Scientist Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev made a huge contribution to the development of space technologies in Russia. This is one of the founders of the cosmonautics of our country, under the leadership and with the direct participation of which at least thirty types of space systems and complexes were developed. The academician owns over two hundred inventions and scientific papers.
Biography
Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev was born on 1924-10-11 in the Ukrainian village of Barmashovo, Mykolaiv region. In 1929 he and his parents moved to Dnepropetrovsk. At the age of fifteen he graduated from high school and decided to enter the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1939, he applied, but was not accepted due to his young age.
A year later, Mikhail Reshetnev nevertheless entered the coveted university, but could not complete his studies, because after the start of World War II, at the age of seventeen, he volunteered for the army. He completed courses in aviation mechanics at the Serpukhov military school and served in the 26th reserve with the rank of sergeant.fighter regiment.
Returning from the war, Mikhail resumed his studies at the Aviation Institute and graduated with honors in 1950. The aircraft designer underwent undergraduate practice under the guidance of M. K. Tikhonravov at NII-88. He wrote a diploma on missile topics.
Formation and flourishing
In 1950-1959 Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev worked at OKB-1, having gone from engineer to lead designer and deputy chief designer. His main task was to provide design support for the serial production of R-11M missiles developed by OKB-1, which was mastered by the machine-building plant in Krasnoyarsk.
In 1959, being the Deputy Chief Designer of OKB-1, Reshetnev simultaneously became the head of the branch of the OKB-10 enterprise, located in Krasnoyarsk-26 (now Zheleznogorsk).
In November 1962, a young team of designers accepted from OKB-586 a project to develop a light-class launch vehicle. When the enterprise, led by Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev, completed the creation of the Cosmos launch vehicle, he was 39 years old. In August 1964, with the help of Kosmos, the first OKB-10 satellites were launched into orbit.
Mature years
In 1967, OKB-10 became an independent design bureau, called the Design Bureau of Applied Mechanics, and Reshetnev became its general designer. The activities of KB PM were aimed at developing information satellite systems for civil and military purposes.
In the same year for the creation of new equipment to MikhailFedorovich was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. In 1975, he became a professor at the Department of Machine Design at the Institute of Space Technology in Krasnoyarsk (now Siberian State University named after Reshetnev). In 1976, the aircraft designer was elected a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
From 1977 until the day of his death, Mikhail Fedorovich served as general director and general designer of the NPO of Applied Mechanics, which included the Design Bureau PM and the mechanical plant. In 1985, the scientist became a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1989, he was the head of the Department of Mechanics and Control Processes at KSU.
Academician Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev died in Zheleznogorsk on January 26, 1996 at the age of 71. Buried there.
Private life
The aircraft designer was married to a woman named Lyudmila Georgievna. They had a daughter, Tamara. Reshetnev also has a grandson named Mikhail in his honor. Close people spoke of the academician as a faithful husband, an attentive father and a caring grandfather. After the death of Mikhail Fedorovich, his family moved to Moscow. It is known that the grandson of the scientist graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.
During his lifetime, Reshetnev tried to support people in trouble: he sent them for treatment and helped with housing. Once I ordered a helicopter and agreed with the military to find a man who was lost in the taiga. On another occasion, he organized the transportation of a deceased colleague from a distant region and paid for a worthy funeral. According to the memoirs of his subordinates, Mikhail Fedorovich was an extremely fair person, he stood up for his enterprise and employees. But alsohe didn’t let go - he could punish very severely, but he never broke into rudeness or shouting.
Achievements and awards
Mikhail Fyodorovich Reshetnev was an outstanding scientist and made an invaluable contribution to the development of national cosmonautics. He also had a great influence on the creation of a scientific school in Siberia, bringing together the most talented engineers and developers of space and rocket technology.
Under the leadership of Reshetnev, a magnetogravitational automatic orientation system was created, which has an almost unlimited service life. She ensured the flight of spacecraft in the USSR and Russia. The academician comprehensively studied the physics of space factors, which made it possible to develop methods for reliable protection of spacecraft sent into orbit.
Mikhail Fedorovich made a significant practical and theoretical contribution to the kinematics of transformable structures, the creation of actuating automation devices, and the mechanics of composite materials. Thanks to his work, new directions were opened in the field of special engineering, navigation, geodetic and communication satellite systems were created.
Various spacecraft developed in the 1960s-1990s. NPO PM are still rightfully considered the most reliable in Russia.
During his lifetime, Academician Reshetnev was awarded numerous prizes and awards. He was a Hero of Socialist Labor, was a laureate of the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Awarded with three orders of Lenin, the Order of the third degree "For Services to the Fatherland", "Badge of Honor".
Memory
In 1998, the scientist was posthumously awarded a diploma and a medal from the American Institute of Astronautics for his contribution to the development and development of satellite telecommunications.
In 2000, the Center for Minor Planets, located in Cambridge at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, assigned the name of Reshetnev to minor planet No. 7046.
The Aerospace University in Krasnoyarsk also bears the name of Mikhail Fedorovich; JSC Information Satellite Systems (formerly NPO PM); Lyceum No. 102, square and street in Zheleznogorsk; Il-96 passenger aircraft.
A museum operates in Zheleznogorsk, where design developments, scientific works, personal belongings and photos of Mikhail Reshetnev are kept. NPO Applied Mechanics, where the academician laid the foundations for the development of domestic cosmonautics sixty years ago, today presents the results of his work at all Russian and international aerospace shows and exhibitions. This suggests that the work of Mikhail Fedorovich is alive, and his students are successfully using the legacy that the scientist left them.
