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Academician Boris Katorgin specialist in energy and propulsion engineering. After graduating from the Bauman Higher Technical School in 1958, has gone from a simple engineer to the general designer and general director of NPO "Energomash" name Glushko.
One of the most important inventions of Boris Katorgin - antipulsatsionnye partition of special nozzles for combustion chambers of rocket engines (liquid-fuel rocket engines) - solved a serious problem of providing stable combustion in which fuel components at high pressures. This invention is implemented today in most modern engines NPO "Energomash" RD-107, RD-108, RD-120, RD-170, RD-171, RD-180, RD-191, for launch vehicle "Soyuz", "Zenit "," Energy "," Atlas "," Angara ", ensuring their reliability. With the direct participation of Boris Katorgin built RD-253 engine for the carrier rocket "Proton". This engine, in operation since 1965 and today is unsurpassed in its class in the world engine.
The great achievement is the development of domestic engine under the leadership of Boris Katorgin latest RD-180 engine, which was introduced in the U.S. in the competition to select a rocket engine for the modernization of the carrier rocket "Atlas", and won the competition. The engine is recognized as the best American specialists in the world on all major characteristics: energy, performance, reliability.
Boris Katorgin made a major contribution to the creation of high-power cw chemical lasers. He has developed the design principles of these lasers.
Author of over 330 scientific papers, of which 180 inventions.
Laureate of Russian State Prize of the Russian Federation, the international prize "Global Energy" for 2012.
Anticipating possible questions, just answer - it's the brother of my father.
