Rolin, Lev Nikolaevich

Born September 15, 1931 in the village. Buda-Koshelevo Gomel region . Graduated from Dnepropetrovsk State University (1955), mechanical engineer.

A faculty was opened at Dnepropetrovsk State University, where they began to train specialists for the new missile industry. The faculty was called "physical and technical", and leading experts from the Yuzhne Design Bureau were invited to teach. They were excellent specialists in all missile systems.

- From an interview with L. N. Rolin to the correspondent of the newspaper Miassky Rabochiy (09.16.2006) ^[1] .

Since 1955 - in the cities of Zlatoust and Miass , in Special Design Bureau No. 385 (engineering design bureau, State Missile Center “Academician V. P. Makeev Design Bureau”): design engineer, deputy department head, department head - deputy chief designer (1962), deputy chief designer - plenipotentiary representative of the chief designer at the Zlatoust machine-building plant (1967), deputy chief designer - head of the serial production and operation of missile systems (1976), deputy general designer Ctora (1992-2012).

A participant and organizer of copyright and warranty services for missiles and systems in the manufacture and in the operating organizations of the Navy of the USSR and the Russian Navy , as well as work to extend the terms of their operation.

He carried out the technical management of state commissions during the modernization of six missile systems, during salvo firing and conversion launches.

Technical director and direct participant in experimental design work (1987-1991) for field confirmation of volley fire, carried out for the first time in domestic and world practice with a full ammunition of 16 missiles from underwater position ( Behemoth program : strategic missile carrier Novomoskovsk ; R-29RM missiles (U) ) ^[2] .

Technical director of the preparation and launch into orbit of artificial Earth satellites from a submarine from an underwater position, carried out for the first time in domestic and world practice ( strategic missile carrier Novomoskovsk ; German satellites en: Tubsat-N and Tubsat-N1 ; Russian launch vehicle "Calm" ) (1998).

In total, under the technical guidance of L. N. Rolin, 203 SLBM launches from various points of the World Ocean were made ^[1] .

The author of 5 inventions. The author of several scientific and technical articles on improving the reliability and safety of SLBMs .

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1983).

It is entered in the Enterprise Book of Honor ( GRTs named after academician V.P. Makeev ) ^{[3] [4] [5]} .

He put forward the idea and prepared a rationale for the organization of maintenance of SLBMs and marine missile systems in the operating organizations of the Navy of the USSR , on the basis of which a decree of the Government of the USSR on the organization of guarantee and author supervision of all cooperation between developers and manufacturers of strategic missile systems was issued (1976).

He substantiated and headed the direction of work to extend the life of SLBMs and marine missile systems. The implementation of this program resulted in multibillion-dollar savings and made it possible to maintain in constant combat readiness the naval component of the nuclear forces of both the USSR and Russia ^[5] .

- Lev Nikolayevich, you have an amazing professional and creative experience. Do you have disciples, followers?

- We brought up Shumkov - he came to us as a young specialist and reached the head of the Main Directorate for Combat Missile Technology. Vladimir Alekseevich Filin - worked as an engineer for me, and then became the chief engineer of the plant. Natalya Vladimirovna Pestereva is now a representative of our company in Moscow. Viktor Konstantinovich Prokofiev - head of the telemetry department of the State Regional Center. Our work is lively, both with documentation and with the material part - this allows specialists to grow very quickly and acquire high professionalism. Eremin, Kachev, Vasilevsky, Lisitsyn, Zheleznyak, department heads and leading designers - all of them are highly qualified specialists.

- From an interview with L. N. Rolin to the correspondent of the newspaper Miassky Rabochiy (09.16.2006) ^[1] .

• Order of the Badge of Honor (1961) - for the organization of mass production of the R-13 rocket
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1969) - for putting into service and organizing mass production of the R-21 rocket
• Order of Lenin (1978) - for the modernization of the R-29R rocket
• USSR State Prize ( 1983 ) - for researching the Arctic, for solving the problem of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles from the North Pole
• Order of the October Revolution (1989) - for the implementation of a range of work to extend the life of missiles and missile systems ^{[1] [6]}
• Medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation
• Medals of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia
• Anniversary medals of the Russian Navy
• Prize named after V.P. Makeev
• Honored Worker of the Enterprise ( GRC named after Academician V.P. Makeev )

Wife - Larisa Vitalevna Mikheeva.

Sons - Sergey, Mikhail, Nikolay, Dmitry ^[6] .

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• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // Miass: Encyclopedic Dictionary / ed. G.V. Gubko. Miass: 2003.
• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // Melua A.I. Rocket and Space Technology / Ed. V.V. Panova. M.-SPb .: 2003.
• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // Managers and leading experts of the State Rocket Center “Design Bureau named after Academician V. P. Makeev ": Biographical Dictionary / Under the general. ed. V. G. Degtyar. Miass, GRC "Design Bureau named. Academician V.P. Makeev ". 2004.S. 487-488.
• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // SKB-385, Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, State Regional Center "Design Bureau named after Academician V. P. Makeev ”/ Comp. R.N. Kanin, N.N. Tikhonov. Under the total. ed. V. G. Degtyar. M: State missile center "KB them. Academician V. P. Makeev "," Military Parade ". 2007. S. 227. ISBN 5-902975-10-7
• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // Managers and leading experts of the State Rocket Center “Design Bureau named after Academician V. P. Makeev ": Biographical Dictionary / Under the general. ed. V. G. Degtyar. Miass, GRC "Design Bureau named. Academician V.P. Makeev ". 2010.S. 182-184.

• Rolin Lev Nikolaevich // Free Encyclopedia of the Urals