Boris Mikhailovich Malinin (; 13 February 1889 – 27 September 1949) was a Soviet shipbuilding scientist and graduate of Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute. His father was the operatic singer Mikhail Malinin, his mother was the operatic singer Varvara Nikolskaya, and his sister was the famous Soviet navigator

Marina Raskova Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova ( rus, Мари́на Миха́йловна Раско́ва, , mɐˈrʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə rɐˈskovə; née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diplom ...

. From 1926 to 1940, he was the chief designer of the majority of Soviet submarines, including the Dekabrist-class, Leninets-class, Shchuka-class, and Malyutka-class. In 1913 at the age of 24, he designed and built the Bars-class submarine ''Volk'' (; Wolf). Later, in May 1916, under the command of Captain Ivan Messer, the ''Volk'' destroyed three German transports. Beginning on November 4, 1926, under Malinin's leadership the Technical Bureau No.4 managed submarine construction at the

Baltic Shipyard The OJSC Baltic Shipyard (''Baltiysky Zavod'', formerly Shipyard 189 named after Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze) () is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia and is part of United Shipbuilding Corporation today. It is located in Saint Petersburg in th ...

. The name Technical Bureau No.4 was given to the former Submarine Department, and is still a secret department. In subsequent years, 133 submarines were built to the designs developed under Malinin's leadership.SOE CDB ME "Rubin" Website: ''Periods of Activities (1926-1941)''
/ref> In the 1950s the tradition continued when his son K.B. Malinin while serving as a naval officer provided sketches of what would later become the world's first

ballistic missile submarine A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. These submarines became a major weapon system in the Cold War because of their nuclear deterrence capabi ...

s. Along with fellow officers B. F. Vasilyev, V. V. Bashenkov, and N. I. Petelin, their ideas and sketches were the basis of the preliminary specifications drawn up by the Technical Design Bureau (TsKB-16 (Volna)). The bureau's designs included the conversion of six Zulu-class attack submarines to launch

Scud missile A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was exported widely to both Second and Third World countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name attached to the m ...

s; this work led to the design of the

Golf-class Project 629 (, ), also known by the NATO reporting name Golf, was a class of diesel-electric ballistic missile submarines that served in the Soviet Navy. All boats of this class left Soviet service by 1990, and have since been disposed of. Accor ...

ballistic submarine.Norman Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore, ''Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet'' (2003), page 342,

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at www.ckb-rubin.ru 1889 births 1949 deaths Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Stalin Prize Russian mechanical engineers Russian shipbuilders Submarine designers Soviet mechanical engineers Soviet Navy Soviet rehabilitations Graduates of the 5th Moscow Gymnasium {{USSR-engineer-stub