Sergey Nepobedimiy

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name = Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimiy


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birth_date = birth date and age|1921|09|13
birth_place = Ryazan, USSR
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occupation = engineer at CNIIAG
spouse = Lora Ivanovna Nepobedimaya (Kuvshinova, 1923 — 1997)
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children = daughter - Nataliya Sergeevna Fokina (Nepobedimaya, b. 1943)

Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimiy (b. September 13, 1921, Ryazan, USSR) is a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989).

He graduated from MSTU named after N. E. Bauman in 1945 and was directed to the work at "SKB-101" ("KBM", currently FSUE «KB Mashinostroyeniya») of Boris Ivanovich Shavirin.

He was the principal constructor of:
* anti-tank systems «Shmel» (1960), «Malyutka» (1963) and later, the semi-automatic «Malyutka-P» (1969);
* «Strela-2» (1968), «Strela-2M» (1970), «Strela-3» (1974), «Igla-1» (1981), «Igla» (1983);
* supersonic anti-tank guided rocket system «Sturm» - «Sturm-B» for the helicopters (1976) and «Sturm-C» for the vehicles (1978); «Ataka» (seriously modernized «Sturm») and first double-channeled Khrizantema.
* tactical rocket complexes TRK "Tochka" - with SBCh, OFBCh (1975), with KBCh (1977), with G (1979), with F-R (1982) and Tochka-U (1988), operative-tactical rocket complex OTRK "Oka" (1980).
* active armored vehicle defence system KAZ "Arena" In 1989 after the INF Treaty, which eliminated all Soviet OTRK "Oka" (though formally they were not mentioned in the treaty) Nepobedimiy stepped down as Chief Designer and retired from KBM.

Since 1990 is working in the Moscow Central Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Hydraulics, also the Chief of the scientific and technical center "REAGENT"

He is an author of more than 350 scientific works, patents and one discovery.

Name

His surname, Nepobedimiy, means "unconquerable" ("invincible") in Russian.

External links

* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/nepdimiy.htm Sergei Pavlovich Nepobedimiy]