Gleb Kotelnikov

Gleb Yevgenyevich Kotelnikov (Russian: Глеб Евгеньевич Котельников; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1872 – 22 November 1944) was a Russian and Soviet inventor of the knapsack parachute (first in the hard casing and then in the soft pack), and braking parachute.