At the age of 86, Pavel Kamnev, the scientific director of the Almaz-Antey concern, the developer of the Caliber missiles, died. This was reported to RIA Novosti with reference to the relevant press service.
“The scientific director of Anxiety VKO Almaz-Antey, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation Pavel Kamnev has passed away,” the message says. Causes of death were not specified.
Almaz-Antey noted that Kamnev is one of the pillars of the domestic military-industrial complex.
“He took an active part in the development of many missile systems, carried out scientific and technical management of the most important work on the creation and modernization of dozens of missile weapons of various classes for the Land Forces, Navy, Air Force. It exports weapons for the country’s anti-missile and air defense systems.
Kamnev became scientific director of Almaz-Antey in April 2017. The position was vacant for more than a year after the death of the concern’s previous scientific director, Academician Anatoly Savin, in March 2016.
Before his final appointment, Pavel Kamnev was head of the Novator experimental design bureau – he was the director and general designer of the bureau, which is part of the Almaz-Antey structure. While working on the Novator, Kamnev participated in the creation of the Caliber long-range cruise missiles.
Famous Soviet and Russian designer in the field of rocket science, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, was born in 1937 in Makhachkala, where he graduated from high school with honors. After that, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, which he graduated with honors in 1961.
According to the distribution, Kamnev found a calculation engineer at the MI Kalinin Machine-Building Plant in Sverdlovsk. In 1964 he moved to Novator, the local engineering design firm to which most of his career depended.
Over the years, Kamnev has worked for Novator as an engineer, team leader, head of the design bureau, vice president of the design department, and deputy chief designer. In 1991, he was appointed the first deputy chief designer of the enterprise, which was then an independent design bureau, and in 1996 – the general manager – the general designer.
In Novator, Pavel Kamnev became the author of more than 20 inventions applied in clerical work. He is also the co-author of more than 300 scientific and technical reports such as draft designs, research reports, condition test reports.
The designer’s record includes several dozen awards, including the Order of Honor (granted in 1981) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2007), Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation (2016). He is also a two-time winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997 and 2006).
Pavel Kamnev lived almost all his life in Yekaterinburg.
Source: Gazeta
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