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Boris Chertok

1912 - 2011

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Boris Yevseyevich Chertok (Russian: Бори́с Евсе́евич Черто́к; 14 March [O.S. 1 March] 1912 – 14 December 2011) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program, mainly working in control systems, and later found employment in Roscosmos. Major responsibility under his guidance was primarily based on computerized control system of the Russian missiles and rocketry system, and authored the four-volume book Rockets and People– the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the Korolev design bureau, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Chertok has received more than 64,578 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Boris Chertok is the 254th most popular engineer (down from 246th in 2019), the 861st most popular biography from Poland (down from 787th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Engineer.

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  • 19

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Boris Chertok ranks 254 out of 323Before him are Oskar von Miller, Robert Mallet, Peter Chen, Gerhard Fieseler, Essam Sharaf, and Robert W. Paul. After him are James B. Francis, Rudy Van Gelder, Frederick Terman, Louis Vicat, Hans Moravec, and Louis Pouzin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Boris Chertok ranks 240Before him are Iuliu Bodola, Tadashi Imai, Michael Wilding, Givi Javakhishvili, Viviane Romance, and John Frost. After him are Roberto Emílio da Cunha, José Iraragorri, Albert Richter, Morris Louis, Miklós Szabados, and Jean Vilar. Among people deceased in 2011, Boris Chertok ranks 246Before him are Maurice Guigue, Karl Aage Præst, Nilla Pizzi, Juan Arza, Jeff Conaway, and Tatyana Lioznova. After him are Héctor Núñez, Bert Jansch, Jean Tabary, Theodore Roszak, Luiz Bueno, and Tura Satana.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Boris Chertok ranks 861 out of 1,454Before him are Jacob Talmon (1916), Józef Szmidt (1935), O. E. Hasse (1903), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Mascha Kaléko (1907), and Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886). After him are Hanna Krall (1935), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Fritz Stern (1926), Otto Toeplitz (1881), Heinrich Göppert (1800), and Max Berg (1870).

Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Boris Chertok ranks 9Before him are Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Walter Thiel (1910), and Johannes Winkler (1897).