Rostislav Alexeyev
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Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev （Russian: Ростисла́в Евге́ньевич Алексе́ев; December 18, 1916 – February 9, 1980） was a Russian Soviet Director & Chief of Design known for his pioneering work on hydrofoil ships and ground effect vehicles.
Alexeyev was an accomplished designer of hydrofoil ships, such as the Raketa, and became a prominent developer of ground effect vehicles, particularly the Caspian Sea Monster and the A-90 Orlyonok.
Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev was born on December 18, 1916, in Novozybkov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire （now in Bryansk Oblast, Russia） to an agronomist father and a teacher mother.
In 1933 his family moved to Gorky, and in 1935 enrolled in a shipbuilding course at the Gorky Industrial Institute.
Alexeyev graduated on October 1, 1941, after successfully defending his final thesis on hydrofoils, and was awarded the title of engineer-shipbuilder.
He was sent to work at the Red Sormovo shipbuilding factory, but the entry of the Soviet Union into World War II following the German
invasion of the Soviet Union earlier that year meant the factory was instead manufacturing tanks for the war effort rather than ships.
Alexeyev initially served as a foreman for tank production, but in 1942 was reallocated by the Soviet Navy to developing hydrofoils for combat use.
His designs were not completed by the end of the war in 1945, but the Soviet government maintained interest in them and 340 hydrofoil vessels had been planned by the late 1940s.
Alexeyev continued working on hydrofoils and became chief designer of the Raketa, the first passenger hydrofoil commercially produced in the Soviet Union, which began production in 1957.
The Raketa was pre...
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