Boris Mikhailovich Malinin

Boris Mikhailovich Malinin (1889-1949) ( _ru. Борис Михайлович Малинин) was a Soviet shipbuilding scientist and graduate of Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute. From 1926 to 1940, he was the chief designer of the majority of Soviet submarines to include the Dekabrist-class, Leninets-class, Shchuka-class, and Malyutka-class.

In 1913 at the age of 24, he designed and built the Bars-class submarine "Volk" ( _ru. ВОЛК; Wolf). Later in May of 1916 under the command Captain Ivan Messer, the "Volk" destroyed three German transports. [ [http://rusnavy.com/history/hrn11-e.htm "The Great War: The Fleet Reborn"] ]

Since November 4, 1926, under Malinin's leadership the Technical Bureau No.4 managed submarine construction at the Baltic Shipyard. The name "Technical Bureau No.4" was given to the former Submarine Department, and is still a secret department. In subsequent years, 133 submarines were built to the designs developed under Malinin's leadership. [http://www.ckb-rubin.ru/eng/history/pred/1926_1941/index.htm SOE CDB ME "Rubin" Website: "Periods of Activities (1926-1941)"] ]

In the 1950s the tradition continued when his son K.B. Malinin while serving as a naval officer provided sketches of what would later become the world's first ballistic missile submarines. [Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Zapolskiy, "Missiles Take Off From the Sea, Issue 2, 1994", from the series "Submarine Building. Past, Present, Future" ( [http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/slbm/jpuma010_95001.htm Online] )] Along with fellow officers B. F. Vasilyev, V. V. Bashenkov, and N. I. Petelin, their ideas and sketches were the basis of the preliminary specifications drawn up by the Technical Design Bureau (TsKB-16 (Volna)). The bureau's designs included the conversion of six Zulu-class attack submarines to launch Scud missiles; this work led to the design of the Golf-class ballistic submarine. [Norman Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore, "Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet" (2003), page 342, ISBN 1574885944]

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* [http://graptolite.net/Facta_Nautica/podlodki/malinin.html Nautical Facts Website]
* [http://www.ckb-rubin.ru/eng/history/pred/1901_1926/index.htm Periods of Activities (1901-1926) ] at www.ckb-rubin.ru