Viktor Makeyev
V. P. Makeyev (1924–85)
Born	25 October 1924 Protopopovo, Kolomna District, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia)
Died	25 October 1985(1985-10-25) (aged 61) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Engineer
Engineering career
Discipline	Engineering (mechanics)
Projects	Space Race
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labor (2) Order of Lenin (5) USSR State Prize (3)

Viktor Petrovich Makeyev (also Makeev; Russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Маке́ев; 25 October 1924 – 25 October 1985) was a Soviet engineer in the Soviet space program who was also a central and founding figure in development of Submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) for the Soviet Navy.

Work

Makeyev's work has resulted in three generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles being used by the Russian Navy.

Among these were:

First generation

• R-11FM – the first Soviet SLBM.
• R-13
• R-17 – known by NATO as Scud-B
• R-21 (SS-N-5 "Sark") – the first Soviet missile with underwater launch (1963)

Second generation

• R-27 – the first missile with factory fuelling (1968)
• R-27K
• R-29 – the world first intercontinental SLBM (1974)

Third generation

• R-29R – the first intercontinental SLBM with MRV (1977)
• R-39 – the first intercontinental SLBM with MIRV (1983)
• R-29RM – a complex missile of very high technical perfection

The domestic school of sea rocket production, founded and headed by Makeyev, has reached world excellence in a number of tactical and operational characteristics of rockets, control systems, starting systems. The key areas of expertise are:

• accommodation of engines inside tanks of fuel or oxidizer
• maximizing fuel capacitance of rocket shell
• successful use of astrocorrection in ballistic missiles
• use of zone amortization using elastomer materials
• ampulized fuel tanks factory refuelling

Under his management the unique laboratory/experimental base provided complex ground working for rockets.

In 1991, the State Rocket Center Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was named after him. Also named in honour of Makeyev are an avenue in Miass, a street in Kolomna, and a vessel of the Northern fleet. Makeyev's bust is displayed in Miass and Kolomna.

Grants in his name were established in several universities. The Federation of Astronautics of the country has founded a medal. The academician of the century of Item of V. Makeyev. Makeyev was the author of 32 basic inventions, and published more than 200 printed works including monographs.

Awards

• 1959 – Order of Lenin
• 1961 – Hero of Socialist Labor (highest civilian award)
• 1965 – Dr.Sci.Tech.
• 1968 – Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• 1968 – USSR State Prize
• 1974 – Hero of Socialist Labor
• 1978 – USSR State Prize
• 1983 – USSR State Prize

Literature

• "Rockets and people" – B. E. Chertok, M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. ISBN 5-217-02942-0 (in Russian)
• "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - A.I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 2001.[1];
• "S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity" - edited by C. A. Lopota, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014 ISBN 978-5-906674-04-3
• A.I. Ostashev, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov - The Genius of the 20th Century — 2010 M. of Public Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training MGUL ISBN 978-5-8135-0510-2.
• "I look back and have no regrets. " - Author: Abramov, Anatoly Petrovich: publisher "New format" Barnaul, 2022. ISBN 978-5-00202-034-8