Samuel Rabinovich
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Samuel P. Rabinovich (1909–1988) was an outstanding Soviet engineer
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

, one of the founders of practical radar systems, the chief designer of the first series of radar stations designed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Biography

Samuel P. Rabinovich was born in 1909 in the village of Kamenka, Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

 region. From 1931 to 1937 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Communication Engineers. In the years 1937-1940 participated in creating the first practical radar station (radar) RUS-2 "Redoubt". This station was deployed in the war near the Moscow
Moscow
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 detected more than 200 German bombers and gave information about them to guide fighters and targeting anti-aircraft artillery.

In 1942, Samuel P. Rabinovich is deputy chief designer of the radar station CPA-2, and since 1945 - chief designer of the radar CPA-4 ("Ray"). For the first time in domestic practice, the station CPA-4 provided three modes: circular scanning, manual antenna
Antenna (radio)
An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver...

 control and automatic target tracking the angular coordinates. The first mode is used for target detection and monitoring of the traffic condition on the indicator, the second—for the detection of targets in specific sector before going to the auto maintenance and for coarse positioning, the third—to accurately determine the azimuth and elevation
Elevation
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 in automatic mode and manual slant range or semi-automatic way.

Since 1956 Samuel P. Rabinovich is chief designer of the radar sighting of interceptor
Interceptor
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 missiles and command transfer station (RSVPR) experimental missile defense
Missile defense
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 system (NMD). Fully missile defense system first tested in March 1961 had shown the fundamental possibility of defeat warhead
Warhead
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s of ballistic missile
Ballistic missile
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s. This achievement had risen in a row with the launch of the first Sputnik, the first cosmonaut, and other accomplishments, which showed the highest scientific, technical and organizational level of defense enterprises and organizations of the Ministry of Defence.

In the 1970s was the chief designer of the radar ST-68 (5N59) - moving the three coordinates of the station to detect and track low-altitude targets in active and passive noise in the presence of strong reflections from the ground and in adverse weather
Weather
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 conditions.

Awards

  • Order of the Red Star
    Order of the Red Star
    Established on 6 April 1930, the Order of the Red Star was an order of the Soviet Union, given to Red Army and Soviet Navy personnel for "exceptional service in the cause of the defense of the Soviet Union in both war and peace". It was established by Resolution of the Presidium of the CEC of the...

     in 1939
  • Stalin Prize (later to rename the State Prize of the USSR) in 1950
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
    Order of the Red Banner of Labour
    The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an order of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order.-History:The Red...

     in 1954
  • Order of Honor 1961
  • Order of Red Banner of Labor in 1964
  • Honored radioman USSR
  • Honored Science and Technology of the RSFSR

Biographical Sources

  • Scientific-Research Institute of Electro, History Enterprises http://www.niemi.ru/
  • Milestones of the 35-year history TSNPO-MAK Vympel'

http://old.vko.ru/article.asp?pr_sign=archive.2005.22.20
  • YB Kobzarev, first steps of Soviet radar, Nature Magazine, December 1985, http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/JOURNAL/NATURE/OLD/RADAR.HTM
  • By the 90 th anniversary of the birth of Grigory Kisun'ko-first General Designer of domestic resources and systems, the Federal Agency for Industry, http://www.rosprom.gov.ru/
  • Short History of Engineering in, http://pvo.guns.ru/book/vniirt/index.htm
  • The first round of Star Wars won SOVIET Union, the Independent Military Review, 2001, http://nvo.ng.ru/history/2001-03-23/5_round.html
  • Kisun'ko Grigoriy "Sekrenaya Zone: Confessions of a master designer, Chapter 13, Contemporary, 1996.

Links

  • Материал из Википедии — свободной энциклопедии
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