Valentin Mikhailovich Pashin (russian: Валентин Михайлович Пашин; 25 July 1937 – 15 December 2013) was a Russian naval engineer. Pashin was born in 1937, in the

Saratov Oblast Saratov Oblast (russian: Сара́товская о́бласть, ''Saratovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov. As of the 2010 Cen ...

of the

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. He studied at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, from which he graduated in 1960, and joined the Krylov Research Institute, a shipbuilding research

unitary enterprise A unitary enterprise (russian: унитарное предприятие) is a government-owned corporation in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Unitary enterprises are business entities that have no ownership rights to the assets that th ...

where he would spend his entire career, and lead the institute for over 22 years.''World Who's Who – Europa Biographical Reference'', Routledge.

Awards and honours

In 1985, Pashin was awarded the

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 ...

. He became a Corresponding Member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

in 1991, and a Full Member in 1995. In October 1994, Pashin was awarded the

Gold Star medal The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

as a Hero of the Russian Federation for "courage and heroism displayed during the performance of special operations".УКАЗ Президента РФ от 25.10.1994 N 2018

References

1937 births 2013 deaths Russian marine engineers Russian military engineers Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Heroes of the Russian Federation Recipients of the USSR State Prize {{Russia-engineer-stub