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Arseny Dmitrievich Mironov
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| Арсений Дмитриевич Миронов | |
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| Born | 25 December 1917 |
| Died | 3 July 2019 (aged 101) Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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| Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute (1941) |
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| Years active | 1941–2019 |
| Employer | Gromov Flight Research Institute (1941–2019) |
| Known for | scientist in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing, 8th director of the Gromov Flight Research Institute (1981–1985) |
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Olga E. Rudneva
(m. 1940; died 2017) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Stalin Prize (1948) USSR State Prize (1976) |
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Arseny Dmitrievich Mironov (born December 25, 1917 – died July 3, 2019) was a Russian scientist, aerospace engineer, and aviator. He was a very experienced researcher in how planes fly and how to test them. Mironov was also the leader of the Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI) from 1981 to 1985. He won important awards like the Stalin Prize in 1948 and the USSR State Prize in 1976. He was also an honorary citizen of Zhukovsky.
Mironov helped a lot with airplane design and research at the GFRI. He worked there as a flight test engineer, researcher, and director. He lived to be 100 years old!
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Early Life
Arseny Mironov was born in Vladimir. His father, Dmitry I. Mironov, was an electrical engineer. His mother, Maria Mikhailovna Ilyicheva, was a housewife.
After finishing school, Mironov worked for two years as an electrician in a factory.
Career in Aviation
Starting Out
In 1936, Mironov began studying "Flight Testing" at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI). He finished his studies in 1941. In May 1941, he started working at the Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI).
Scientific Work
At the GFRI, Mironov mostly did engineering and research. He became a flight test engineer just three days before the start of World War II (called the Great Patriotic War in Russia). During the war, he helped with making fighter planes. This included testing them in the air and on the ground to fix any problems.
After the war, Mironov created new ways to study how air moves around planes using small flying models. This helped scientists learn about air pressure on wings at very fast speeds. He also led research at GFRI on how planes affect the air around them, including the loud sound called a sonic boom made by supersonic planes.
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From 1968 to 1975, Mironov worked with V. S. Grachev to study a special wing shape for the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner. They did these studies at GFRI using two special test planes called MiG-21I. Famous test pilots like Igor Volk flew these research flights.
Mironov also helped write the "Aircraft Testing Handbooks." These were official guides for testing military aircraft. He played a big part in helping the Soviet Union work with the International Civil Aviation Organization. This group sets rules for how planes are approved and how much noise they can make, especially for supersonic transport planes.
Mironov was often part of teams that investigated plane accidents. This included the 1968 MiG-15 training flight accident involving Yuri Gagarin. Mironov always used scientific facts to explain accidents, rather than rumors.
Mironov became the head of GFRI's research department. Later, he became the institute's chief from 1981 to 1985. From 1996 until he died in 2019, Mironov worked as a main researcher at GFRI. He focused on how human actions affect flight safety.
Flying Career
Mironov loved aviation and building model planes since he was a child. While at MAI, he learned to fly and got a pilot's license for a U-2 plane. He also learned to fly gliders and made several parachute jumps.
Early in his career at GFRI, Mironov was involved in testing planes as an engineer, navigator, and transport pilot. In 1943, he was in a La-5 test flight that had an accident. Another plane flew too close and crashed into it. Mironov was badly hurt and spent five months in the hospital. This injury made it hard for him to become a test pilot.
However, he still flew planes often, including the Po-2 and Yakovlev UT-1. He completed hundreds of transport flights and earned a pilot's license. Until 1950, he also helped with test flights as a navigator and flight test engineer on planes like the Il-2, Pe-8, Tu-2, and Yak-9.
Mironov's glider training started before the war in Moscow. His instructor was Margarita Ratsenskaya, the wife of famous test pilot Sergey Anokhin. Mironov also became good friends with Oleg Antonov, a famous aircraft designer, because of their shared interest in gliding. Mironov often flew the Antonov A-15 glider.
Family Life
Mironov was married to Olga Yevgenevna Rudneva for 77 years. She was born in 1919 and passed away in 2017. Olga studied in the same class as Arseny at the MAI. She also worked at GFRI as a lead flight test engineer.
They had two children. Their son, Mikhail Mironov, born in 1944, is a scientist who studies sound. Their daughter, Olga Maksakova (Mironova), born in 1946, is a doctor who works in psychotherapy.
Arseny and Olga also had two grandsons and one granddaughter.
Awards and Honors
- Stalin Prize (1948) for creating a new way to research how air moves around planes.
- USSR State Prize (1976) for testing and helping to use the Su-24 tactical bomber.
- Order of Lenin (1971).
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957).
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1966).
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970).
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975).
- Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1985).
- Honoured Aircraft Engineer.
- Master of Sport of the USSR in gliding.
- Zhukovsky Honorary Citizen.
- Gromov Medal: the highest award from the GFRI (2011).
On his 100th birthday in December 2017, Mironov received a special award called the "Medal of Small Arms Maker M.T. Kalashnikov" from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Memorials
Arseny Mironov is buried with his wife Olga at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky.
