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Kuznetsov, Nikolai Dmitriyevich
Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Russian chief designer. Chief Designer and General Designer 1949-1994 of OKB-276.

Born: 1911-06-23. Died: 1995-07-30.

The bureau originally, with the assistance of German engineers, designed the enormous turboprop engines for the Tu-95 bomber. When Glushko refused to design cryogenic rockets to Korolev's specifications for the R-9 and N1 rockets, Korolev turned to Kuznetsov. The bureau was located in Samara, the same city where the missiles would be built. Kuznetsov undeservedly took much of the blame for the repeated failures of the N1 launch vehicle. By the time the project was cancelled in 1974 he had conducted massive testing on a range of extremely reliable, high-performance Lox/Kerosene engines for he booster. The engines were stored and considered for a number of Soviet spaceplane designs in the 1980's. After the fall of the Soviet Union the engines were marketed in the West, for inclusion in the Atlas III or Kistler launch vehicles. However they still managed never to be achieve flight status.



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Kuznetsov bureau Russian manufacturer of turbojet, turboprop, and rocket engines.

Country: Russia. Bibliography: 445, 5662.
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1969 August 1 - . Launch Vehicle: N1.
1969 December 26 - . Launch Vehicle: N1.
1972 August 21 - . Launch Vehicle: N1.
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