Konstantin Bushuyev

Konstantin Davydovich Bushuyev (Russian: Константин Давыдович Бушуев; 23 May 1914 – 26 October 1978) was a Soviet engineer and director of the Apollo–Soyuz for the Soviet Union.[1]

Konstantin Bushuyev
Born
Konstantin Davydovich Bushuyev

(1914-05-23)23 May 1914
Died26 October 1978(1978-10-26) (aged 64)
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour
Allan D. Emil Memorial Award (1978)
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Early life and education

Bushuyev was born on 23 May 1914 in the village of Cherten,[1] in the district of Mosaik, Kaluga Oblast, in what was then the Russian Empire.[2] He was the son of rural teachers. Bushuyev graduated in 1930 from an industrial college in Pesochnya (later known as Kirov). He was then a foreman and later a deputy shop manager at the P.L.Voikov Moscow Iron Foundry[1] before earning an admission to the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1936. Bushuyev graduated with a degree in aircraft mechanical engineering in 1941.[1][2]

Career

It is presumed he joined the Soviet rocketry program shortly after the end of WWII; his area of expertise appears to have been applied dynamics. By 1948 he was head of a rocketry design office.[2] Along with other members of Sergei Korolev’s team, Bushuyev was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1951 "for the development of instrumentation for temperature measurement for the R-1 missile flight tests."[1] The launch of Sputnik earned Bushuyev the Hero of Socialist Labour, the highest civilian award in the Soviet Union. He earned a Lenin Prize in 1960.[2]

References

  1. "The Elmer A. Sperry Award" (PDF). Sperryaward.org. 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. "Konstantin D.Bushuyev". The New York Times. 25 May 1972. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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