Mikhail Dobriyan
Mikhail Borisovich Dobriyan | |
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| Born | 26 June 1947 |
| Died | 16 October 2013 (aged 66) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Engineering (mechanics) |
| Institutions | Russian Space Research Institute |
Mikhail Borisovich Dobriyan (Russian: Михаил Борисович Добриян; 26 June 1947 – 16 November 2013), was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Tarusa.[1] He was one of the leading figures in the programs of the International Astrophysical Observatory GRANAT and Vega program.[2] He was a head of Tarussky District[3] and an honorary citizen of the city of Tarusa.[4] A street there is named in his honor, and a memorial is dedicated to his memory.[5][6][7]
Other awards
[edit]- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
- Medal of Sergey Korolev
- Medal "For Battle Merit"
References
[edit]- ^ List of directors of the SKB KP IKI RAN Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today
- ^ Social-political newspaper of the Tarusa loc. gov. «October». Tarusa, April 2011
- ^ Contacts msu-russia.ru [dead link]
- ^ List of the Tarusian honorary citizens
- ^ Honoring of a Very Important Tarusian
- ^ Celebration of 768 years of Tarusa Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Opening of the Memorial dedicated to the memory of Mikhail B. Dobriyan.