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Valentin Glushko
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Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)
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Valentin Petrovich Glushko was a Soviet aerospace engineer, politician, and writer born in Odesa in 1908. He specialized in rocket science and held positions as a director at NPO Energomash, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Museum of Space and Missile Technology in Saint Petersburg, and the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. He was educated at Odesa National Music Academy and Saint Petersburg State University.
Glushko was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He participated in the 21st and 22nd Congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His notable works include *Kosmonavtika*, *Termicheskie konstanty veshchestv*, and *Soviet cosmonautics*. He received the USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, and Order of the Red Banner of Labour. He died of natural causes due to atherosclerosis in Moscow in 1989 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Valentin Glushko is referenced by 119 other articles, and connects out to S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Kosmos and Odesa.
Vinony files it under 1908 births, 1989 deaths and 20th-century Russian scientists.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Kosmonavtika
- Termicheskie konstanty veshchestv
- Soviet cosmonautics
- Termodinamicheskie svoĭstva individualʹnykh veshchestv
- Termodinamicheskie i teplofizicheskie svoĭstva produktov sgoranii︠a︡
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Key facts
- Born
- 2 September 1908 ( 1908-09-02 ) , Odessa , Russian Empire , (now Ukraine )
- Died
- 10 January 1989 (1989-01-10) (aged 80), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery , Moscow
- Education
- Leningrad State University
- Discipline
- Engineering ( Computer )
- Institutions
- Soviet space program
- Significant design
- Almaz
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Described at
Biografia de Valentín Glushkó
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Odesa
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Participant in
- 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Image
- Stamp of Ukraine s506 1.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Valentin Glushko
- date of birth
- 1908-08-20
- date of death
- 1989-01-10
- name in native language
- Валентин Петрович Глушко
- cause of death
- atherosclerosis
- described at URL
- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/g/gluchko.htm
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валентин Петрович Глушко; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
Glushko served as a main designer of rocket engines in the Soviet program during the heights of the Space Race between United States and the Soviet Union, and was the proponent of cybernetics within the space program.
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