Andronik Iosifyan
Andranik Gevondovich Iosifyan was a Soviet Armenian scientist in the field of electrical engineering.
He is known as one of the founders of missilery, the chief constructor of the first Soviet Meteor meteorological satellites of earth, and the father of electromechanics in USSR. Iosifyan is the founder and the first director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics – the USSR's largest scientific research institute of electromechanics.
Being one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production, Andranik Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's classified chief constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka by Sergei Korolev and the Vostok spacecraft. One of Iosifyan's most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology.
Sergei Korolev called him the "chief electrician" of missile technology.
