Ivan Kleymenov
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Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov (or Kleymyonov) (Иван Терентьевич Клеймёнов in Russian) (April 13, 1898 - January 10, 1938) was a Soviet scientist and one of the founders of the Soviet rocketry.
Ivan Kleymenov graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in 1928. In 1932-1933, he headed the Gas Dynamics Laboratory and then was appointed director of the Jet Institute.
In 1937 he was arrested on unknown grounds and sentenced to death basing on false confessions forced from other people, including Georgy Langemak. In 1955 he was rehabilitated "due to the lack of a criminal matter" and awarded Hero of Socialist Labor (1991).
A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after Ivan Kleymenov.
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