Tooth, Prokofy Filippovich

Prokofy Filippovich Zubets ( July 21, 1915 - January 8, 1996 , Moscow ) - Russian design scientist, specialist in aircraft turbojet engines. Winner of the Lenin Prize (1957), State Prize of the USSR (1978), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1966).

Prokofy Filippovich Tooth
Date of Birth	July 21, 1915 ( 1915-07-21 )
Place of Birth
Date of death	January 8, 1996 ( 1996-01-08 ) (80 years)
Place of death	Moscow
Scientific field	specialist in aircraft turbojet engines
Alma mater
Awards and prizes

Born in the village of Romodan, Poltava Province, in the family of a railroad worker. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1939). He worked in the design group of the MAI. In 1941–1943, he was the leading designer at the Moscow and Kuibyshev aircraft plants.

In 1943-1953 leading designer, head of the group of compressors, deputy. Chief Designer in the Aviation Design Bureau A. A. Mikulin at the Engine-Building Plant No. 300 (Moscow).

Since May 1953 - in Kazan. From 1954 to 1983, the chief designer of the Kazan Aviation Engine Plant. He led the development of a modification of the turbojet engine RD-3M-500 for the Tu-104 . Part-time was a professor in the department of special engines of the Kazan Aviation Institute , a member of the specialized council of the university for thesis defense

From 1983 he worked in Moscow: a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Aviation Systems, a professor at MAI

Doctor of Technical Sciences (1968), Professor (1972).

In 2007, the government of Tatarstan decided to place a plaque in honor of PF Zubts on the building of Kazan’s Soyuz experimental design bureau ^[1] .