BORIS RABINOVICH

Boris Isaakovich Rabinovich (06/23/1924 – 01/20/2010) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of rocket and spacecraft dynamics, the author of fundamental research in the field of rocket and space technology. Chief Researcher at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Participant of the Great Patriotic War.

In 1948, he graduated from the Engineering Faculty of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy with a degree in aircraft and aircraft Engines. Then he served in combat units, served in the 4th Central Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Defense, received the rank of engineer-lieutenant colonel. In 1960, he became the head of the NII-88 Dynamics Laboratory (modern TsNIIMash). In 1974, he became the head of the Dynamics department at VNIIPI Transprogress. Since 1993, he has worked at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a chief researcher.

B.I. Rabinovich made a great personal contribution to the development of methods for calculating the dynamics and stabilization of ballistic missiles, launch vehicles and spacecraft, taking into account the mobility of liquid fuel components and the elasticity of structural elements. He actively participated in the development and flight testing of a number of RCT facilities, starting with the first Russian ballistic missiles R-1 and R-2 and ending with heavy launch vehicles "Proton", 8K78, N-1, UR-700, as well as a number of spacecraft (E-6, L–1, L–3, etc.). He made a significant contribution to the development of intermediate-range ballistic missiles and intercontinental missiles 8K63, 8K65, 8K64, R-9, 8K67, 8K69, 15A14, UR-200, UR-500, UR-100. He is the author and co-author of 12 monographs and more than 200 articles published in the publishing houses of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as in leading foreign journals. His book "Introduction to the Dynamics of spacecraft Launch Vehicles", Moscow: Mashinostroenie, which has gone through two editions (the last in 1983), is still a desktop book for specialists in rocket and space technology.

B.I. Rabinovich took an active part in the development of the first Russian experimental systems of high-speed ground transport on a magnetic suspension, and in recent years he has been engaged in various aspects of satellite and spacecraft dynamics with the original magnetohydrodynamic element in the control circuit proposed by him. The results obtained in this direction, published in industry journals and publications of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the latest publications date back to 2006), open up the prospect of creating a swing-free and cost-free working body of executive elements for the orientation and stabilization systems of a new generation satellite and spacecraft.

Extensive research on the dynamics of deformable systems allowed B.I.Rabinovich to contribute also to areas not directly related to RCT, in particular, to the problems of dynamics, stability and quantization of rings consisting of magnetized plasma rotating around a central body.

At the same time as his active scientific activity, he taught at Phystech, MIIT, and the Milan Polytechnic Institute over the years.