Belyaev, Nikolai Nikolaevich

Nikolai Nikolaevich Belyaev (1911-1975) - Soviet weapon optics designer, chief engineer of the Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry. He was awarded six orders of the Red Banner of Labor (04/20/1956; 12/21/1957; 09/09/1961; 07/28/1966; 10/25/1971; 02/17/1975). Also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1944).

In the 1930-1940s. Designer of the Design Bureau of the Moscow Geodesy Plant (since 1941 in evacuation in Sverdlovsk). The leading designer of aerial cameras for daytime AFA and nighttime photography is NAFA with lenses that allow photographing objects from heights up to 5000 m. They were adopted at the beginning of the war.

Together with the designer V. A. Beshenov, he created new wide-format AFAs that made it possible to increase the capture of the photographed area per 1 airplane approach over the target. [ [1] ]

Since 1944, head of the special design bureau for aerial cameras (SPKB-1) at factory No. 393 NKV .

In 1951-1954, the head of the Central Design Bureau-393 (Central Design Bureau of the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant), supervised the work on creating a tank optical sight-rangefinder with the elimination of the shortcomings of the stereoscopic rangefinder TKD-09.

Since 1954, the head of the 2nd GU MOP, optics. Subsequently - the chief engineer of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.