Alperovich, Karl Samuilovich

Born on January 21, 1922 in Artyomovsk (formerly Bakhmut), where his father, Samuil Toevich Alperovich (1883, Kurenets -1953), was sent by the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) To the post of editor of the Donbass magazine "Knowledge". The name Karl is in honor of Marx.

Since 1925, the family lived in Moscow, where Karl graduated from school number 235. As an excellent student, he was admitted to the Electrophysical Department at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute without examinations and chose the specialty “Automation and Telemechanics”.

Since the end of 1944, after defending his diploma, he worked at the Central Research Institute of Radar ( TsNII-108 ) in the laboratory of anti-aircraft artillery fire control radars (SONs). The group headed by him created an experimental radar based on SCR-584 and in January 1948 successfully tested it at a training ground in Donguz (near Orenburg ). Since the fall of 1948 - head of the laboratory.

In October 1950, he was transferred to KB-1 . He participated in the development of the Berkut air defense system, in particular, central anti-aircraft missile guidance radar (CRN). Since 1953, deputy chief designer of the "Golden Eagle" ( "S-25 system" ).

Member of the development of the ZURO S-75 system . During the war in Vietnam, she destroyed from 2 to 4 thousand aircraft.

Since 1959 he was engaged in the S-200 and S-300 anti-aircraft systems, designed for long-range shooting. The tests of the first successfully passed in 1966, the second - in 1976.

In 1988, he left the leading position of the deputy chief designer, became the chief research assistant. Since 1997 - scientific consultant at Almaz OJSC.

In 1957 he defended his thesis, in 1969 - his doctorate. Professor, in 1986-1996 he taught a radiolocation course at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, OJSC Almaz.

Family

• Wife - Spivak Irina Iosifovna (b. 1921) - candidate of technical sciences, senior researcher.
  • Daughter - Irina Karlovna (born 1962) - candidate of biological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Immunology.

Author of flashback books:

• "Missiles around Moscow" (1995),
• “So a new weapon was born” (1998, 2014),
• “Years of work on the air defense system of Moscow, 1950-1955 (Notes of an engineer)” (2003, 2006),
• “From Birth to KB-1 (Memories)” (2014).

• 1958 Lenin Prize for the creation of the S-75 system.
• USSR State Prize
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Radio Operator of the USSR.
• He was awarded orders and medals:
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labor ,
  • medal " For the defense of Moscow "
  • other medals.

• Russian radar. Biographical Encyclopedia. - M., Metropolitan Encyclopedia, 2011, 768 pp., Ill.

• ALPEROVICH Karl Samuilovich
• About the people who created the anti-aircraft "Golden Eagle"