Anatoli Blagonravov

Anatoli Arkadyevitch Blagonravov (Russian Анатолий Аркадьевич Благонравов, scientific transliteration: .. Anatoly Arkad'evic Blagonravov; * 20 Maijul / June 1 1894greg in Ankowo, Vladimir province, † February 4, 1975 in Moscow) was a Soviet military scientists and aerospace expert.

In 1924 he graduated from the Artillery College and 1929 the artillery department of the Soviet military-technical academy, where he then remained as a teacher and which he was president from 1946 to 1950. In 1938 he founded the first chair of infantry and small arms. In 1943 he was admitted as a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Since 1953 he was director of the Institute of Machine Engineering and is also Chairman of the Commission on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Since 1959, he was Vice President of the Committee on Space Research.

Blagonravov campaigned during the Cold War for international cooperation in space and was instrumental in bringing about the Apollo - Soyuz Test Project, the Rendezvous ' of an American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft on July 17, 1975 involved.

He had the military rank of lieutenant general.

Honors

Blagonravov been honored with numerous Soviet state prizes and medals. He was five times awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize, Lenin Prize in 1960, respectively in the field of technology.