Sergey Nepobedimiy

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Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimiy
Born	September 13, 1921 (1921-09-13) (age 86) Ryazan, USSR
Occupation	engineer at CNIIAG
Spouse	Lora Ivanovna Nepobedimaya (Kuvshinova, 1923 — 1997)
Children	daughter - Nataliya Sergeevna Fokina (Nepobedimaya, b. 1943)

Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimiy (b. September 13, 1921, Ryazan, USSR) is a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989).

He graduated from MSTU named after N. E. Bauman in 1945 and was directed to the work at SKB-101 (KBM, currently FSUE «KB Mashinostroyeniya») of Boris Ivanovich Shavirin.

Strela-2 was designed under the lead of Nepobedimiy in 1968

He was the principal constructor of:

anti-tank systems «Shmel» (1960), «Malyutka» (1963) and later, the semi-automatic «Malyutka-P» (1969);
«Strela-2» (1968), «Strela-2M» (1970), «Strela-3» (1974), «Igla-1» (1981), «Igla» (1983);
supersonic anti-tank guided rocket system «Sturm» - «Sturm-B» for the helicopters (1976) and «Sturm-C» for the vehicles (1978); «Ataka» (seriously modernized «Sturm») and first double-channeled Khrizantema.
tactical rocket complexes TRK "Tochka" - with SBCh, OFBCh (1975), with KBCh (1977), with G (1979), with F-R (1982) and Tochka-U (1988), operative-tactical rocket complex OTRK "Oka" (1980).
active armored vehicle defence system KAZ "Arena"

In 1989 after the INF Treaty, which eliminated all Soviet OTRK "Oka" (though formally they were not mentioned in the treaty) Nepobedimiy steped down as Chief Designer and retired from KBM.

Since 1990 is working in the Moscow Central Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Hydraulics, also the Chief of the scientific and technical center "REAGENT"

He is an author of more than 350 scientific works, patents and one discovery.