• Eduard Vaganovich Elyan

    Eduard Vaganovich Elyan

    Eduard Vaganovich Yelyan was a test pilot of the Tupolev Design Bureau, Colonel.

  • Valentin Alekseevich Kargin

    Valentin Alekseevich Kargin

    Valentin Alekseevich Kargin was a Soviet physicochemist and founder of the scientific school.

  • Ekaterina Vasilyevna  Budanova

    Ekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova

    Ekaterina VasilyevnaBudanova 1916-1943 Ekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova was a fighter pilot of the 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 8th Air Army, Southern Front), senior lieutenant of the Guards. She was born on December 7, 1916 in the village of Konoplyanka, the Smolensk region, in a peasant family. She became an orphan…

  • Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich

    Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich

    Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was an aircraft designer, co–head of OKB-155 (Russian Aircraft Company MiG), Doctor of Technical Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Lenin and six Stalin Prizes.

  • Pyotr Dmitrievich Grushin

    Pyotr Dmitrievich Grushin

    Pyotr Dmitrievich Grushin was a scientist, aircraft designer and designer in the field of rocket technology, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1958, 1981), winner of the Lenin and State Prizes.

  • Joseph Semyonovich Gonorovsky

    Joseph Semyonovich Gonorovsky

    Joseph Semyonovich Gonorovsky was a scientist in the field of radio engineering, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1941), Professor (1941), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986).

  • Pavel Andreevich Voronin

    Pavel Andreevich Voronin

    Pavel Andreevich Voronin was a military commander, the Major General of the Aviation Engineering Service (1944), the director and General Director of the aviation production association «Banner of Labor» (Moscow Plant No. 30), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1941, 1982), the winner of the Lenin Prize (1976).

  • Nikolay Vasilyevich Tomsky

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Tomsky

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Tomsky was the President of the USSR Academy of Arts, a sculptor-muralist, the Hero of Socialist Labor.

  • Ivan Pavlovich Bardin

    Ivan Pavlovich Bardin

    Ivan Pavlovich Bardin was the Director of the Institute of Metallurgy of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor.

  • Memorial plaque in memory of the implementation of the flight of the stratostat with the crew

    Memorial plaque in memory of the implementation of the flight of the stratostat with the crew

    In 1934, a height record was set on the stratospheric balloon «Osoaviakhim-1» («OAH-1»). «OAH-1» managed to reach a height of 22 kilometers above sea level for the first time in the world.