Guy Illich Severin (Russian: Га́й Ильи́ч Севери́н, July 24 1926) is an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, who contributed a significant number of publications about life rescue systems and space-suits. General Director and General Designer of the JSC NPP Zvezda.
Biography
In 1949 he graduated from Moscow aviation institute (МАI). Since 1947 he worked in Flight Research Institute named after Michail Gromov (LII) in Zhukovskiy, where he was occupied with researches and flight tests of the aircraft crew rescue systems and in-flight refueling systems.
By a collective of engineers, led by Severin, some major principles and working prototypes of landing systems and rocket emergency escape slides for Vostok spacecraft were done Since 1964 he became the Head designer, General Designer and, eventually, General Director and General Designer of the joint-stock company NPP Zvezda, located in Tomilino. Under his direction, the company developed space-suits, life support systems and rocket emergency escape slides for all USSR/Russia spacecrafts and orbiting space stations, starting from Vostok 1, including the special inflatable EVA airlock of the Voskhod 2, an open space manoeuvring unit, etc. He participated in preparations for the Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts space flights on Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz spacecrafts.
See also
- Guy, Gaii in Wiktionary for his first name explanation
Source
- (Russian) Space-suits of Russia by I.P.Abramov, M.N.Doodnik, V.I. Svershek, G.I.Severin, A.I.Skoog and A.Yu. Stoklitskiy, JSC NPP Zvezda, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-7368-0285-6
