Grigori tokat biography of albert

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Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev was a rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin"s Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.

Grigori tokat biography of albert

Career

During World World War II he served as Head of Aeronautics Laboratory, Zhukovsky Academy 1938-1941. After receiving his doctorate in technical sciences in 1941, he continued to lecture at the Zhukovsky Academy while simultaneously working as Acting Head of the Department of Aviation at the Moscow Engineering Institute.

One of his tasks was to study the possibility of developing a medium-range winged rocket, but when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 and rapidly overran the Soviet front-line forces, the Academy"s staff was evacuated to Sverdlovsk in the Urals.

Tokaty returned to Moscow during the Battle of Moscow, and later flew in bombing raids over Stalingrad, using American bombers delivered through lend-lease.

By the end of the Second World War, he had