Alexander Emanuelovich Sterlin ( 1899 - 1982 ) - Soviet aircraft designer , specialist in the field of aerodynamics. Laureate of the Lenin Prize.
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| Scientific field | aerodynamics | |||||||||
| Place of work | OKB Tupolev | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Academy of the Air Force named after N.E. Zhukovsky | |||||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Technical Sciences | |||||||||
| supervisor | A. N. Tupolev | |||||||||
| Known as | aircraft designer | |||||||||
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Biography
Born in 1899 in Konotop (now Sumy region , Ukraine ). He graduated from the Academy of the Air Force named after N. E. Zhukovsky (1928).
In the years 1919-1923, a participant in the Civil War, military commissar of several regiments. In 1923 - 1925 he was the head of the political department of the 23rd Kharkov Division .
Since 1928 he worked in the aerodynamic department of TsAGI : engineer, senior engineer, section head, deputy. section head, deputy department head, since 1934 the head of the experimental aerodynamic department. He took part in the design of the aircraft TB-3 , ANT-9 , ANT-14 , ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" , SB , ANT-25 "Range Record" , TB-7 , ANT-44 .
In 1938 he was arrested. He worked at TsKB-29 of the NKVD on the planes “100” (Pe-2) and “103” (Tu-2). In 1941, released.
In 1938-1971, A. Tupolev ’s assistant in aerodynamic mechanics of aircraft starting from Tu-2 , was the head of the aerodynamics department of Tupolev Design Bureau.
Since 1971, retired, continued to work as a consultant to OKB.
Doctor of Technical Sciences (1947, on the totality of scientific work in aerodynamics).
Awards and Prizes
- two orders of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (8.8.1947)
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Red Star
- medals
- Lenin Prize - for participating in the creation of the first domestic jet passenger aircraft Tu-104 .
- Stalin Prize of the first degree (1952) - for work in aircraft manufacturing