Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (russian: Серге́й Па́влович Непобеди́мый; 13 September 1921 – 11 April 2014) was a Soviet designer of

rocket weapon In military terminology, a rocket is a self-propelled, generally unguided, weapon-system powered by a rocket engine. Though used primarily as medium- and long-range artillery systems, historically rockets have also seen considerable use as air-t ...

ry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the

Kolomna Kolomna ( rus, Колóмна, p=kɐˈlomnə) is a historical types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Moskva River, Moskva and Oka Rivers, (by rail) southeast of Moscow. Populati ...

Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in

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, he graduated from

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

in 1945 and was directed to the work at ''SKB-101'' (''KBM'', currently

FSUE 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 ...

KB Mashinostroyeniya KB Mashinostroyeniya or KBM for short (russian: КБ Машиностроения, КБМ, , Machine-Building Design Bureau) is a state defence enterprise, scientific and design R&D centre specialised in missile systems located in Kolomna, Moscow ...

») of

Boris Shavyrin Boris Ivanovich Shavyrin (also transliterated as Shavirin, Shavyirin; russian: Бори́с Ива́нович Шавы́рин) (1902, Yaroslavl – 1965) was a Soivet artillery and rocket engineer who developed the first air-augmented rocket, Gn ...

. He was the principal designer of: * anti-tank systems « Shmel» (1960), «

Malyutka The 9M14 Malyutka (russian: Малютка, links=no; "Little one", NATO reporting name: AT-3 Sagger) is a manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) wire-guided anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system developed in the Soviet Union. It was the first ...

» (1963) and later, the semi-automatic «Malyutka-P» (1969); * « Strela-2» (1968), «Strela-2M» (1970), « Strela-3» (1974), «Igla-1» (1981), « Igla» (1983); * supersonic anti-tank guided rocket system «Sturm» - «Sturm-B» for the helicopters (1976) and «Sturm-C» for the vehicles (1978); «

Ataka Ataka may refer to: * Attack (political party), Bulgarian nationalist political party *Ataka (play), a Japanese play used as a source for the film ''The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail'' *9M120 Ataka, a Russian-made anti-tank guided missile * Japa ...

» (seriously modernized « Sturm») and first double-channeled Khrizantema. * tactical rocket complexes TRK "Tochka" - with SBCh, OFBCh (1975), with KBCh (1977), with G (1979), with F-R (1982) and Tochka-U (1988), operative-tactical rocket complex OTRK "Oka" (1980). * active armored vehicle defence system KAZ "Arena" Besides, he initiated the design work on Iskander missiles, which was begun in December 1988. In 1989, after the

INF Treaty The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles; / ДРСМ� ...

that eliminated all Soviet OTRK "Oka" (though formally they were not mentioned in the treaty), Nepobedimy stepped down as Chief Designer and retired from KBM. From 1990 until his death he worked in the Moscow Central Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Hydraulics ad as the Chief of the scientific and technical center "REAGENT". He was the author of more than 350 scientific works, patents and one discovery. Sergey Nepobedimy died in Kolomna in April 2014 and was buried at the

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.На 93-м году скончался ракетный конструктор Сергей Непобедимый
ntv.ru, 11 April 2014.

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