Nikolai Ghost

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Nikolai Leonidowicz Duchov (Russian: Nikolai Leonidov Dukov, born October 26, 1904 in the village of Wepryk in the Hadziacki region, died on May 1, 1964 in Moscow) - Soviet constructor of atomic weapons and thermonuclear charges, three times Hero of Socialist Work (1945, 1949) and 1954). Curriculum vitae He studied at the classical gymnasium in Hadziacz, from 1920 he worked as the technical secretary of the agricultural department of the local executive committee, then the head of the reading room and the dispatcher in the power plant, later in the sugar factory, 1928 he graduated from the workers' faculty (Rabfak) in Kharkiv. In 1932 he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (specialty: construction and manufacture of tractors and cars) and became an engineer in a defense factory. After the German attack on the USSR, he was evacuated to Chelyabinsk, where he worked in a tractor factory in which he became the main constructor (during the war with Germany the factory switched to the production of tanks). After the war, he participated in works aimed at creating the Soviet atomic bomb - in 1946 he became the head of the special constructor's office of Biuro Konstruktorski (KB-11) of the "Gawgorstroja" Bureau of the Ministry of Construction of Medium Machines, and in 1948 the deputy chief designer of KB-11. He was an active participant in the trial of the first Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1 on the semi-siphon polygon on August 29, 1949. In the years 1952-1954 he was deputy scientific director and chief constructor KB-11, August 12, 1953 he took an active part in the test of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-6. From July 1954 he was deputy scientific director of KB-11, and from 1956 the director, principal constructor and scientific director of branch No. 1 KB-11, on the basis of which KB-25 (later the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Automatów named after Duchów) was created. Medium USSR Machines. While he was in charge of it, rocket ballistic missile R-7 and torpedo T-5. On January 21, 1945, he was named major general of the engineering and tank service, and on May 31, 1954, general of the engineering and technical service lieutenant. From 1953 he was a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the degree of doctor of technical sciences. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. Honors and awards Bibliography

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