Boris Chertok
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Boris Chertok (middle) in 2005
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| Born |
Boris Yevseyevich Chertok Борис Евсеевич Черток 1 March 1912 Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland) |
| Died | 14 December 2011 (aged 99) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Soviet and Russian rocket scientist and engineer |
| Known for | Deputy Chief Designer of Soviet Space Program |
Boris Evseyevich Chertok (Russian: Бори́с Евсе́евич Черто́к; 1 March 1912 – 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program.
From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992.
Born in Łódź (modern Poland), his family moved to Moscow when he was aged 3. Starting from 1930, he worked as an electrician in a metropolitan suburb. Since 1934, he was already designing military aircraft in Bolkhovitinov design bureau. In 1946, he entered the rocket-pioneering NII-88 as a head of control systems department, working alongside with Sergei Korolev, whose deputy he became after OKB-1 spun off from the NII-88 in 1956.
He was married to Yekaterina Semyonovna Golubkina. By views, he was an atheist.
Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999.
NASA's History Division published four translated volumes of the series between 2005 and 2011. The series editor is Asif Siddiqi, the author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.
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