Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov (; 18 January 1872 – 13 March 1919) was a Russian naval engineer and mathematician who became the chief designer of

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s for the

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. He was responsible for designing most submarines of the Russian Navy before the

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of 1917.

Early life and education

Bubnov was born in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

and graduated from the Marine Engineering College in

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in 1891. He graduated from the Nikolayev Naval Academy in 1896.

Career

He initially joined the

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in Saint Petersburg and worked as a constructor on the battleship . In 1900, he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Russian Admiralty test tank and was involved in the design of the first Russian submarine, the . In 1903, he became the Russian Admiralty's submarine designer and was responsible for the following submarine classes: * ''Kasatka'' class * ''Minoga'' * ''Akula'' * ''Morzh'' class * ''Bars'' class In 1904, Bubnov became a lecturer at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. He was commissioned into the Navy in 1907 and was head of the Admiralty test tank between 1908 and 1914. Bubnov was promoted to major general in the Corps of Naval Engineers in 1912. Between 1912 and 1917, he was a consultant to the Baltic Works in Saint Petersburg and the Nobel & Lessner shipyardA joint venture of the Nobel family and the Lessner arms company, established in 1912 to obtain construction contracts for submarines. in Reval. Bubnov died of

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in Petrograd in 1919.

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*''This article is sourced by translation from the Russian Wikipedia''

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