Eugene Michael Gluhareff (April 5, 1916 – July 15, 1994) was born in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(now known as St. Petersburg),

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and moved to the

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in 1924. Gluhareff was an

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, the son of Michael Gluhareff of

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. He is much acclaimed for his pioneering work on

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s, inventor of the Gluhareff Pressure Jet and was a contributor to the American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep.

Early life

Eugene M. Gluhareff was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1916, was the oldest of two children, born to Michael E. Gluhareff and Antonina Gluhareff. His father, Michael E. Gluhareff was an aircraft engineer who was a former Chief engineer at the