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Image # : chiefdesigners1959
Date : 1959

Title

Soviet Council of Chief Designers in 1959

Full Description

This photo of the Soviet Council of Chief Designers dates from 1959 during control of a Luna mission to the Moon. From the left are Aleksey Bogomolov, Mikhail Ryazanskiy, Nikolay Pilyugin, Sergey Korolev, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Barmin, and Vikto Kuznetsov. Most reproductions of the picture have Bogomolov on the left cropped off because he was not one of the original members of the council from the 1940s. When Korolev formed the council in November 1947, it operated as an informal and separate entity from the other institutes and design bureaus and eventually assumed engineering control over much of the early development of the Soviet space program.

Keywords

Korolev Council of Chief Designers Bogomolov Ryazanskiy Nikolay Pilyugin Glushko Barmin Kuznetsov

Subject Category

Soviet People-Pioneers

Reference Numbers

  • Center: HQ
  • Center Number: chiefdesigners1959
  • GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2002-000169

Source Information

  • Original Source: DIGITAL
  • Source/Capture Information: Asif Siddiqi

Image Information ( Copyright Notification )

ResolutionFormatWidth
(Pixels)		Height
(Pixels)		Size
(KBytes)
Thumbnail JPEG 72 43 5
Small JPEG 509 308 123
Medium JPEG 1194 723 732
Large JPEG 2388 1446 1,889

Publication Information

Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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