External links
- Petrov Georgy biography. Encyclopedia Astronautica
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Georgy Ivanovich Petrov (Russian : Георгий Иванович Петров; 31 May 1912, Pinega – 13 May 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet physicist specializing in fluid mechanics and gas dynamics. In 1935 after graduating from the Moscow State University, Petrov worked at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. In 1944 he worked at NII-1, a jet propulsion research institute. In 1953 he was nominated professor at the Moscow State University. In the same year he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. From 1965 to 1973 Petrov directed the Russian Space Research Institute.
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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was a Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers in the former Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, and academician.
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography, a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, Russia.
Georgy Timofeyevich Zatsepin was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic ray physics and neutrino astrophysics.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Merited Artist of Russian SFSR (1978).
The Russian Space Research Institute is the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences on space exploration to benefit fundamental science. It was formerly known as the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It is usually known by the shorter name Space Research Institute and especially by the initialism IKI.
Georgy Valentinovich Boos is a Russian businessman and politician who served as the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast from 2005 to 2010.
Georgy Ivanovich Rerberg was a Soviet cinematographer.
Georgy Filippovich Baydukov was a Soviet test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936), writer and hunter.
Boris Andreevich Grushin was a well-known Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist and historical and sociological scientist. He is generally seen as the pioneer of public opinion polling in the Soviet Union more than thirty years before its breakup. Prominent American novelist Olga Grushin is his daughter.
Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United States, where his fluent English helped make him a frequent guest on American television. He was the founding director and later emeritus director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), the Soviet and Russian think tank for the study of US and Canada.
Iosif Ziselovich Begun, sometimes spelled Yosef is a former Soviet refusenik, prisoner of conscience, human rights activist, author and translator. Over the course of 17 years, Begun was imprisoned three times and spent over eight years in prisons and labor camps as a political prisoner. He was pardoned and freed in 1987 after political pressure from Jewish political organizations and the U.S. Government.
David Peisakhovich Shrayer-Petrov was a Russian-American novelist, poet, memoirist, translator, and medical scientist best known for his novel about refuseniks, Doctor Levitin, his poetry and fiction about Russian Jewish identity and his memoirs about the Soviet literary scene in the late 1950s-1970s.
The year 1924 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Georgy Vyacheslavovich Kurdyumov was a Soviet metallurgist and physicist. He went on to become one of the most famous metallurgist of his time in the Soviet Union. When the Institute of Solid State Physics was established on February 15, 1963, he was one of the main organizers of the institute.
Yuri Alekseyevich Ryzhov was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of fluid dynamics, political and social activist, diplomat, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1970), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former Russian Ambassador to France (1992-1998).
Margarita Georgievna Zhukova was a Soviet and Russian educator and scientist.
Anatoly Alexeyevich Petrov was a Soviet and Russian animation director, animator, artist and educator at VGIK known as the founder of the long-running anthology series Happy Merry-Go-Round and developer of the animation technique he called photographics. A member of ASIFA, he was named Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR in 1989.
Valeriya Alexeyevna Golubtsova was a Soviet scientist and the director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute from 1943 to 1952. A professor who held a PhD in Technical Sciences, she was the wife of Georgy Malenkov.
