Nikolai Kamov (engineer)
Nikolai Ilyich Kamov was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design of helicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.
Biography
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.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.
Nikolai Ilyich Kamov died on November 24, 1973, he was 71 years old.
Awards
- 1972 - Hero of Socialist Labour
- 1962, 1972 - Orders of Lenin
- 1957, 1971 - Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
- 1972 - USSR State Prize
- Doctor of Technical Sciences
Memory
- Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
- Since 1992 one of the two main Soviet-Russian helicopter manufacturers bears a surname of Nikolai Kamov
- In 2018 Tomsk airport renamed into Tomsk Kamov Airport to commemorate Nikolai Kamov by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
- Monument to aircraft designer M.L. Mil and N.I. Kamov in Irkutsk on Lenin Street. The opening was on July 5, 2023.
- The M.L. Mil and N.I. Kamov National Helicopter Center, established in 2019 on the basis of JSC "Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M.L. Mil" and JSC "Kamov". The company is part of the Russian Helicopters holding company.