Aleksandr Borisovich Zheleznyakov

Alexander Borisovich Schelesnjakow (Russian Александр Борисович Железняков; born January 28, 1957 in Leningrad ) is a Russian rocket and space technicians in the field of development and production. He is also a writer and journalist.

Life

Schelesnjakow graduated in 1980 at the Polytechnic Institute Kalinin (now State Polytechnic University ) in Leningrad as an engineer - physicist. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Space " KE Ziolkowski, " and was employed as an engineer 1980-1981 in Leningrad research and production enterprise NPO pulse.

From 1983 to 1989 he worked in the scientific production association " Krasnaya Zarya " as an engineer, senior engineer, assistant to the Head of Department and Head of Department. Between 1989 and 2001 he worked in the experimental design bureau Raduga (now the research and development company ) as head of department, head of the center, executive vice president, and finally as Director General. Later he worked as a director, consultant and principal designer at the Central Institute for Robotics and Cybernetics (English CRDI RTC ) of the Russian State Centre for Business. Since 2007 Schelesnjakow works in an advisory capacity for the president 's leading space company RKK Energia. Schelesnjakow is president of the Foundation for Education and Funding in St. Petersburg.

Parallel to his career Alexander Schelesnjakow is literary works; he is committed to a stronger Popularity national and international achievements in space. His first publication was made on 15 March 1989. Since then he has written thirteen books and several hundred articles. Schelesnjakow published under the pseudonyms " Aleksander Jurkewitsch ", " Aleksander Borisov ", " Konstantin Ivanov ", " A.Zh. " and " KI".

He is a member of the Russian Astronautical Federation, the Association of Russian authors, the International Federation of Journalists ( IFJ ) and the Association of Writers from St. Petersburg.

Awards

  • Medal " Order of Merit for the Fatherland " II degree (2007)
  • Medal "300 years of St. Petersburg" (2003)
  • Medal of Roskosmos ( Russian Aviation and Space Agency ) on the occasion of the forty year anniversary of the space flight of Yuri Gagarin
  • " Merit Medals " the Russian Astronautical Federation, named after " K. Ziolkowski, "" Yu. Kondratyuk "," S. Korolev, "" W. Glushko, "" M. Yangel "," W. Tereshkova "
  • Medal " M. Yangel " the Ukrainian National Space Agency
  • Winner of the literature prize A.R. " Belyaeva "

Publications

  • " The Soviet Space: Chronicle of emergencies and disasters ", St. Petersburg 1998.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1957, " St. Petersburg, 2002.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1958, " St. Petersburg, 2002.
  • " Rocket crash during startup ", St. Petersburg, 2003.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1959, " St. Petersburg, 2003.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1960, " St. Petersburg, 2003.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1961, " St. Petersburg, 2004.
  • " The secret of the missile accidents ", Moscow, 2004.
  • "Space station " Mir ": from triumph to ... ", St. Petersburg, 2006.
  • " Chronicles of the space era. Born in 1962, " St. Petersburg, 2006
  • " The mysterious cosmos. Myths and phantoms in orbit ", Moscow, 2006.
  • "Sex in Space ", St. Petersburg, 2008.
  • " The main line: Poems ", St. Petersburg, 2009.
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