| Mikhail Borisovich Dobriyan | |
|---|---|
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| Born | (1947-06-26)26 June 1947 Frunze, Soviet Union |
| Died | 16 October 2013(2013-10-16) (aged 66) Moscow, Russia |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Engineering (mechanics) |
| Institutions | Russian Space Research Institute |
Mikhail Borisovich Dobriyan (Russian: Михаил Борисович Добриян; 26 June 1947 – 16 November 2013), was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Tarusa. He was one of the leading figures in the programs of the International Astrophysical Observatory GRANAT and Vega program. He was a head of Tarussky District and an honorary citizen of the city of Tarusa. A street there is named in his honor, and a memorial is dedicated to his memory.
Other awards
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
- Medal of Sergey Korolev
- Medal "For Battle Merit"
References
- List of directors of the SKB KP IKI RAN Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today
- Social-political newspaper of the Tarusa loc. gov. «October». Tarusa, April 2011
- Contacts msu-russia.ru
- List of the Tarusian honorary citizens
- Honoring of a Very Important Tarusian
- Celebration of 768 years of Tarusa Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Opening of the Memorial dedicated to the memory of Mikhail B. Dobriyan.