Georgy Erichovich Langemak Biography

The memorial plaque in the Kropyvnitsa Langemak Georgy Erikhovich is the chief engineer of the reactive research institute of the RNII of the People’s Commissariat of the defense industry of the USSR in the scientific part, a 1st rank military warfare; Pioneer of missile technology, one of the creators of the Katyusha reactive mortar. Born on July 8, in the city of Starobelsk, Kharkov province, now the Lugansk region of Ukraine in a family of teachers of foreign languages.

Father - Erich Frantsevich Langemak, state adviser to the Ministry of Education, died in the year.

Mother - Maria Konstantinovna Langemak. Despite the fact that his parents on religion were Lutherans, they decided to baptize their son baptized on October 15 on October 15 in the Cathedral-Pokrovsky Church of the city of Starobelsk. However, a questionnaire was recently found, dating from a year in which Langemak entered the other place and date of birth with his hand - on July 21, the city of Elizavetgrad now Kropyvnytsky, Ukraine.

In the year, the Langemakov family moves to Elizavetgrad. In September, he enters the eight -year Elizavetgrad gymnasium, which ends with a silver medal on April 29. In the same year, deciding to devote his life to the study of Japanese philology, he entered the philological faculty of Petrograd University, where he studied for only a few weeks. The plans of the young linguist, who was perfectly in the German and French languages, was not destined to come true - in October he was drafted into the army and was enrolled in the school of warrant officers in the Admiralty.

In the year, Langemak graduated from the school in the first category and, by distribution, hit the Primorsky Front of the Sea Forter of Emperor Peter the Great, the key outpost of the Botnic and Finnish bays. In the summer of the year, by order of the army and navy he was assigned the rank of Michman. During the October Revolution, he was on a battery on the island of Roussaar in Finland and did not take any participation in an armed uprising.

After the October Revolution in the year, Langemak was demobilized from the fleet and went home, in Elizavetgrad, which was controlled by the Gangs of Makhno and Grigoryev. Soon he moved to Odessa and entered the classical department of the Historical and Philology Faculty of Novorossiysk University. He never began his studies, Odessa was worried about the harsh winter and under the leadership of the military governor Grishin-Almazov was preparing for defense from the advancing troops of Ataman Grigoryev, who swore allegiance to the Red Army.

In early April, the city was taken. In the Red Army since July 10 on officer mobilization. As a former fleet officer, he was appointed commander of the battery of the 4th artillery of the Kronstadt fortress, and then the commandant of the Totleben Fort 4th artillery division. In combination, he taught a letter along the line of Likbeza. Candidate for members of the CPSU B since February.

In March, during the Kronstadt rebellion, he refused to join the rebels, was arrested, sentenced to death and released after the elimination of unrest, and already in June he was appointed commander of the 2nd division of artillery and the head of the drill unit. Since January, Langemak has been an assistant to the chief of artillery of the Kronstadt fortress.

In the year he was expelled from the party and removed from party accounting for the wedding in the church. Dzerzhinsky now Rocket Artillery Academy named after Emperor Peter the Great. During his studies, along with other listeners of the Academy under the leadership of the teacher of the Academy S. Serikov, he carried out orders of the laboratory under the leadership of N. Tikhomirov since the year - the GDL gas -dynamic laboratory.

According to the distribution, Langemak was supposed to take the post of chief of artillery of the Black Sea Fleet, but at the personal request of N. Tikhomirov, he was left for work in the State Duma in the GDL Leningrad Military District. In the GDL, Langemak was engaged in the development of reactive shells. In the year, a week before the death of N.

Tikhomirov, B. Petropavlovsky was appointed head of the laboratory, and Langemak became the head of the 1st sector of the powder missiles, to continue the work begun by Tikhomirov. By the year in the USSR, several scientific groups worked in the field of missile equipment. The interests of the case required the creation of a single research base. The proposals of specialists were heard and supported by the head of the Red Army M.

The director of the institute, the head of the gas -dynamic laboratory I. Later, later instead of the post of deputy director of the institute, was introduced the position of chief engineer, to which G. was appointed in January of the year of the year In May, he was awarded the personal military rank of "1st rank warrior." There are such words in it: “Until today, I stubbornly resisted in the testimony ...

But now I decided to abandon the worthless lightening and give the investigation true testimonies about my counter -revolutionary criminal activity ...”. Indications of involvement in the conspiratorial anti -Soviet organization of engineers of the previously arrested I. Kleimenov, S. Korolev and V. were knocked out from Langemak.The indictment of December 31 was based on the only protocol of interrogation, the second copy of which was compiled on the basis of materials provided from the institute, not without the participation of A.

Kostikov, who took Langemak's place after his arrest. Ulrich and members: Divyurist Golyakov and 1st rank military soldier Suslin, the case of G. Langemak was examined on charges of crimes under Art. On the same day, the verdict was carried out. Both daughters were with a grandmother in Leningrad. Later, the youngest daughter of Maya went to her mother in the village of Ermak.

Then they moved to Pavlodar during work at the Institute, Georgy Langemak, almost completed the refinement of the RS of millimeters and PC millimeters, which later became the basis of the Katyusha reactive mortar. In the year, official landfill tests from the Earth, sea vessels and aircraft of 9 types of missile shells of various calibers on a smokeless gunpowder of the structure of B.

Petropavlovsky, G. Langemak and V. together with B. Petropavlovsky, V. Artemiev, N. Vessomirov and Yu. Vessikhovich Erikhovich Langemac were conducted in the year. Law is considered one of the main creators of the Katyusha reactive mortar. During this period, G. Langemak conducted a correspondence with K. Tsiolkovsky, reflecting on the non -united use of missiles, about the possibility of their use in the astronautics.

The term "astronautics" was introduced by the very he. Langemak was completely rehabilitated. In the name of G. Langemak, a crater is named on the back of the moon. For outstanding merits in strengthening the defense power of the Soviet state and a great personal contribution to the creation of domestic reactive weapons by Decree of the President of the USSR of June 21, Langemak Georgy Erikhovich was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor posthumously.

Kleimenov, V. Luzhin, B. Petropavlovsky, B. Elumeer, N. In November, in the Donskoy cemetery of the city of Moscow, after a two -year searches, the exact place of the Burial of Langemak was determined, not far from which his widow was buried. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in the city of Kirovograd Ukraine on the building of the former gymnasium in which G.

Langemak studied, a memorial plaque was installed. Proceedings: 1. Biographical material was provided by Alexei Osorgin, specified by Alexander Glushko.