Pyotr Grushin

Pyotr Dmitrievich Grushin (15 January 1906 to 29 November 1993) was a Soviet rocket scientist and aircraft designer, born in Volsk, and from 1966 an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, where he worked on the Stal-MAI aircraft and became chief designer of its design bureau, later designing the light bomber BB-MAI and the long-range fighter IDS, renamed Gr-1. He then served as chief engineer at Plant 21 and as vice chief designer to Lavochkin, and became chief developer of air defence systems at the design bureau now called Fakel in Khimki. He received the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1958 for the V-750 missile of the S-75 system and again in 1981 for the S-300, and won the Lenin Prize in 1963.