deputy chief of the test team (head of the 11th launch vehicle division) in combat crew on the launch of the Vostok satellite ship with Yu. A. Gagarin. Soon after, Bobylev was appointed deputy chief of the 1st Directorate. He led the tests of the R-9 rocket at the complexes of site 70 and site 75.
In 1964-1965 He was the deputy head of the Plesetsk training ground for experimental and research work. From 1965 to 1968 he was the deputy chief engineer of the Strategic Missile Forces, was the head of the brigades for staging combat positions of mine positions of 8K75 (R-9A) intercontinental ballistic missiles. From 1965 to 1978 he was deputy chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Strategic Missile Forces.
Dismissed from the Armed Forces due to illness in 1978.
He died in 1993. He was buried at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow .
Rewards
- medal "For the victory over Japan" (1946)
- Medal for Military Merit (1951)
- Order of the Red Star (1955)
- Order of the Badge of Honor (1957)
- Order of Lenin (1961)
- medal "The world's first manned space flight April 12, 1961 Yu. A. Gagarin" (1962)
- two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1968, 1974)
- Medal For Military Valor (1970)
- Mongolia medal "30 years of victory over Japan" (1975)
- Medal “25 years of the space age” of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia (USSR) (1983)
- Medal of the USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonautics Federation of Russia (USSR) (1984)
- Order of the Patriotic War , 2nd degree (1985)
- Medal "25 years of manned space flight" of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia (USSR) (1986)
- Academician S.P. Korolev Medal of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia (USSR) (1987)
Notes
- ↑ Military Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; Pres ed. com A. E. Serdyukov. - M.: Military Publishing, 2007 .-- 831 p. : 46 l silt
- ↑ Name index of participants in the preparation and launch of the world's first artificial Earth satellite . History of the Russian Soviet Cosmonautics (May 17, 1997). Date of treatment August 27, 2013. Archived on September 15, 2013.
Links
- Bobylev Boris Alexandrovich (Unavailable link) . Encyclopedia Ministry of Defense of Russia. Date of treatment August 27, 2013. Archived on September 15, 2013.
- Bondarev Yu. F. Memoirs of the service in Baikonur . Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Date of treatment August 27, 2013. Archived on September 15, 2013.