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Arseny Mironov

1917-12-25 – 2019-07-03

Portrait of Arseny Mironov, April 2007Credit: Apetrov09703

Life & Legacy

Arseny Dmitrievich Mironov (Russian: Арсений Дмитриевич Миронов; 25 December 1917 – 3 July 2019) was a Russian scientist, aerospace engineer, and aviator. He was one of the oldest researchers in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing, a Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI) director from 1981 to 1985, a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1948 and the USSR State Prize in 1976, and an honorary citizen of Zhukovsky.
Mironov contributed to aviation engineering and research through the GFRI, serving as a flight test engineer, researcher, and director. He turned 100 in December 2017.

Occupation & Career

military flight engineer, aircraft pilot, scientist, university teacher, glider pilot, non-fiction writer, inventor, accident investigator

Education

Moscow Aviation Institute

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Order of the Red Banner of Labour; Order of Lenin; Order of the Badge of Honour; Master of Sport of the USSR; Medal "Veteran of Labour"; Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"; Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Stalin Prize, 3rd degree; USSR State Prize; Honoured aircraft engineer of the USSR; Gromov medal; Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"; Honoured aircraft engineer; Metody aėrofizicheskikh issledovaniĭ v polete; Aviation : encyclopedia; Letnye issledovanii︠a︡ i ispytanii︠a︡ : fragmenty istorii i sovremennoe sostoi︠a︡nie : nauchno-tekhnicheskiĭ sbornik; Spravochnai︠a︡ biblioteka aviat︠s︡ionnogo inzhenera-ispytateli︠a︡. Letnye ispytanii︠a︡ samoletov i vertoletov; Flight safety and language of operating documentation; Letno-Issledovatelʹskij Institut Imeni M. M. Gromova, 1941-2001 : sobytija, ljudi ; [k 60-letiju LII Im. M. M. Gromova]; Ispytateli LII

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Gromov medal · Honoured aircraft engineer · Honoured aircraft engineer of the USSR · Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" · Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Master of Sport of the USSR · Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" · Medal "Veteran of Labour" · Order of Lenin · Order of the Badge of Honour · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Stalin Prize, 3rd degree · USSR State Prize

Employer

Gromov Flight Research Institute · Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Notable Work

Aviation : encyclopedia · Flight safety and language of operating documentation · Ispytateli LII · Letno-Issledovatelʹskij Institut Imeni M. M. Gromova, 1941-2001 : sobytija, ljudi ; [k 60-letiju LII Im. M. M. Gromova] · Letnye issledovanii︠a︡ i ispytanii︠a︡ : fragmenty istorii i sovremennoe sostoi︠a︡nie : nauchno-tekhnicheskiĭ sbornik · Metody aėrofizicheskikh issledovaniĭ v polete · Spravochnai︠a︡ biblioteka aviat︠s︡ionnogo inzhenera-ispytateli︠a︡. Letnye ispytanii︠a︡ samoletov i vertoletov