Gromov, Gennady Nikolaevich

Gennady Nikolayevich Gromov (1937-2004) - scientist in the development of navigation systems, landing, guidance, air traffic control and special systems, general designer - responsible scientific and technical director of the Radius research and production association of the USSR Ministry of Radio Industry.

Gennady Nikolaevich Gromov
Date of Birth	November 26, 1937 ( 1937-11-26 )
Place of Birth	Leningrad
Date of death	June 15, 2004 ( 2004-06-15 ) (66 years old)
A place of death	St. Petersburg
Scientific field	physicist
Place of work	VNIIRA
Alma mater	LITMO , LSU
Academic degree	Doctor of Technical Sciences (1987)
Academic rank	Academician of the Academy of Transport of the Russian Federation
Known as	General Designer of the Vympel radio complex, navigation, landing, control of the trajectory of movement and ensuring the safety of the flight of the Buran orbital ship
Awards and prizes	Prize named after A. A. Raspletin (2000)

Born November 26, 1937 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Russian. From the family of a worker who died in 1941 at the front of the Great Patriotic War.

As a child, he survived the entire blockade of Leningrad in the besieged city. Since 1945 he studied at one of the schools of the city. In 1950 he entered, and in 1957 he graduated from the Kalinin Suvorov School with a gold medal.

In 1957 he entered, and in 1963 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. From 1962 until the end of his life he worked at the Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment (since 1967 - the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Radio Equipment, now the Open Joint-Stock Company “Order of the Red Banner of Labor All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Radio Equipment” (OJSC VNIIRA)) : technician, engineer, since 1965 - head of the laboratory, head of department, since 1976 - deputy chief engineer. On the job in 1967 he graduated from the evening department of Leningrad State University, in 1978 - Leningrad Engineering and Economics Institute.

Since 1975, he was a member of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) of the United States, and since 1983 - an authorized representative of VNIIRA in the European Organization for Aviation Electronic Equipment for Civil Aviation.

Since 1979 - General Director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Radio Equipment. He was engaged in research, development, implementation in mass production of a large number of radio systems, navigation systems, aircraft landing systems, air traffic control systems. Under his leadership, navigation and traffic control systems were created for military and civilian aircraft, spacecraft, special purpose for the needs of the Armed Forces (a number of complexes were adopted by the Soviet and Russian army). For example, developed under the guidance of G.N. Gromov’s aircraft landing system is equipped with the Russian heavy aircraft cruiser Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov. In 1986, VNIIRA under the leadership of G.N. Gromova developed the second-generation Spectrum automated air traffic control system, in which not only radar information was automatically processed, but also planned information in full, as well as the calculation of spatio-temporal trajectories and analysis of the air situation for conflict-free situations.

Along with applied design activity, in the work of G.N. Gromov occupied a large place and theoretical research in the field of analysis and synthesis of electronic complexes. He formulated and developed the theory of the differential geometric method for determining navigation parameters, converting and processing signals from various sensors on-board equipment and universal parametric programs for trajectory control of aircraft. Methods, algorithms and equations of linear non-stationary filtration and trajectory control of moving objects based on differential-geometric transformation operators using structural and information redundancy of guidance, navigation and landing systems signals have been created; methods for the synthesis of algorithms for trajectory control systems for flight and landing of an aircraft on a moving landing platform (for example, decks of aircraft carriers).

Since 1978, he headed the work (General Designer) on the creation of a radio engineering complex (Vympel Complex) for navigation, landing, control of the trajectory of flight and ensuring flight safety in the atmospheric traffic section of the Buran orbiter of the reusable Energia-Buran space system. This ambitious work was carried out for the first time in the USSR and was crowned with complete success: during the flight and landing of the Buran orbital ship on November 15, 1988, the Vympel missile system worked out perfectly and ensured the flight and landing of the orbital ship without failures.

For his great services in creating and testing the reusable space system “Energy - Buran” by Decree of the President of the USSR (“closed”) dated December 30, 1990, Gromov Gennady Nikolayevich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal “Hammer and Sickle”.

Since 1988 - General Director of VNIIRA, Responsible Scientific and Technical Director of Radius Research and Production Association. From 1994 to 2004 - General Director - General Designer of VNIIRA. In April 1999, VNIIRA was granted the status of the Federal Research and Production Center. Continuing his creative activities during the difficult period of the 90s and early 2000s, Gromov led the creation of a unified series of automated air traffic control systems of the new generation Sintez with the highest level of automation. This system is one of the most advanced in the world, fully satisfies the highest international standards and is currently equipped with more than 40 air traffic control centers in Russia and abroad.

Doctor of Technical Sciences (1987, Ph.D. since 1975). Professor. Member of the Academy of Transport of the Russian Federation.

The author of a fundamental monograph, over 150 scientific papers (including more than 20 published abroad), 45 inventions.

He lived in the hero city of St. Petersburg. Died June 15, 2004. He was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg.