Boris Yevseyevich Chertok | |
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Черток, Борис Евсеевич | |
 B. Y. Chertok (1912-2011) | |
| Born | (1912-03-01)1 March 1912 |
| Died | 14 December 2011(2011-12-14) (aged 99)[1] |
| Citizenship |  Russia |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Engineering (Controls) |
| Institutions | Soviet space program |
| Employer(s) | Energia Roscosmos Russian Space Forces |
| Awards | See awards and honors |
Boris Yevseyevich Chertok (Russian:Бори́с Евсе́евич Черто́к; 14 March [O.S. 1 March] 1912 – 14 December 2011) was a Russian engineer in the formerSoviet space program, mainly working incontrol systems, and later found employment inRoscosmos.
Major responsibility under his guidance was primarily based on computerizedcontrol system of theRussian missiles and rocketry system, and authored the four-volume bookRockets and People– the definitive source of information about the history of theSoviet space program.
From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of theKorolev design bureau, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992.[2]
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 along withSergei Korolev, whose deputy he became after OKB-1 spun off from the NII-88 in 1956.[3]
He was married to Yekaterina Semyonovna Golubkina. He was an atheist.[4]
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 and somewhat edited volumes of the series between 2005 and 2011. The series editor wasAsif Siddiqi, the author ofChallenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.[5] Chertok dedicated this series to his wife.[6]
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