Pavel Elyasberg


Pavel Yefimovich Elyasberg was one of the founders of space ballistics in the former Soviet Union.
He was a Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Participant of the Great Patriotic War, Colonel, twice awarded the Order of the Red Star, as well as the Order of the Patriotic War Second Class, and the Order of the Badge of Honour. He was also awarded the Lenin Prize.

Biography

Elyasberg was born into a Jewish family on 5 June 1914 in Zhytomyr. His father Khaim Berovich Elyasberg was from a wealthy Vilnius family, received a university education, and became a prominent figure in BUND. His mother Debora Khaimovna graduated from the Bestuzhev Medical Courses. He had a brother, Maksim Efimovich Elyasberg. The family moved to Kyiv in 1920.
Elyasberg graduated from the postgraduate program at Kyiv University, as a student of Mikhail Lavrentyev.
From 1939 he served in the Red Army, participated in the Great Patriotic War, and was the head of artillery workshops.
In 1947-1968 he worked at NII-4 in Bolshevo as a Colonel, Doctor of Technical Sciences.
Since 1968, after being discharged into the reserve, he worked as the head of the ballistics department of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
He also taught at Moscow State University, and since 1963 he has been a professor in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics.
He died on 30 March 1988 and was buried in Moscow at the

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