Nikolai Kamov (engineer)

Nikolai Ilyich Kamov (Никола́й Ильи́ч Ка́мов; 14 September 1902 24 November 1973) was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design of helicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.

Biography
Kamov was born in a Russian family, in Irkutsk, but lived in Tomsk until his death on November 24, 1973 in Moscow. He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University with an engineering degree in 1923.

Kamov worked with Dmitry Grigorovich and later - for TsAGI. In 1940, he was assigned to establish the new helicopter OKB which was later named after him.

Memory

 * Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
 * Since 1992 one of the two main Soviet-Russian helicopter manufacturers bears a surname of Nikolai Kamov