Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (russian: Серге́й Па́влович Непобеди́мый; 13 September 1921 – 11 April 2014) was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the

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Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in

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, he graduated from

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

in 1945 and was directed to the work at ''SKB-101'' (''KBM'', currently FSUE «

KB Mashinostroyeniya KB Mashinostroyeniya or KBM for short (russian: КБ Машиностроения, КБМ, , Machine-Building Design Bureau) is a state defence enterprise, scientific and design R&D centre specialised in missile systems located in Kolomna, Moscow ...

») of Boris Shavyrin. He was the principal designer of: * anti-tank systems « Shmel» (1960), «

Malyutka The 9M14 Malyutka (russian: Малютка, links=no; "Little one", NATO reporting name: AT-3 Sagger) is a manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) wire-guided anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system developed in the Soviet Union. It was the fir ...

» (1963) and later, the semi-automatic «Malyutka-P» (1969); * «

Strela-2 The 9K32 Strela-2 (russian: Cтрела, "arrow"; NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a light-weight, shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile (or MANPADS) system. It is designed to target aircraft at low altitudes with passive infrared homing gu ...

» (1968), «Strela-2M» (1970), «

Strela-3 The 9K34 Strela-3 (russian: 9К34 «Стрела-3», 'arrow', NATO reporting name: SA-14 Gremlin) is a man-portable air defense missile system (MANPADS) developed in the Soviet Union as a response to the poor performance of the earlier Strela 2, ...

» (1974), «Igla-1» (1981), « Igla» (1983); * supersonic anti-tank guided rocket system «Sturm» - «Sturm-B» for the helicopters (1976) and «Sturm-C» for the vehicles (1978); « Ataka» (seriously modernized «

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») and first double-channeled

Khrizantema The 9M123 Khrizantema (russian: "Хризантема"; en, Chrysanthemum, NATO reporting name AT-15 Springer) is a Russian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Khrizantema was designed to deal with current and future generations of main battle tanks ...

. * tactical rocket complexes TRK "Tochka" - with SBCh, OFBCh (1975), with KBCh (1977), with G (1979), with F-R (1982) and Tochka-U (1988), operative-tactical rocket complex OTRK "Oka" (1980). * active armored vehicle defence system KAZ "Arena" Besides, he initiated the design work on Iskander missiles, which was begun in December 1988. In 1989, after the

INF Treaty The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles; / ДРСМ� ...

that eliminated all Soviet OTRK "Oka" (though formally they were not mentioned in the treaty), Nepobedimy stepped down as Chief Designer and retired from KBM. From 1990 until his death he worked in the Moscow Central Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Hydraulics ad as the Chief of the scientific and technical center "REAGENT". He was the author of more than 350 scientific works, patents and one discovery. Sergey Nepobedimy died in Kolomna in April 2014 and was buried at the

Federal Military Memorial Cemetery The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery (Russian: Федеральное военное мемориальное кладбище) is a national cemetery of Russia, located in Mytishchinsky District, Moscow Oblast, on the north-eastern outskirts ...

.На 93-м году скончался ракетный конструктор Сергей Непобедимый
ntv.ru, 11 April 2014.

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