Boris E. Chertok
contributorEngineering & Vehicle Design
Electrical engineer and deputy chief designer whose guidance, control, and systems work spanned the R-7, early spacecraft, Soyuz, and Soviet space stations.
- Primary role
- Soviet guidance and control systems engineer
- Lifespan
- 1912–2011
- Relationships
- 11
- Sources
- 3
Biography
Place in spaceflight history
Chertok developed missile and spacecraft control systems, worked closely with Korolev, and later documented the engineering and organizational history of the Soviet space program.
His technical career and detailed memoirs preserve an unusually broad engineering view of Soviet human-spaceflight development.
Boris E. Chertok’s archive record spans Electrical engineer, Guidance-system designer, Deputy chief designer through work connected with NII-88, OKB-1, NPO Energia. The linked record places that work within R-7, Sputnik, Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, Salyut.
Career profile
Roles, organizations, and programs
Roles
- Electrical engineer
- Guidance-system designer
- Deputy chief designer
Organizations
Programs
- R-7
- Sputnik
- Vostok
- Voskhod
- Soyuz
- Salyut
Archive relationships
Named records, programs, and organizations connected to this archive identity.
- Vostok 1Helped lead control-system engineering for the launch and spacecraft organization behind the first human spaceflight
- Soyuz 1Served in design-bureau leadership during early Soyuz development
- NII-88Canonical organization
- OKB-1Canonical organization
- NPO EnergiaCanonical organization
- R-7Spaceflight program
- SputnikSpaceflight program
- VostokSpaceflight program
- VoskhodSpaceflight program
- SoyuzSpaceflight program
- SalyutSpaceflight program
Sources
Original references supporting this record. Each source opens on its publisher’s website.