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Anatoli Arkadyevich Blagonravov Russian Scientist. Born 1 June 1894. Died 4 February 1975.

Personal: Male. Born in Russia.

Worked in developing infantry and artillery weapons in World War II, and on rockets afterward. President of the Academy of Artillery Sciences 1946-1950, leading Soviet work on exploration of the upper atmosphere using sounding rockets. As Soviet representative to the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in the early 1960s he was also senior negotiator with NASA's Hugh L. Dryden for cooperative space projects at the height of the Cold War in the early 1960s.

Bibliography:

Pervov, Mikhail, Raketnoye Oruzhiye RVSN, Violanta, Moscow, 1999..
Launius, Roger D, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office Home Page, Web Address when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/index.html.

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