Arseny Mironov

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Arseny Dmitrievich Mironov
Арсений Дмитриевич Миронов
Mironov in 2007
Born(1917-12-25)25 December 1917
Vladimir, RSFSR
Died3 July 2019(2019-07-03) (aged 101)
Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Alma materMoscow Aviation Institute (1941)
Occupations
Years active1941–2019
EmployerGromov Flight Research Institute (1941–2019)
Known forscientist in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing, 8th director of the Gromov Flight Research Institute (1981–1985)
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Spouse
Olga E. Rudneva
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(m. 1940; died 2017)​
Children2
Awards
Stalin Prize (1948)
USSR State Prize (1976)
Websitelii.ru/novosti/100-letniy-yubiley-mironova-arseniya-dmitrievicha/ (in Russian)
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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.[1][2][3]

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.[4]

Early life

Mironov was born in Vladimir. His father was Dmitry Ivanovich Mironov (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Миронов; 1884–1956), an engineer-electrician who worked for hydroelectric power station Klasson in Moscow Oblast and later for electric company Mosenergo in Moscow.[5] His mother was Maria Mikhailovna Ilyicheva (Russian: Мария Михайловна Ильичёва; 1889–1982), who was a housewife.[5]

Two years after leaving school, Mironov worked as a factory electrician.[6]

Career

Early years

In 1936, Mironov entered the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) at a new course Flight Testing and graduated in 1941.[7] In May 1941, he started working for the Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI) within the Minaviaprom of the USSR.[6]

Scientific career

In the GFRI, Mironov primarily did engineering and research. He started as a flight test engineer just three days before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.[8] During the war, he participated in the serial production of fighter planes, which included flight and ground testing (to eliminate quality defects in the aircraft's flying and fighting capabilities) conducted by the GFRI and aircraft manufacturers.

Post-war, Mironov developed methods for aerodynamic research using free-flying models, making a breakthrough in collecting in-flight data concerning wing profile pressure distribution at transonic speeds.[9] As a lead scientist, he organized the GFRI's flight research in aeroplanes' physical aerodynamics and associated environment effects, including the sonic boom impact of supersonic aeroplanes.[2]

MiG-21I Imitator, a testbed for testing the concept of the Tu-144's wing

In 1968-1975, Mironov together with V. S. Grachev conducted flight studies of the aerodynamic characteristics of an experimental

ogival delta wing designed for the then developing supersonic airliner Tupolev Tu-144. These studies were conducted at the GFRI on one of the two specially created testbed aeroplanes MiG-21I (I - from the imitator). The research flights were performed by Igor Volk, Oleg Gudkov and Vladislav Loychikov.[10]

Mironov participated in the development and implementation of the Aircraft Testing Handbooks, a series of official guides for the flight and ground testing of military aircraft. He played a major role in the USSR's communication with the

type certification and noise regulation, especially for supersonic transport aeroplanes.[2][9][11]

As a member of investigation commissions, Mironov was closely involved in the investigation of aviation accidents, including the March 1968 MiG-15 training flight accident involving Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin, the 1972 Il-62 airliner crash near Nerskoye Lake, and others. Regarding the MiG-15 training flight accident, Mironov developed and publicly supported a scientifically-grounded position against numerous different explanations and conspiracies.[12][13][14][15]

Mironov became the head of the GFRI's research division. He then worked as a deputy to Victor Utkin [ru], who was the institute's chief from 1969 to 1974. Later, Mironov became his first deputy after veteran Max Taitz. When Utkin died in 1981, Mironov became the institute's chief (1982),[16] serving until Konstantin Vasilchenko [ru] was appointed in 1985.[9] From 1981 to 1985, Mironov was a head of the Aerophysical and Flight Research Department within the Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering Faculty of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.[3]

From 1996 to 2019, Mironov worked for the GFRI as a

human factors and aviation safety.[9]

Flight career

Since childhood, Mironov was interested in aviation and aircraft modelling.[7] While studying in the MAI, he completed the initial flight training course at MAI's aero-club with a U-2 pilot license.[9][17] He later completed gliding flight training and made several parachute jumps.[9][17]

In a group of students visiting the GFRI, Mironov met with then-chief Mikhail Gromov and explained his plans to be a test pilot, to which Gromov responded, "Will see".[7] Since his early days in the institute, Mironov was involved in aircraft flight testing as a test engineer, navigator, and transport pilot. On 4 October 1943, an accident occurred in the La-5 aircraft's test flight with Mironov in the flight crew—a mid-air collision with air defence patrol fighter Yak-1, whose pilot violated normal procedure flying too close to a test aeroplane. Mironov was severely wounded and spent five months in a hospital. Lasting issues in his left elbow hindered Mironov's ability to train and apply for a test pilot position. However, he passed the check flight with the institute's senior test pilot, proving he could fly light transport aeroplanes such as the Po-2. After the incident, Mironov frequently piloted aircraft, including the Po-2 and the Yakovlev UT-1. He completed hundreds of transport flights and obtained a USSR fourth class air transport pilot license. Until 1950, he was also involved in test flights as navigator and flight test engineer on aircraft such as the Il-2, Pe-8, Tu-2, and Yak-9.[7]

Mironov's flight training in gliding started before the war in Chkalov Central Aero-club in Moscow under the supervision of Sergei Anokhin.[7][18] Mironov's flight instructor was Margarita Ratsenskaya, the aero-club's gliding squad commander and Anokhin's wife.[18] Due to a mutual interest in gliding, Mironov became closely acquainted with Oleg Antonov and frequently piloted the Antonov A-15 glider.[7]

Family

Mironov was married to Olga Yevgenevna Rudneva (Russian: Ольга Евгеньевна Руднева; 1919–2017) for 77 years. Rudneva studied in the same class in the MAI with her future husband. She worked at Kazan Aviation Plant and for the GFRI as a lead flight test engineer.[6][5]

The couple had two children. Their son, Mikhail Mironov (Russian: Михаил Арсеньевич Миронов; born 1944), is a Doctor of Physics and Math and an acoustic scientist working for the Andreyev Acoustics Institute.[5][19] Their daughter, Olga Maksakova (Mironova) (Russian: Ольга Арсеньевна Максакова (Миронова); born 1946) is a psychotherapy practitioner and a Doctor of Medicine working for the Burdenko Neurosurgery National Research Center.[5][20]

There are also two grandsons and one granddaughter.[21]

Awards

On his 100th birthday ceremony on 25 December 2017, Mironov was awarded a Chest Badge "Medal of Small Arms Maker M.T. Kalashnikov" by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Memorials

Family grave of Arseny Mironov and his wife Olga Rudneva

Mironov is buried together with his wife Olga at the Bykovskoe Cemetery in Zhukovsky.

Bibliography

Between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, as a chief editor and author, Mironov contributed to the book series Aviation Test Engineer Reference Bibliotheca, which consist of ten and a half monographs on different research and methodical aspects of aircraft flight testing. Mironov's major contributions include the following books:

  • Миронов, А. Д.; Лапин, А. А.; Меерович, Г. Ш.; Зайцев, Ю. И. (1982). Миронов, Арсений (ed.). Задачи и структура летных испытаний самолетов и вертолетов [Objectives and Framework of the Aeroplanes and Helicopters Flight Tests]. Справочная библиотека авиационного инженера-испытателя "Летные испытания самолетов и вертолетов" (in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение. p. 144.
  • Миронов, А. Д.; Королёв, А. А.; Замятин, А. Н.; Роднов, А. В.; Фомин, М. Г. (1985). Методы аэрофизических исследований в полёте [Methods of Aerophysics Flight Research]. Справочная библиотека авиационного инженера-испытателя "Летные испытания самолетов и вертолетов" (in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение. p. 112.
  • Миронов, А. Д.; и др. (1988). Методы исследования на летающих моделях [Methods for Research on Flying Models]. Справочная библиотека авиационного инженера-испытателя "Летные испытания самолетов и вертолетов" (in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение. p. 143.
    ISBN 9785217003037
    .

As an author and consulting editor, Mironov contributed in the academic publication, Свищёв, Георгий, ed. (1994). Авиация : Энциклопедия [Aviation : Encyclopaedia] (in Russian). Москва: Большая российская энциклопедия :

TsAGI
. p. 735.

Mironov's other publications include:

In 2017, Mironov published a short autobiography: Миронов, Арсений (2017). Эпизоды [Episodes] (in Russian). Жуковский: АО «ЛИИ им. М.М. Громова».

References

  1. ^ Znamenskaya, Ela (3 July 2019). "Прощание с легендой: не стало Арсения Дмитриевич Миронова" [Farewell to the legend: Arseny Dmitryevich Mironov is gone] (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. ^ a b c Ostapenko, Yuri, ed. (2005). XX век. Авиастроение России в лицах [XXth Century. Faces of Russian Aviation Industry] (in Russian). Москва: МОО «Общество авиастроителей». p. 552.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Миронов Арсений Дмитриевич" (in Russian). Администрация городского округа Жуковский. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  4. ^ Андрей Симонов (2017-12-25). СТАРЕЙШИНА ЛЁТНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ И ИСПЫТАНИЙ (PDF) (in Russian). Крылья Родины. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  5. ^ a b c d e Anitova, Yelena. "Древо Мироновых-Волковых: Миронов Арсений Дмитриевич" [Family Tree for Mironovs-Volkovs: Mironov Arseny Dmitriyevich] (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  6. ^ a b c Rudneva, Olga (21 January 2001). "Годы 1937-1939 (воспоминания)" [Years 1937-1939 (memories)] (in Russian). Турклуб МАИ. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Вековой юбилей легенды летных исследований" [Centennial jubilee of the legend of flight research] (in Russian). Ассоциация государственных научных центров РФ. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  8. ^ Zhurin, Anatoly (2016-11-05). "Ровесник Октября и сегодня в строю" (in Russian). Российский героический календарь. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
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  10. ISBN 9785217020591
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  11. ISBN 978-5-392-02512-1
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  12. ^ "The key to a 50-year mystery: Two unspoken words that may have led to Gagarin's crash". TASS. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  13. ISSN 1726-6173. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  14. ^ Pushkaryova, Olga (25 August 2014). "Истинные причины гибели Гагарина скрывали долгие годы: член Госкомиссии по расследованию причин катастрофы" [The Real Causes of Gagarin's Death Have Been Covered for a Long years: Member of the State Commission for the Accident Investigation] (in Russian). Информационное агентство REGNUM. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  15. ^ Smirnov, Anatoly (29 December 2016). "Я не видел себя больше нигде, кроме ЛИИ" [I Did't See Myself Anywhere Else, Except the LII] (in Russian). РИА «Жуковские Вести». Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  16. ^ Directory of Soviet Officials: Science and education. USA CIA, The Directorate of Intelligence. 1987. p. 273.
  17. ^ a b Zhurin, Anatoly (10 November 2017). "Век живи - век летай" [Live a century - Fly a century] (in Russian). АНО «Редакция газеты «Труд». Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  18. ^ a b c Amiryants, Georgy (2001). Летчики-испытатели. Сергей Анохин со товарищи [Test Pilots. Sergey Anokhin with Comrades] (in Russian). Москва: Машиностроение. p. 157.
  19. ^ "Electronic Journal Technical Acoustics: Authors information for the article "Measurement of Volume Performance of Acoustic Fountain"". www.ejta.org/en. Krylov State Research Center. 2016-09-03. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  20. ^ "Психотерапевт Максакова Ольга Арсеньевна" [Maksakova, Olga Arsenyevna, Psychotherapist]. Национальный медицинский исследовательский центр нейрохирургии имени академика Н. Н. Бурденко. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  21. ISSN 2073-9788
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  22. ^ "О награждении знаком отличия "Медаль М.М. Громова" в связи с 70-летием со дня образования Летно-исследовательского института" (in Russian). АО «ЛИИ им. М.М. Громова». 20 April 2011. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-25.

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