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Sputnik Biographies--Sergei P. Korolev (1906-1966) - NASA Korolev was saved by the intervention of senior aircraft designer Sergei Tupolev, himself a prisoner, who requested his services in the TsKB-39 sharashka Following the war, Korolev was released from prison and appointed Chief Constructor for development of a long-range ballistic missile
Sergei Korolev - Wikipedia Arrested on a false official charge as a "member of an anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organization" (which would later be reduced to "saboteur of military technology"), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years, including a few months in a Kolyma labour camp
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev - NASA He was released from prison and began to work on rockets that would eventually carry payloads into space Korolev was responsible for the Sputnik program which in 1957 launched the first artificial satellite into orbit
Sergei P. Korolev - New Mexico Museum of Space History Following the end of World War II, Korolev was released from prison and sent to Germany to study the Nazi’s V-2 rocket and other technology In August 1946, he was appointed Chief Constructor for development of a long-range ballistic missile and the next year promoted to Chief Designer
Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after . . . That day, according to NKVD officer’s Interrogation Report, Sergei Korolev suddenly became “Russian” Korolev was sentenced to 10 years’ of hard labor at the Kolyma gold mine, the most notorious of all Gulag prison camps One year later though, at the end of 1939, he was sent back to Moscow
Sergei Korolev Biography: Path of Space Genius - Orbital Today In the summer of 1944, Sergei Korolev was released early from prison for services to his homeland A year later, he was sent to the Soviet zone of Germany to study captured rocket technology
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) - Find a Grave Memorial Following release from prison in 1944 he was transferred to Germany to study captured German rocket technology Following his return to Moscow in 1947 he was placed in charge of Soviet rocket technology and development
Sergei Korolev - RussianSpaceWeb. com On June 27, 1938, at the height of Stalin's purges, Korolev was arrested and sent to concentration camps in Siberia, in the region of the Kolyma River Korolev fateful roller coaster continued in March 1940, when he was suddenly returned to Moscow and imprisoned in the infamous Butyrskaya prison