Yuri Kondratyuk
Scientist, Inventor
1897 – 1942
Who was Yuri Kondratyuk?
Yuriy Vasilievich Kondratyuk, real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei, was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He is a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.
Kondratyuk made his scientific discoveries in circumstances of war, repetitious persecutions from authorities and serious illnesses.
"Yuriy Kondratyuk" is a stolen identity under which the author was hiding after the Russian revolution and became known to the scientific community.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1897
Poltava - Also known as
- Aleksandr Gnatovich Shargei
- Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians
- Nationality
- Russia
- Soviet Union
- Russian Empire
- Ukraine
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
Engineering
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
- Lived in
- Novosibirsk
- Died
- 1942
Kaluga Oblast
Submitted
on July 23, 2013