Nikolai Alekhin (; 1913–1964) was a
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
rocket
A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely fr ...
designer. The lunar crater
Alekhin is named in his honour.
1913 births
1964 deaths
Soviet engineers
20th-century Russian engineers
Rocket scientists
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