Today, June 10, 2021, marks 110 years since the birth of the constructor of rocket and aircraft engines, the general designer of Nikolai Dmitrievich Aviadvorov.
Nikolay Kuznetsov graduated from the Air-Technical Faculty of Motor Local Branch in VVI named after N.E. Zhukovsky (1938); D.T., Professor (1960), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1974), RAS (1991). Since 1942 – in the existing army. He worked: from 1943 to 1949 – a Motor-Building Plant, Ufa: Deputy Chief Designer of the OKB, Chief Designer (1946); From 1949 to 1994 – headed the State Union Experienced Plant No. 2 (OKB-276), Kuibyshev.
Under his leadership, the enterprise created original and modified gas turbine engines for aircraft for various purposes; The NK-15 liquid rocket engine was created for the N-1 carrier missiles, which is part of the rocket and space complex, designed for the lunch of the moon and landing of the cosmonaut on its surface, as well as the engine for the GM-1 global missile.
Laureate Lenin (1957), state (1965) premiums and premiums of the USSR. He was awarded the orders of Lenin (five times), the October Revolution, the Red Banner, the Patriotic War I Art. (twice), Red Star (twice). Honorary Citizen Kuibyshev (1982).
An outstanding constructor of rocket and aircraft engines Nikolai Dmitrievich Kuznetsov died on July 31, 1995.