Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov (russian: Ива́н Григо́рьевич Бу́бнов; 18 January 1872 – 13 March 1919) was a
Russian
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marine engineer and designer of
submarine
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s for the
Imperial Russian Navy
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.
Bubnov was born in
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...
and graduated from the Marine Engineering College in
Kronstadt
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in 1891. He graduated from the Nikolayev Marine Academy in 1896. He initially joined the
Admiralty Shipyard
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in Saint Petersburg and worked as a constructor on the battleship
''Poltava''.
In 1900, he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Russian Admiralty
test tank and was involved in the design of the first Russian submarine, the
Delfin. In 1903, he became the Russian Admiralty's submarine designer and was responsible for the following submarine classes:
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''Kasatka'' class
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''Minoga''
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''Akula''
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''Morzh'' class
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''Bars'' class
In 1904, Bubnov became a lecturer at the
Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
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. He was commissioned into the Navy in 1907 and was head of the Admiralty test tank between 1908 and 1914.
Bubnov was promoted to Major General in the Corps of Naval Engineers in 1912. Between 1912 and 1917, he was a consultant to the
Baltic Works
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in Saint Petersburg and the
Nobel & Lessner shipyard
[A joint venture of the Nobel family and the Lessner arms company, established in 1912 to obtain construction contracts for submarines.] in
Reval
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.
Bubnov died of
typhoid
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in Petrograd in 1919.
References
*''This article is sourced by translation from the Russian Wikipedia''
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1872 births
1919 deaths
Military personnel from Nizhny Novgorod
People from Nizhegorodsky Uyezd
Russian marine engineers
Russian inventors
Submarine pioneers
Deaths from typhoid fever