Boris Chertok

Boris Chertok

Boris Chertok (middle) in 2005
Born Boris Yevseyevich Chertok
Борис Евсеевич Черток

(1912-03-01)1 March 1912
Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Died 14 December 2011(2011-12-14) (aged 99)[1]
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.[2]

Personal life

He was married to Yekaterina Golubkina and he died on the 14 of December 2011. He was an atheist.[3]

Rockets and People

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.

Translation into English

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.[4]

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