| Peter Dmitrievich Grushin | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 15, 1906 Volsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 29, 1993 (aged 87) USSR |
| Occupation | Chief Designer of MKB Fakel |
Peter Dmitrievich Grushin (Russian: Пётр Дмитриевич Грушин, January 15, 1906, Volsk, Russian Empire — November 29, 1993) was the Soviet rocket scientist, academician of the AS USSR (since 1966).
Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, where he participated in development of MAI Stal' plane (Russian: "Сталь", 1931–1934). Later, he became a Chief designer of KB MAI (1934–1940), where he developed the light bomber BB-MAI and some other designs.[1]
His later aviation design was the heavy long-range fighter IDS (Russian: ИДС), later renamed Gr-1 after Grushin. The plane made first flights in 1940-1941 on Kharkov Aviation Plant (KhAZ) 135 (with Grushin as a Chief designer of KhAZ OKB), but after the war began it was destroyed in an air raid.
Worked as the Chief engineer on the Plant 21 and later as Vice Chief designer of Lavochkin at his design bureau.
He was the Chief developer of a number of air defence systems at KB Fakel (former OKB-2) located in Khimki. This design bureau now bears his name.
For the design of V-750 Dvina missile Grushin was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1958. This missile downed U-2 spy-plane of Francis Powers on May 1, 1960 near Sverdlovsk.
In 1981 he received the second Hero of Socialist Labour award for S-300 missile system.
He was a laureate of Lenin Prize (1963), held 7 Lenin Orders among other awards.