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Nikolai Kamov (engineer)

Soviet aerospace engineer

Scientist
Engineer

Years active1923–1973Employers

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (1931-1939)
Kamov Design Bureau (1940-1973)

Known forhelicopter designer, scientist in aerospace engineering domain, founder of the Kamov Design Bureau (1940)TitleDoctor of SciencePredecessorNoneSuccessorSergey Mikheyev [ru]AwardsHero of Socialist Labour
USSR State PrizeSignature

Nikolai Ilyich Kamov (Russian: Никола́й Ильи́ч Ка́мов; 14 September [O.S. 1 September] 1902 – 24 November 1973) was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design of helicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Kamov was born in a Russian family, in Irkutsk, but lived in Tomsk until his death on November 24, 1973 in Moscow. He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University with an engineering degree in 1923.^[3]

Kamov worked with Dmitry Grigorovich and later - for TsAGI. In 1940, he was assigned to establish the new helicopter OKB which was later named after him.^[1]

Memory

Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Since 1992 one of the two main Soviet-Russian helicopter manufacturers bears a surname of Nikolai Kamov^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Свищёв, Георгий, ed. (1994). Авиация : Энциклопедия [Aviation : Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Москва: Большая российская энциклопедия : ЦАГИ. p. 735.
^ Остапенко, Юрий, ed. (2005). XX век. Авиастроение России в лицах [XXth Century. Faces of Russian Aviation Industry] (in Russian). Москва: МОО «Общество авиастроителей». p. 552.
^ ^a ^b Савинский, Юрий (2002). Камов. Творческая биография конструктора вертолётов [Kamov. Creative biography of the Helicopters Designer] (in Russian). Москва: Полигон-Пресс. p. 200. ISBN 9785943840128.
^ "Kamov Design Bureau". www.russianhelicopters.aero. Retrieved 2018-11-26.