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In the secret depths   绝密深度

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta", № 4975 (151)

on August 14, 2009, Aleksander Emelianenko



What are the prospects for missile complex Bulava? What is the situation in the submerged ship? Where to train crews of nuclear submarines? This not only correspondent "RG" talks with the general designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau, the creator of three generations of missile submarines Academician Sergei Kovalev.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Sergey N., know that you are experiencing acute problems arising from the creators of a missile complex Bulava, but optimism remains intact. And how do you assess the current situation in the submerged ship?

Sergei Kovalev: a coherent national strategy here is not yet clear. There are separate presidential program, one of which we are building a strategic missile carriers. At one time they got into a presidential decree on the maintenance and development of naval strategic weapons. In recent years the most important task was to repair submarines of Project 667 BDRM.

WP: Missile boats of this series was considered, as they say, the heads of the recent talks of President Medvedev and Obama in Moscow.

Kovalev: Now this part of the program is completed - already the sixth ship is updated in the center of repair "Star". Another trend - the construction of missile series "Northwind" and the creation of their new naval missile "Bulava".

WP: On your memory practiced several generations of missiles for the Navy. As is usually done? And with what was due to hold trials of the Bulava directly from a submarine?

Kovalev: Usually the first stage - start-up models of rockets from the flooded floating stand. This was done in Balaklava. Thus tested a missile submarine is part of the trajectory and how it reaches the surface. After that, the same tests done already on the move - on some refurbished boat.

Then, on the ground in Nenoksa with ground tests a certain number of times fired a missile at a distance. In general, a large program was. The launches were successful, and was said to be partially successful. Or - partially unsuccessful. It was worked out incredibly complex technique.

RG: And if something wrong?

Kovalev: acquainted, have made some adjustments. Sometimes, that is one problem left, but there might be another. And knew about it only those to whom it should be. The press in this case, I want to see, not dedicated.

Once recruited the positive statistics launches with ground tests, did conclude that the missile had already developed, and it was allowed to load on the submarine. Since then have been held so-called joint flight tests. That is the test of the submarine were combined at a time of testing missile system. When statistics launches convinced that the missile is flying normally, missile system, along with the submarine was taken into service.

RG: Why the "club" all twisted?

Kovalev: Because it was no longer submerged booth in Balaklava. And Nenoksa no conditions to let the rocket from the shore.

WP: Write a necessary stand and a new mine has not had time?

Kovalev: First, do not have time to. And secondly, there was no money.

RG: That's why, and refused to working off the ground?

Kovalev: Not only on the ground, but also from startups to submerged floating stand. Start shooting straight from the submarine, we have proposed because they were sure: with the ship did not happen even if the rocket explodes at startup. Such a precedent has already been one of the orders: nearly 100-ton rocket collapsed and caught fire right in the pit - and the boat is nothing ...

We bring great harm to the reduction or even total elimination of the apparatus of military missions in enterprises supplying equipment for missiles as well as for submarines. We have had cases of unsuccessful launches due to the supply of substandard parts, which before the military would not have missed.

A panicmongers

WG: You have gone to sea with the crew of "Dmitry Donskoy" at the very first, and almost all subsequent launches of the Bulava. How do you allow?

Kovalev: (throws up his eyebrows) And who could not afford?

RG: But you - the general designer. For security reasons, and taking into account your age "from above" to order: Sergei Nikitich - on a ship security. As they say, from harm's way ...

Kovalev: No, you know, somehow I myself used to dispose of themselves. And then, mind you, we do not do tricks. Tests carried out not in order to check whether the firm does not crush the hull by water pressure, not votknetsya whether the boat's nose into the ground ...

RG: This is calculated on all models, and deliberately excluded?

Kovalev: In another simply can not be. For example, when deciding on the deep dive, we're not going to it, to see how it is - broken or not broken. We believe a hundred percent that will not break. But somewhere may be heightened tension - we measure the, somewhere may be leaking. And, of course, another story - testing new weapons.

WP: Cozdateli Bulava from the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering during the test launches were with you on the "Dmitry Donskoy"?

Kovalev: The boat had been Deputy Chairmen Yuri Solomon. And he watched as a rule, with surface ships.

RG: It was important to see the rocket go?

Kovalev: How to go - this time. And secondly, there quicker you can get information from the Coast telemetry, which records the flight of a rocket: the first stage separated, the second stage ... While in the boat he did not receive.

As for the public evaluation and participation of the press, it is not always useful. When we fired Nenoksa (a number of test launches have been much higher), know about it, no one knew. Well flew rocket or bad - this case general designer of the rocket. If she flew not so wrong, he should understand, because of what happened. We should not dramatize the situation, if we came to the last decisive battle and lost ...

WP: Fight did not last?

Kovalev: Yes, this is not a battle, and the development of sophisticated missile technology. Very difficult.

RG: And when they write that the Americans making fun of us? Simply put, make a fool Bulava brains affect her noncontact way - using powerful radar, laser beams, etc.

Kovalev: Yes, all this nonsense. There was and no one else has such capabilities.

RG: And what answer the reproaches critics of the new rockets, which argued that it has no stockpile modernization? Yes, and throw the load for the Bulava is much less than the development Makeyev State Rocket Center ...

Kovalev: So the rocket is not one hundred tons, and thirty. Bulava, no doubt, much more sophisticated missiles. Although we lag behind in electronics, it is built on a much more sophisticated materials, on the other element basis. Solid rockets are flying around the world. Flies Topol. And the "Bulava", I am sure that will fly.

In the 81-m, when it was drafted receiving report on the transfer of the head of the submarine fleet to 941-year project - is the current "Dmitry Donskoy", ready to launch for him, too, was not. Complex D-19 is being followed with a ground stand in Nenoksa. A missile launching from the submarine began only in 82-m. In the same year, they have adopted and approved the acceptance certificate on the lead ship. This is very few people know, and in the press endlessly repeating: Lead boat is almost ready, the other on the approach, and the missiles to them yet. So in advance never been!

In the pressure hull

RG: Not so long ago we published in the newspaper your picture made on board the "Dmitry Donskoy" during the regular tests. One of the readers immediately responded: "I know why SN eyes so sad. He remembered his catch phrase:" We will complete our poor knowledge of "good" and "excellent". You really said so?

Kovalev: Not quite. I said that on the worst in the world built drawings of the world's best submarines. It happens that when the boat is handed over, forget about us. At the factory they say: we have built a ship. And like KB as innocent. And when trouble in the building, shouting: Plant at anything, it's "Ruby" in the drawings screwed ...

RG: A knowledge, training of crews as a comment on this? It differs from the current young generation of those who mastered the first nuclear submarine?

Kovalev: Recently, I went to sea only to "Dmitry Donskoy". Previously, there was a commander Arkady Romanov, and now Oleg Tsybin. They have a great crew. But I was particularly bad in the crews did not have to fall. Training of personnel on strategic boat - I can not talk about all submarine fleet - generally good. And the commanders - very smart guys.

RG: They're already in your grandchildren are suitable?

Kovalev: Approximately so. My eldest grandson Nikita thirty-five. At the submarine simply not enough to be technically literate and disciplined officer. Looking for a great vision, erudition, volitional qualities. This was the first commander of the "Sharks" Alexander Ol'khovikov.

RG: He became a Hero of the Soviet Union until the collapse of the Soviet Union commanded a naval training center at Paldiski?

Kovalev: Yes, I had been. And I must say that the simulator and training and material base, which was once established in Paldiski, and then moved to Obninsk, in full has not yet been restored. And without this can not organize comprehensive training crews for service on ships of the fourth generation of "Yuri Dolgoruky.

WP: Sami submariners about "Dolgoruky say that in his review of the bridge is too small - moored awkward ...

Kovalev: This will tell you about any of the submarine. In my projects - just as the commander of mooring not see either the nose or stern. If he wants to actually see, given the opportunity to get to the roof of the fence - raised rail, from there you can watch and monitor. And the "Boreas", if necessary, such a thing will be done. But when to adjust the voyage, no one on the bridge, the roof is not climbing. Because the commander knows what makes mooring team in the nose, making it in the stern.

As the sailor Emperor

WG: You have a lot of years to create weapons. Never caught myself thinking that in this life could be doing something more useful to people?

Kovalev: The most useful for people - is that there is no war, and there is peace. This, unfortunately, does not depend on us. Can not raise the question as you put it: better for everyone to breed nezabudok. Established in CCCR defense complex and the people who work in it, to prevent war, which literally hung.

RG: And when all angles have to repeat that we are thereby ruined the country: boats, missiles, aircraft - eventually came to a broken trough in the early 90's ...

Kovalev: It's all distorted. First one, then in another direction. The costs of defense were very large - and we and the Americans. Another thing is that our economy has been ineffective.

RG: At the time, when it became obvious you hold a high position in the MIC, with your opinion, were considered. Can you explain how it happened that our shipbuilding - a unified and managed industry - crumbled into little pieces? And along with it and Obschemash - Office, where did the rocket.

Kovalev: This talk is - useless. When proclaimed a new way of thinking, began to say that we will share forget-me-not missiles. And that the arms trade - immoral occupation. Press resisted: here are building an aircraft carrier, and how much it costs? And if it does not build, and distribute the money on how many rubles each received ... In short, the idiocy was complete. Nobody thought about, and where work will be the man who was not told to continue to build aircraft carriers.

RG: But you could build tankers, fishing boats, cruise ships, in the end ...

Kovalev: It's all because of wishful thinking. And what we have seen in practice? One after another went to the reorganization of public administration. They wanted to drastically reduce the administrative apparatus, and ended with the fact that he had grown worse than ever. And most importantly - these people as managers completely ineffective.

RG: A year ago created the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Its St. Petersburg office is located in a building "Rubin". This decision, according to you, with a plus sign? Will benefit from it or not?

Kovalev: (Long pause.) Do not know. While I can not imagine their roles - which are likely to lead, where they will have money. Themselves to earn? But now, in times of crisis, it's hard to imagine. Because competition in the shipbuilding industry with countries such as South Korea, still can not. Our performance is not what the climate is not the same. And just a huge distance within the state. We have, wherever you look at it, get more expensive.

WP: USC President Vladimir Pakhomov said that to catch up and compete with Korea - a goal not worth it. But collaborate with them, learn from experience - is another matter. And the Koreans, it might be interesting, because in the face of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, they get certain assurances from the state. It is not separate companies go to foreign markets, and attempt to gather in one fist all the shipbuilding capabilities ...

Kovalev: No, not really, we have collected. Not very. There are already fully formed private entities ...

RG: But the general direction of picking the right assets? Or we should leave, how was it? Suppose further Amur plant remains in the free swimming, freed Kaliningrad Yantar shipyard and those that have long been privatized in St. Petersburg?

Kovalev: You remember how it all started. This is not shipbuilding. This monetozarabatyvanie. Everyone looks at where that can grab. One takes up some work, others think it is more profitable to sell the equipment. Therefore, how to make a system that is being created, I do not know and do not want to speculate.

RG: But the veteran submarine Eric Kovalev in the preface to your book, "The fact that there was ..." expressed quite clearly: that all was right in shipbuilding and in the right direction was developed, it is necessary to reconstruct structures such as the former military-industrial complex and headed by Sergei Kovalev - with the powers the vice-premier. How do you feel about that?

Kovalev: I think that at my age today's post is less than the emperor will not do.

Business Card

Kovalev Sergey N. in 1958 led to the CDB-18 (now the CDB ME "Rubin") work to create a nuclear submarine project 658. And since the primary, and since 1983 - chief designer of nuclear submarines and submarine strategic cruisers, armed with ballistic missiles. In 1971 he began to design a heavy nuclear submarine project 941 Akula. In the battle of the adopted six such ships, which are rightly considered the most powerful in the world. Total project SN Kovaleva built 92 submarines.

Academician, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, in 2007 awarded the State Prize of Russia.

Even in adulthood seriously took up painting. Admitted to the Union of Artists of Russia.

By the way

SEVMASH where Sergey N. traveled on business countless times, and where it happened for half a year lived without a break, decided to organize his solo exhibition.

But the models of missile submarines, built by shipbuilders of his projects, and of landscapes, still lifes and portraits, written by the designer. Shortly before The St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Artists of Russia adopted academician Kovalev in their ranks.

Exposition of the two dozen paintings placed in the museum Sevmash and nervously awaited the author - like it? He appeared on the threshold of a strictly defined time.

- Here, Sergey N. - your pictures ...

- How much? - A single word instantly defuse the situation.

Then I learned that after two rarity collection of "Anecdotes of Academician" and his own book-reflection on the fact that there was ... " in the Rubin Central Design Bureau came poetic works - "Letters grandchildren. Author of poems and drawings to them - Sergei Kovalev.

Editor

Tomorrow general designer Rubin Central Design Bureau "Academician Sergei Kovalev is the 90 years. "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" warmly congratulates Sergei Nikitich on the significant jubilee

In the secret depths   绝密深度

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta", № 4975 (151)

on August 14, 2009, Aleksander Emelianenko



What are the prospects for missile complex Bulava? What is the situation in the submerged ship? Where to train crews of nuclear submarines? This not only correspondent "RG" talks with the general designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau, the creator of three generations of missile submarines Academician Sergei Kovalev.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Sergey N., know that you are experiencing acute problems arising from the creators of a missile complex Bulava, but optimism remains intact. And how do you assess the current situation in the submerged ship?

Sergei Kovalev: a coherent national strategy here is not yet clear. There are separate presidential program, one of which we are building a strategic missile carriers. At one time they got into a presidential decree on the maintenance and development of naval strategic weapons. In recent years the most important task was to repair submarines of Project 667 BDRM.

WP: Missile boats of this series was considered, as they say, the heads of the recent talks of President Medvedev and Obama in Moscow.

Kovalev: Now this part of the program is completed - already the sixth ship is updated in the center of repair "Star". Another trend - the construction of missile series "Northwind" and the creation of their new naval missile "Bulava".

WP: On your memory practiced several generations of missiles for the Navy. As is usually done? And with what was due to hold trials of the Bulava directly from a submarine?

Kovalev: Usually the first stage - start-up models of rockets from the flooded floating stand. This was done in Balaklava. Thus tested a missile submarine is part of the trajectory and how it reaches the surface. After that, the same tests done already on the move - on some refurbished boat.

Then, on the ground in Nenoksa with ground tests a certain number of times fired a missile at a distance. In general, a large program was. The launches were successful, and was said to be partially successful. Or - partially unsuccessful. It was worked out incredibly complex technique.

RG: And if something wrong?

Kovalev: acquainted, have made some adjustments. Sometimes, that is one problem left, but there might be another. And knew about it only those to whom it should be. The press in this case, I want to see, not dedicated.

Once recruited the positive statistics launches with ground tests, did conclude that the missile had already developed, and it was allowed to load on the submarine. Since then have been held so-called joint flight tests. That is the test of the submarine were combined at a time of testing missile system. When statistics launches convinced that the missile is flying normally, missile system, along with the submarine was taken into service.

RG: Why the "club" all twisted?

Kovalev: Because it was no longer submerged booth in Balaklava. And Nenoksa no conditions to let the rocket from the shore.

WP: Write a necessary stand and a new mine has not had time?

Kovalev: First, do not have time to. And secondly, there was no money.

RG: That's why, and refused to working off the ground?

Kovalev: Not only on the ground, but also from startups to submerged floating stand. Start shooting straight from the submarine, we have proposed because they were sure: with the ship did not happen even if the rocket explodes at startup. Such a precedent has already been one of the orders: nearly 100-ton rocket collapsed and caught fire right in the pit - and the boat is nothing ...

We bring great harm to the reduction or even total elimination of the apparatus of military missions in enterprises supplying equipment for missiles as well as for submarines. We have had cases of unsuccessful launches due to the supply of substandard parts, which before the military would not have missed.

A panicmongers

WG: You have gone to sea with the crew of "Dmitry Donskoy" at the very first, and almost all subsequent launches of the Bulava. How do you allow?

Kovalev: (throws up his eyebrows) And who could not afford?

RG: But you - the general designer. For security reasons, and taking into account your age "from above" to order: Sergei Nikitich - on a ship security. As they say, from harm's way ...

Kovalev: No, you know, somehow I myself used to dispose of themselves. And then, mind you, we do not do tricks. Tests carried out not in order to check whether the firm does not crush the hull by water pressure, not votknetsya whether the boat's nose into the ground ...

RG: This is calculated on all models, and deliberately excluded?

Kovalev: In another simply can not be. For example, when deciding on the deep dive, we're not going to it, to see how it is - broken or not broken. We believe a hundred percent that will not break. But somewhere may be heightened tension - we measure the, somewhere may be leaking. And, of course, another story - testing new weapons.

WP: Cozdateli Bulava from the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering during the test launches were with you on the "Dmitry Donskoy"?

Kovalev: The boat had been Deputy Chairmen Yuri Solomon. And he watched as a rule, with surface ships.

RG: It was important to see the rocket go?

Kovalev: How to go - this time. And secondly, there quicker you can get information from the Coast telemetry, which records the flight of a rocket: the first stage separated, the second stage ... While in the boat he did not receive.

As for the public evaluation and participation of the press, it is not always useful. When we fired Nenoksa (a number of test launches have been much higher), know about it, no one knew. Well flew rocket or bad - this case general designer of the rocket. If she flew not so wrong, he should understand, because of what happened. We should not dramatize the situation, if we came to the last decisive battle and lost ...

WP: Fight did not last?

Kovalev: Yes, this is not a battle, and the development of sophisticated missile technology. Very difficult.

RG: And when they write that the Americans making fun of us? Simply put, make a fool Bulava brains affect her noncontact way - using powerful radar, laser beams, etc.

Kovalev: Yes, all this nonsense. There was and no one else has such capabilities.

RG: And what answer the reproaches critics of the new rockets, which argued that it has no stockpile modernization? Yes, and throw the load for the Bulava is much less than the development Makeyev State Rocket Center ...

Kovalev: So the rocket is not one hundred tons, and thirty. Bulava, no doubt, much more sophisticated missiles. Although we lag behind in electronics, it is built on a much more sophisticated materials, on the other element basis. Solid rockets are flying around the world. Flies Topol. And the "Bulava", I am sure that will fly.

In the 81-m, when it was drafted receiving report on the transfer of the head of the submarine fleet to 941-year project - is the current "Dmitry Donskoy", ready to launch for him, too, was not. Complex D-19 is being followed with a ground stand in Nenoksa. A missile launching from the submarine began only in 82-m. In the same year, they have adopted and approved the acceptance certificate on the lead ship. This is very few people know, and in the press endlessly repeating: Lead boat is almost ready, the other on the approach, and the missiles to them yet. So in advance never been!

In the pressure hull

RG: Not so long ago we published in the newspaper your picture made on board the "Dmitry Donskoy" during the regular tests. One of the readers immediately responded: "I know why SN eyes so sad. He remembered his catch phrase:" We will complete our poor knowledge of "good" and "excellent". You really said so?

Kovalev: Not quite. I said that on the worst in the world built drawings of the world's best submarines. It happens that when the boat is handed over, forget about us. At the factory they say: we have built a ship. And like KB as innocent. And when trouble in the building, shouting: Plant at anything, it's "Ruby" in the drawings screwed ...

RG: A knowledge, training of crews as a comment on this? It differs from the current young generation of those who mastered the first nuclear submarine?

Kovalev: Recently, I went to sea only to "Dmitry Donskoy". Previously, there was a commander Arkady Romanov, and now Oleg Tsybin. They have a great crew. But I was particularly bad in the crews did not have to fall. Training of personnel on strategic boat - I can not talk about all submarine fleet - generally good. And the commanders - very smart guys.

RG: They're already in your grandchildren are suitable?

Kovalev: Approximately so. My eldest grandson Nikita thirty-five. At the submarine simply not enough to be technically literate and disciplined officer. Looking for a great vision, erudition, volitional qualities. This was the first commander of the "Sharks" Alexander Ol'khovikov.

RG: He became a Hero of the Soviet Union until the collapse of the Soviet Union commanded a naval training center at Paldiski?

Kovalev: Yes, I had been. And I must say that the simulator and training and material base, which was once established in Paldiski, and then moved to Obninsk, in full has not yet been restored. And without this can not organize comprehensive training crews for service on ships of the fourth generation of "Yuri Dolgoruky.

WP: Sami submariners about "Dolgoruky say that in his review of the bridge is too small - moored awkward ...

Kovalev: This will tell you about any of the submarine. In my projects - just as the commander of mooring not see either the nose or stern. If he wants to actually see, given the opportunity to get to the roof of the fence - raised rail, from there you can watch and monitor. And the "Boreas", if necessary, such a thing will be done. But when to adjust the voyage, no one on the bridge, the roof is not climbing. Because the commander knows what makes mooring team in the nose, making it in the stern.

As the sailor Emperor

WG: You have a lot of years to create weapons. Never caught myself thinking that in this life could be doing something more useful to people?

Kovalev: The most useful for people - is that there is no war, and there is peace. This, unfortunately, does not depend on us. Can not raise the question as you put it: better for everyone to breed nezabudok. Established in CCCR defense complex and the people who work in it, to prevent war, which literally hung.

RG: And when all angles have to repeat that we are thereby ruined the country: boats, missiles, aircraft - eventually came to a broken trough in the early 90's ...

Kovalev: It's all distorted. First one, then in another direction. The costs of defense were very large - and we and the Americans. Another thing is that our economy has been ineffective.

RG: At the time, when it became obvious you hold a high position in the MIC, with your opinion, were considered. Can you explain how it happened that our shipbuilding - a unified and managed industry - crumbled into little pieces? And along with it and Obschemash - Office, where did the rocket.

Kovalev: This talk is - useless. When proclaimed a new way of thinking, began to say that we will share forget-me-not missiles. And that the arms trade - immoral occupation. Press resisted: here are building an aircraft carrier, and how much it costs? And if it does not build, and distribute the money on how many rubles each received ... In short, the idiocy was complete. Nobody thought about, and where work will be the man who was not told to continue to build aircraft carriers.

RG: But you could build tankers, fishing boats, cruise ships, in the end ...

Kovalev: It's all because of wishful thinking. And what we have seen in practice? One after another went to the reorganization of public administration. They wanted to drastically reduce the administrative apparatus, and ended with the fact that he had grown worse than ever. And most importantly - these people as managers completely ineffective.

RG: A year ago created the United Shipbuilding Corporation. Its St. Petersburg office is located in a building "Rubin". This decision, according to you, with a plus sign? Will benefit from it or not?

Kovalev: (Long pause.) Do not know. While I can not imagine their roles - which are likely to lead, where they will have money. Themselves to earn? But now, in times of crisis, it's hard to imagine. Because competition in the shipbuilding industry with countries such as South Korea, still can not. Our performance is not what the climate is not the same. And just a huge distance within the state. We have, wherever you look at it, get more expensive.

WP: USC President Vladimir Pakhomov said that to catch up and compete with Korea - a goal not worth it. But collaborate with them, learn from experience - is another matter. And the Koreans, it might be interesting, because in the face of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, they get certain assurances from the state. It is not separate companies go to foreign markets, and attempt to gather in one fist all the shipbuilding capabilities ...

Kovalev: No, not really, we have collected. Not very. There are already fully formed private entities ...

RG: But the general direction of picking the right assets? Or we should leave, how was it? Suppose further Amur plant remains in the free swimming, freed Kaliningrad Yantar shipyard and those that have long been privatized in St. Petersburg?

Kovalev: You remember how it all started. This is not shipbuilding. This monetozarabatyvanie. Everyone looks at where that can grab. One takes up some work, others think it is more profitable to sell the equipment. Therefore, how to make a system that is being created, I do not know and do not want to speculate.

RG: But the veteran submarine Eric Kovalev in the preface to your book, "The fact that there was ..." expressed quite clearly: that all was right in shipbuilding and in the right direction was developed, it is necessary to reconstruct structures such as the former military-industrial complex and headed by Sergei Kovalev - with the powers the vice-premier. How do you feel about that?

Kovalev: I think that at my age today's post is less than the emperor will not do.

Business Card

Kovalev Sergey N. in 1958 led to the CDB-18 (now the CDB ME "Rubin") work to create a nuclear submarine project 658. And since the primary, and since 1983 - chief designer of nuclear submarines and submarine strategic cruisers, armed with ballistic missiles. In 1971 he began to design a heavy nuclear submarine project 941 Akula. In the battle of the adopted six such ships, which are rightly considered the most powerful in the world. Total project SN Kovaleva built 92 submarines.

Academician, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, in 2007 awarded the State Prize of Russia.

Even in adulthood seriously took up painting. Admitted to the Union of Artists of Russia.

By the way

SEVMASH where Sergey N. traveled on business countless times, and where it happened for half a year lived without a break, decided to organize his solo exhibition.

But the models of missile submarines, built by shipbuilders of his projects, and of landscapes, still lifes and portraits, written by the designer. Shortly before The St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Artists of Russia adopted academician Kovalev in their ranks.

Exposition of the two dozen paintings placed in the museum Sevmash and nervously awaited the author - like it? He appeared on the threshold of a strictly defined time.

- Here, Sergey N. - your pictures ...

- How much? - A single word instantly defuse the situation.

Then I learned that after two rarity collection of "Anecdotes of Academician" and his own book-reflection on the fact that there was ... " in the Rubin Central Design Bureau came poetic works - "Letters grandchildren. Author of poems and drawings to them - Sergei Kovalev.

Editor

Tomorrow general designer Rubin Central Design Bureau "Academician Sergei Kovalev is the 90 years. "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" warmly congratulates Sergei Nikitich on the significant jubilee