Samuel Razumovskiy
Igor Sikorsky
Born in the Russian Empire, Igor Sikorsky Created the first successful helicopter. He was fascinated by aeronautics from a young age. Igor was a psychologist because of his mother and gained a strong love for art and Leonardo da Vinci. He traveled a lot around Europe when he was young. Igor also came to the U.S. and became a school teacher. Which he then proceeded to start his own aerospace company.
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Russian Empire. He had a Russian and noble Polish family background, his father was Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky and his mother Mariya Stefanovna Sikorskaya. During his childhood he gained a love for art from his mother’s home schooling. When he turned eleven Igor went with his father to Germany and became interested in natural science. After coming home, Igor started making flying machines, by the age of twelve he had his own rubber band-powered helicopter. In 1903, at the age of 14, Sikorsky started to study at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Russian Naval Academy. In 1906 he decided he wanted to pursue engineering, so he left...
How would you feel if you defected to another country and spent the rest of your life under Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) protection out of fear of Soviet reprisals? This is exactly what Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko faced in September of 1945 when he and his family defected to Canada. Igor Gouzenko stole over 100 documents that he had accumulated from his time working as a cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. These documents implicated that Canadians were involved in espionage against their own country and detailed the efforts of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Subsequently, I will emphasize Igor Gouzenko’s life, Canada’s involvement in the early Cold War period when he defected to Canada, and his involvement in some of the central events at the beginning of the Cold War in this
After that he went into the Air Force academy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and advanced into a flight leader and training officer which then he got the ranking of a captain. During his duty he was stationed in North America and Europe. Shorty after serving in the air force he went to become an air pilot with Pacific Southline Airlines. Later on he transferred to US airways and stayed with them until he retired from commercial flying in early 2010.
Doolittle was the most accomplished aviator of his generation, from his PhD in aeronautics to his daring stunt flying ca...
-This book was about Velikovsky's claims that incidences in numerous independent cultures around the world were not due to terrestrial origin (i.e. comets and planets caused massive disasters)
The Space Race is remarkably similar to that of the arms race because of the parallel between the creation of the atomic bomb and the goal of reaching the moon. The United States’ bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki effectively established its place as the technologically superior nation; however, major milestones in space achieved early by the Soviets damaged America’s reputation. In 1957, Soviet scientists shocked the world by successfully launching the Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, beyond the Kármán Line (the boundary of space). This amazing breakthrough “rattled American self-confidence. It cast doubts on America’s vaunted scientific superiority and raised some sobering military questions.” This blow to national pride along with the fear that the Soviets could potentially launch ICBMs from space led to “Rocket fever”. The sudden wave of nationalism and the desire to build a space program worthier to that of the Soviet Union led to the...
Igor was born and raised in Oranienbaum. Stravinsky was born on June 17th in 1882. All his life he was surrounded by music. His parents were into music as well, his
Sonny created his own setting. He found interest in rockets when Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite was launched from Russia. Even though Sonny wanted to purs...
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
There are many pioneers who carved the way for the modern aviation industry that we see today. This essay is about the aviation pioneer named Howard Hughes. Howard was raised in a wealthy household. As a young man, he was fascinated with aviation. Instead of sitting in a classroom, he preferred tinkering away on mechanical objects. He was a playboy billionaire who spent a majority of his wealth innovating within the aviation industry and film making. His contributions to aviation seemed boundless. He produced films, set flying records, and was an innovator to some of the world’s first aircraft. He was truly one of the greatest aviators in world history.
As a young boy growing up in northern Michigan I was always obsessed with military aviation. Like many young boys, model aircraft filled my bedroom, everything from P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses to F-15 Eagles and the beloved F-117 Nighthawk. It was really the latter of these aircraft that has driven my career and life thus far, and it is was the acknowledgement of this aircraft that drove me to love the Air Force.
Isaac Asimov is one of the most well known of science fiction writers as well as one of the worlds most prolific writers of any genre. Isaac was born to Anna and Judah Asimov on January 2nd, 1920 (White 3), in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was a a short-lived republic that formed after World War 1. He later emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, with his family when he was only three years old (White 7). While living in Brooklyn, Isaac taught himself to read English before he was five years old, but retained his ability to speak Yiddish. Isaac Asimov's work has shaped science fiction writing into what it is today.
Sergei Rachmaninoff was born on April 1, 1873 in one of the oldest cities in Russia Novgorod. His father was an officer in the Army and his mother was born to a very wealthy family. The Rachmaninoff’s were part of an old aristocracy where the attitude was still there but the money was not. His family was very dysfunctional. His father was a strong alcoholic, which gambled regularly, eventually he lost all of his wife’s money. In 1882 Sergei’s father finally deserted the family Sergei was nine years old.
The idea that a satellite could be put into orbit around the Earth was introduced to the scientific community in 1903. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky showed that this could be done, but his work was all mathematical. In 1948, another Russian named Mikhail Tikhonravov talked to the famed scientist Sergei Korolev about turning this theory into an actual working device. Tikhonravov presented his ideas to the Academy of Artillery Sciences, but they refused to support the project. The Academy president Anatoli Blagonravov, however, could not get the idea that the project would have huge value out of his head. Eventually he brought the p...
Igor’s life at school was lonely he once said that he felt no body had any attraction to him. Igor start piano lessons as a young boy he started studying music and started trying to compose. Though he loved music and his parents knew that they expected Igor to go into law. He attended school at the University of Saint Petersburg but took about 50 classes in the 4 years there. The summer after he stayed with a composer and his family where Rimsky-Korsakov one of the most famous composers of those times suggested that Igor not go into law and take some private lessons instead. Igor’s father died that same year in which Igor had already started spending more time on music than on law. The university was closed for 2 moths because of bloody Sunday. In that that time Igor couldn’t take his final test and got a half diploma after that he switched his focuses completely onto music. Igor continued to take private lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov until Rimsky’s death in 1908. In 1905 he got engaged to his cousin whom he had known sense childhood. Though the church was not happy with marrying first cousins they got married in 1906. They had 2 children soon after born in 1907 and 1908. Igor than put on 2 orchestral works that were heard by a guy planning on presenting Russian ballet and opera’s in Paris he than asked Igor to carry out some orchestras and a full-length ballet.
Throughout the years most country's governments have established some sort of secret police. No matter what the government called it, whether it is the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or her Majesty's secret service (MI6), whatever name the government used, the international term of "secret police" could always be applied. Many agencies of secret police have had their success and failures, some more than others. The KGB, which in English means "the Committee of Public Safety," has had their share of both successes and failures. Most secret police agencies have been used primarily to obtain information from other countries. This was also a primary goal for the KGB, but one of their other goals, which was just as important, was to keep unwanted outside information from the Russian people. This was only one out of many the KGB's objectives. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to prove that the actions of the KGB were, all in all, a success.