Nikolai Alekseevich Pilyugin (russian: Никола́й Алексее́вич Пилю́гин; ,

Krasnoye Selo Krasnoye Selo (russian: Кра́сное Село́, lit. ''Red village''). Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-Пресс", 2002 is a munic ...

- 2 August 1982) was

Soviet 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, ...

chief designer of rocket guidance systems. He was a designer of control systems for boosters and spacecraft. He participated in design of the first ICBM "R-7" and Soviet space shuttle Buran. A graduate of the Baumann higher technical school ( MVTU), Pilyugin worked at the Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics (

TsAGI The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, russian: Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ, Tsentral'nyy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, ...

) starting in 1934, then joined

RNII Reactive Scientific Research Institute (commonly known by the joint initialism RNII; russian: Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, Reaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut) was one of the ...

the Institute of Jet Propulsion. In 1945, he joined

Boris Chertok Boris Yevseyevich Chertok (russian: link=no, Бори́с Евсе́евич Черто́к; – 14 December 2011) was a Russian electrical engineer and the control systems designer in the Soviet Union's space program, and later found employm ...

at the RABE institute in Germany, studying the design of the V-2 and other Nazi weaponry. In 1946, he along with Mikhail Ryazansky headed the newly formed NII-885. Pilyugin developed gyroscopic guidance control systems and flight control computers for Soviet rockets beginning with the R-1 (a copy of the V-2).

Awards

* Twice

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1956, 1961) * Lenin Prize (1957) *

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

(1967) *

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

(1956, 1958, 1968, 1975, 1978) *

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (russian: Орден Октябрьской Революции, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on October 31, 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferr ...

(1971) * Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 7th - 10th convocations.

* J. K. Golovanov, M., "Korolev: Facts and myths", Nauka, 1994, ;
"Rockets and people"
– B. E. Chertok, M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. ; * "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - A.I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 200

* "Bank of the Universe" - edited by Boltenko A. C.,

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, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", * A.I. Ostashev, ''Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov - The Genius of the 20th Century'' — 2010 M. of Public Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training MGUL .
Nikolay Pilyugin
/Family history * "S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity" - edited by C. A. Lopota, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pilugin, Nikolay 1908 births 1982 deaths People from Krasnoye Selo Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Heroes of Socialist Labour Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the USSR State Prize Soviet aerospace engineers Soviet inventors Soviet space program personnel Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute employees

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