Rogozin Oleg Konstantinovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Born on October 31, 1929 in Moscow. Father - aeronautical engineer, associate Professor MAI Konstantin Rogozin (during the war were sent to Leningrad the chief engineer on the restoration of the battleship "Marat" in German air RAID ran aground, but continued despite the attacks of the Nazis to cover the approaches to the besieged city of their main gauges). Mother-hereditary Smolensk noblewoman Natalia Borisovna Mitkevich-Zholtok. Rogozin in 1943, at the age of 14, ran away to the front and was accepted for military service as a cabin boy in the 9th detachment of the special purpose underwater work Expedition (9th EPRON detachment) The Dnieper flotilla. Participated in the operation to liberate the city of Smolensk in 1943. His unit was engaged in lifting and clearing the Dnieper forvator from the flooded during its crossing of the river of military equipment and mine clearance. Due to a serious infectious disease, he was sent to a hospital in Moscow, and then returned to his family. Here is what Oleg Konstantinovich remembered about it: "There, in Smolensk, I felt the "smell of war", its devastating and merciless consequences and realized that only military force and the great spirit of patriotism of the entire people can resist its horrors and destruction. It is these truths of human existence that the Great Patriotic war taught our generation." After discharge from the hospital, from 1943 to 1947, he worked as a mechanic at the plant No. 339 of the people's Commissariat of aviation industry. Combining work with study, he graduated from the evening school of working youth. In 1947, he got a job as a mechanic for precision instruments At the Institute of automation under the all-Union Council of scientific and engineering societies in the Department headed by G. N. Babkin, the future Chief designer of the Lavochkin design Bureau. At the same time, the world-famous S. p. Korolev, V. N. Chelomey, and S. A. Lebedev worked at the Institute. After graduating from the Third Moscow Aero club, he entered the first Orenburg Chkalov military aviation school. There, cadet pilot Oleg Rogozin meets his future wife, Tamara. They lived happily together for 53 years. At the O. K. school Rogozin qualified as a military ground-attack pilot and, as a sign of encouragement for excellent results, was left at the School as an instructor pilot. In 1954, he entered the Zhukovsky Air force engineering Academy. After graduating with honors in 1959, he was appointed a military representative to the plant No. 500 of the USSR Ministry of aviation Industry (now the Moscow machine-building enterprise named after V. V. Chernyshev, UEC). Since 1961-military representative, senior military representative in the Tushino engine-building Bureau "Soyuz". In 1971, Oleg Konstantinovich was appointed Deputy head of the Department of experimental construction and serial orders of the Central office of the air force of the Ministry of defense of the USSR. Military representatives supervised the development and production of aircraft samples, as well as various components of aircraft, including the su-24, MiG-23M, Il-76, su-27, MiG-29, MiG-31, Tu-160, an-124, su-25, Ka-25. In 1974, O. K. Rogozin was appointed first Deputy head Of the Department of experimental construction and serial orders of the Air force, responsible for organizing new developments in aviation technology and monitoring the progress of their implementation. From 1975 to 1982, he was the head of this Department. From 1982 to 1990, he headed the Department of advanced research and weapons programs of the armament Service of the USSR Ministry of defense. First Deputy chief of armament of the USSR Ministry of defense, Chairman of the Interdepartmental scientific coordination Council under The state Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on military-industrial issues (MIC USSR). A prominent organizer of the Soviet Union's military industry, and a developer of modern weapons theory. After serving in the armed forces of the USSR for more than 40 years, after retiring in 1990, doctor of technical Sciences, Professor, retired Lieutenant General O. K. Rogozin joined the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Russia) as a leading researcher. He devoted his scientific works to the theory of deterring external aggression, preserving the scientific and technical Foundation for the future revival of the Russian military-industrial complex. Winner of the state prize of the USSR, holder of the orders of Lenin, the October revolution, and the red banner of Labor. He died after a serious illness on March 24, 2010. In the Orenburg cadet school, located in the building of the former flight school, a training class is named after military pilot Oleg Konstantinovich Rogozin.