Chief designers and engineers who built the rockets, engines and spacecraft of the Soviet space program, the teams behind Sputnik, Vostok, Soyuz and the Luna and Venera probes. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them a Soviet or Russian engineer or designer. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Sergei Korolev (Wikipedia)
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30 December 1906], 14 January 1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race.
Valentin Glushko (Wikipedia)
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Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валентин Петрович Глушко; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; 2 September 1908-10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
Boris Chertok (Wikipedia)
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Boris Yevseyevich Chertok (Russian: Бори́с Евсе́евич Черто́к; 14 March [O.S.
Mikhail Yangel (Wikipedia)
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Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (Russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911-25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.
Vladimir Chelomei (Wikipedia)
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey or Chelomei (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Челоме́й, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Микола́йович Челоме́й, Volodymyr Mykolayovych Chelomey; 30 June 1914-8 December 1984) was a Soviet engineer and designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.
Vasily Mishin - Wikipedia
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Vasily Pavlovich Mishin (Russian: Василий Павлович Мишин; 18 January 1917-10 October 2001) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet space program that took place under his management.
Aleksei Isaev (Wikipedia)
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Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev (also Isayev; Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Иса́ев; October 24, 1908, in Saint Petersburg, June 10, 1971, in Moscow) was a Soviet engineer in the Soviet space program, working on rocket combustion and propellant.
Georgy Babakin (Wikipedia)
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Georgy Nikolayevich Babakin (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Баба́кин; 13 November 1914-3 August 1971) was a Soviet engineer working in the space program.
Vladimir Barmin (Wikipedia)
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Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin (Russian: Владимир Павлович Бармин; 4 March [O.S.
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