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Nikolai Kamov (engineer)

Soviet aerospace engineer

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Nikolai Kamov
Николай Камов
Kamov in 1966
Born	Nikolai Ilyich Kamov (1902-09-14)September 14, 1902 Irkutsk, Irkutsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	24 November 1973(1973-11-24) (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Burial place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Tomsk Polytechnic University (1923)
Occupations	Scientist Engineer
Years active	1923–1973
Employers	Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (1931-1939) Kamov Design Bureau (1940-1973)
Known for	helicopter designer, scientist in aerospace engineering domain, founder of the Kamov Design Bureau (1940)
Title	Doctor of Science
Predecessor	None
Successor	Sergey Mikheyev [ru]
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labour USSR State Prize
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Nikolai Ilyich Kamov (Russian: Никола́й Ильи́ч Ка́мов; 14 September [O.S. 1 September] 1902 – 24 November 1973) was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design of helicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.^[1][2][3]

Biography[edit]

Kamov was born in a Russian family, in Irkutsk, but lived in Tomsk until his death on November 24, 1973 in Moscow. He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University with an engineering degree in 1923.^[3]

Kamov worked with Dmitry Grigorovich and later - for TsAGI. In 1940, he was assigned to establish the new helicopter OKB which was later named after him.^[1]

Memory[edit]

• Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
• Since 1992 one of the two main Soviet-Russian helicopter manufacturers bears a surname of Nikolai Kamov^[4]

See also[edit]

• List of Kamov aircraft

References[edit]

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