Guy Illich Severin
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Guy Illich Severin (Russian: Га́й Ильи́ч Севери́н) - born July 24, 1926, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, who contributed a significant number of publications about life rescue systems and space-suits.
[edit] Biography
In 1949 he graduated from Moscow aviation institute (МАI). Since 1947 he worked in Flight Research Institute named after Michail Gromov (LII) in Zhukovskiy, where he was occupied with researches and flight tests of the aircraft crew rescue systems and in-flight refueling systems.
By a collective of engineers, led by Severin, some major principles and working prototypes of landing systems and rocket emergency escape slides for Vostok spacecraft were done Since 1964 he became the Head designer, General Designer and finally General Director and General Designer of the joint-stock company NPP Zvezda, located in Tomilino. Under his direction, the company developed space-suits, life-support systems and rocket emergency escape slides for all USSR/Russia spacecrafts and orbiting space stations, starting from Vostok 1, including the special inflatable EVA airlock of the Voskhod 2, an open space manoeuvring unit, etc.
He participated in preparations for the Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts space flights on Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz spacecrafts.
On the photo: Gay Severin with the President of Russian Vladimir Putin on the international airspace show MAKS-2001 Zhukovskiy are standing near the NPP Zvezda exposition. Peoples from left to right: Guy Severin, Michael Pogosyan (Director General of Sukhoi design bureau), Yuri Koptev (Director General of Rosaviacosmos), Vladimir Putin, Sergey Ivanov (Russian Defence Minister), Ilya Klebanov (Russian Industry Minister).
[edit] See also
- Guy, Gaii in Wiktionary for his first name explanation
[edit] Source
- (Russian) Space-suits of Russia by I.P.Abramov, M.N.Doodnik, V.I. Svershek, G.I.Severin, A.I.Skoog and A.Yu. Stoklitskiy, JSC NPP Zvezda, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-7368-0285-6
