Died 1984-12-08.
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey or Chelomei was a Soviet engineer and designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union. He invented the first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for developing the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and the ICBM program of the Soviet Union such as the UR-100, UR-200, UR-500 and UR-700.
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Born 30 June 1914 · Died 8 December 1984 · Q333260
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Died 1984-12-08.
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1984).
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Awarded USSR State Prize (1982).
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Awarded Lyapunov Prize (1977).
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Awarded USSR State Prize (1974).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1974).
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1971).
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Awarded USSR State Prize (1967).
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Awarded Zhukovsky Prize (1964).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1964).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1963).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1963).
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Chelomey became an Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Mechanics Department
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Began work on a design for a much more powerful ICBM, the UR-500, although it was rather quickly rejected as impractical to use as a missile
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1959).
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Awarded Lenin Prize (1959).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1959).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1959).
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Chelomey was appointed the Chief Designer of Aviation Equipment
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OKB-52 put forward a proposal for a multi-stage Intercontinental ballistic missile
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Chelomey was appointed the Chief Designer of the OKB-52, where he continued to work on cruise missiles
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Became a professor at the School in 1952
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Chelomey worked at the Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motor Building (TsIAM) in Moscow, where he created the first Soviet pulsating air jet engine in 1942, independently of similar contemporary developments in Naz
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Chelomey graduated from the institute with honours
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Studied at Kyiv Aviation University (1937).
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His first book Vector Analysis was published
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Chelomey was admitted to the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (later the basis of Kyiv Aviation Institute), where he showed himself as a student with outstanding talent
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Born 1914-06-30.
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