Vladimir Barmin

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| employer = GSKB Spetsmash

| significant_projects = Soviet space program

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Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin ({{langx|ru|Владимир Павлович Бармин}}; {{OldStyleDate|4 March|1909|17 March 1909}} – 17 July 1993) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who is remembered for being the designer of the first Soviet rocket launch complexes in the Soviet space program.

An asteroid, 22254 Vladbarmin, was named in his honor.

Biography

Barmin was born in {{OldStyleDate|4 March|1909|17 March 1909}} in Moscow, Russia.{{rp|436}}{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Rex |last2=Shayler |first2=David |title=Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft |date=7 May 2003 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-85233-657-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbGchpi1HP8C&dq=vladimir+barmin+born&pg=PA439 |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=en}} He was educated in mechanical engineering topics involving in thermodynamics, refrigeration, compressor and heat exchangers at the MVTU and later specialized in refrigeration from the Moscow Mechanical Institute.{{cite web |title=Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/barmin.htm |website=www.globalsecurity.org |access-date=23 September 2023}} Sponsored by the Soviet politician, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Barmin paid a visit to the United States in 1935–36 to learn about refrigeration to help develop the production of fridges to be widely used in everyday life in Russia.

Upon returning to Russia in 1936, Barmin helped established a factory for domestic production compressor construction and refrigeration engineering. In 1942-44, Barmin was involved in war efforts against Germany and worked on a first Katyusha rocket launcher project for the Red Army. Furthermore, he was involved in developing rocket propellents and compressor for Soviet rockets and artillery ammunitions for the Red army during easter front of the World War II.

Over several decades and years of his life, Barmin was associated with the construction of the space launch complexes in the Baikonur Cosmodrome as part of the Soviet space program.

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Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (1956)
Lenin Prize (1957)
Stalin Prize (1943)
USSR State Prize, three times (1967, 1977, 1985)
Six Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of Kutuzov 1st class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Vladimir Barmin

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