A round table on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the outstanding designer of space engineering Chelomey Volodymyr Mykolaevych (30.06.1914 - 12.08.1984) was held at NTUU"KPI".
General Designer of space engineering, AS of the USSR academic, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin Prize and three times winner of the State award of the USSR , member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Professor of Moscow State Technical University of Bauman, V.M.Chelomey studied in the aviation department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1932) and at the Kiev Institute of Aviation, opened in 1933 on the basis of the faculty. It was during his studies, he finally formed as a person, engineer and scientist. He created a pulsating air-rocket engine (ramjet), which was mounted on a number of aircraft. As chief designer of OKB-52 V.Chelomey developed naval cruise missile with folding wings that allowed it to put in small containers, including those in submarines. Under his leadership between 1944-1954 several types of cruise missiles with a ramjet were created. In the second half of the 1960s. Chelomey completed processing the rocket and spacecraft to fly to the moon, as well as a pilot project for an expedition to Mars. Under the leadership of Chelomey the launch vehicles and satellites of the Earth "Proton", "Polet", "Kosmos-1267", the orbital station "Salyut" were developed.
The Vice-Rector of NTUU "KPI" for scientific work NASU academician Mikhail Il'chenko opened the meeting with detailed report "Introducing of V.M.Chelomey to rocketry". He described the importance of scientific activity of Academician Vladimir Chelomey and spoke about its strong start. The Head of the Department of Scientific Information Air and Space Museum of Yu. Kondratyuk ( Poltava) Irina Pistolenko continued the meeting with a report "His way into science V.M.Chelomey started in Poltava." The presentation by the Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering NTUU "KPI" Professor Mykola Bobyr was dedicated to the first achievements of Volodymyr Chelomey as a scientist and engineer . A senior researcher of the Institute Mikola Krischuk did generalizing report on "Scientific achievements of Academician Volodymyr Chelomey." Extremely interesting information, or rather, memories were shared with the audience by Academician Academy of Tsiolkovsky, honored test-pilot of Baikonur Cosmodrome Anatoly Dormidontov and employee DB of V.M.Chelomey in 1962, Secretary of the Dissertation Council of Scientific and Production Association "Engineering" in 1983-1984. Olga Okara. Academician Mikhail Il'chenko summed up the round table results.