Boris Chertok

Boris Yevseyevich Chertok
Черток, Борис Евсеевич
B. Y. Chertok (1912-2011)
Born(1912-03-01)1 March 1912
Łódź, Russian Empire
(Present day in Poland)
Died14 December 2011(2011-12-14) (aged 99)[1]
Moscow, Russia
Citizenship Russia
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
DisciplineEngineering (Controls)
InstitutionsSoviet space program
Employer(s)Energia
Roscosmos
Russian Space Forces
AwardsSee 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 former Soviet space program, mainly working in control systems, and later found employment in Roscosmos.

Major responsibility under his guidance was primarily based on computerized control system of the Russian missiles and rocketry system, and authored the 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 Korolev design bureau, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992.[2]

Personal life

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 with Sergei 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]

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.

  • Черток Б.Е. Ракеты и люди — М.: Машиностроение, 1999. (B. Chertok, Rockets and People) (in Russian)
  • Черток Б.Е. Ракеты и люди. Фили — Подлипки — Тюратам — М.: Машиностроение, 1999. (B. Chertok, Rockets and People. Fili — Podlipki — Tyuratam) (in Russian)
  • Черток Б.Е. Ракеты и люди. Горячие дни холодной войны — М.: Машиностроение, 1999. (B. Chertok, Rockets and People. Hot Days of the Cold War) (in Russian)
  • Черток Б.Е. Ракеты и люди. Лунная гонка — М.: Машиностроение, 1999. (B. Chertok, Rockets and People. The Moon Race) (in Russian)

Translation into English

NASA's History Division published four translated and somewhat edited volumes of the series between 2005 and 2011. The series editor was Asif Siddiqi, the author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.[5] Chertok dedicated this series to his wife.[6]

  • Boris Chertok (author). Rockets and People, Volume 1, 2005. ISBN 0-16-073239-5. Published by NASA.
  • Boris Chertok (author). Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry, 2006. ISBN 0-16-076672-9. Published by NASA.
  • Boris Chertok (author). Rockets and People, Volume 3: Hot Days of the Cold War, 2009. ISBN 978-0-16-081733-5. Published by NASA.
  • Boris Chertok (author). Rockets and People, Volume 4: The Moon Race, 2011. ISBN 9780160895593 Published by NASA.

Honours and awards

See also

References

  1. ^ "Academician Boris Chertok died in Moscow on his 100th year of life" (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Roscosmos Head Congratulated Academician Boris Chertok on his 99th Birthday". Roscosmos. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  3. ^ Chertok, Boris (2006). Siddiqui, Asif (ed.). Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ISBN 0-16-076672-9.
  4. ^ NASA.gov
  5. ^ "RSC Energia is an active participant of the opened today the XXXVIth Academic readings devoted to cosmonautics". S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  6. ^ Her patronymic Semyonovna is misspelled as Semyonova in the dedication, in all four volumes.

Literature

  • Vladimir Branets, Boris Evseyevich Chertok (to 95th birthday) (in Russian);
  • "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - A.I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 2001.[1];
  • A.I. Ostashev, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov - The Genius of the 20th Century — 2010 M. of Public Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training MGUL ISBN 978-5-8135-0510-2;
  • «A breakthrough in space» - Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik, M: LLC "Veles", 1994, - ISBN 5-87955-001-X;
  • "Look back and look ahead. Notes of a military engineer" - Rjazhsky A. A., 2004, SC. first, the publishing house of the "Heroes of the Fatherland" ISBN 5-91017-018-X;
  • "Rocket and space feat Baikonur" - Vladimir Порошков, the "Patriot" publishers 2007. ISBN 5-7030-0969-3;
  • "Unknown Baikonur" - edited by B. I. Posysaeva, M.: "globe", 2001. ISBN 5-8155-0051-8;
  • "People duty and honor" – A. A. Shmelev, the second book. M: Editorial Board "Moscow journal", 1998.
  • "Bank of the Universe" - edited by Boltenko A. C., Kyiv, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", ISBN 978-966-136-169-9
  • "S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity" - edited by C. A. Lopota, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014 ISBN 978-5-906674-04-3
  • "Space science city Korolev" - Author: Posamentir R. D. M: publisher SP Struchenevsky O. V., ISBN 978-5-905234-12-5
  • "History in faces and destiniesv" – Author: Posamentir R. D. M: publisher SP Struchenevsky O. V., ISBN 978-5-905234-17-0
  • "I look back and have no regrets. " - Author: Abramov, Anatoly Petrovich: publisher "New format" Barnaul, 2022. ISBN 978-5-00202-034-8