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Andranik Iosifyan was born in 1905. in Nagorno Karabakh . His father's house in the village of Tsmakahogh has been preserved almost identically. Grandfather was a clergyman, and so was his father. He taught history of religion and Armenian language at school . Andranik was 5 years old when the family moved to Temirkhanshur, now the city of Buynaks, not far from Makhachkala, where his father was appointed a priest in the Armenian church. In 1918, the massacres of Armenians began in the revolutionary chaos. The family was forced to move to Turkmenistan. Then he returned to Karabakh, to his native village of Tsmakahogh. Less than a year later, Soviet order was established in Karabakh, and since 15-year-old Andranik was the only one in the village who knew Russian, he was given a commercial ticket, three rifles, and instructed to gather a squad and protect the village from terrorists. In 1922, Andranik Iosifyan voluntarily enlisted in the Red Army. Serves in the communications battalion as a telephone operator, works on the first Soviet electric railway as an electrician. At the age of 20, Iosifyan finished the general education courses of the Light People's Committee and entered the Baku Polytechnic Institute. This is where the ingenuity and natural talent of the Armenian youth come to light.

Since the 1930s, the Soviet government kept Andranik Iosifyan's scientific activities secret. During the years of the Patriotic War, he managed a military factory, creating weapons and ammunition. The Armenian scientist continued to remain hidden even after the war. He was one of the main designers of military and space rocketry, whose names become known only after his death. The first spaceships were fully equipped with unique electrical equipment created by Iosifyan. Experts ranked Iosifyan's name next to Kurchatov , Korolev and Kelvish.

Who was Andranik Ghevondi Iosifyan? For which the Soviet government awarded him many times with the state and Lenin awards, the title of hero of socialist labor, the medal for the defense of Moscow, 4 times with Lenin, 2 times with the Red Banner of Labor and the October Revolution. He was elected three times as the vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and was awarded the title of academician.

The role in the development of science
While still a student, he described his invention of an electric cannon and sent it to Moscow . The army's armament technical staff is interested in the young inventor's proposal and immediately invites him to Moscow. The army headquarters sends Iosifyan to the All-Union Electrotechnical Institute to implement his proposal as a diploma work . Here he works under the guidance of Academician Shenfer , collaborates with Nikievich, whom he considered his teachers all his life. During the years spent at the Electrotechnical Institute, Iosifyan showed himself as a brilliant engineer, inventor and soon headed the laboratory and then the design bureau. In the 1930s, attempts were made to create a helicopter in the Soviet Union . The flying device had to be small, light and silent. Iosifyan was one of the first to create a remote-controlled electric helicopter, "helicopter". It had a 2-meter-diameter propeller that was powered by an electric cable-powered engine, not aviation gasoline. It was intended for various observations, reconnaissance and directing artillery fire. In 1941, the helicopter was tested. It lifted the pilot with it and made several turns around the area. The beginning of the world war stopped the work in this direction. In 1935, in the same electrotechnical institute, Iosifyan created a military electronics laboratory sponsored by Marshal Tukhachevsky . Soon, Iosifyan's laboratory created a thermal location system for targeting naval guns, which detected the enemy's ship within a radius of 8 km, catching the heat of its chimneys. This work won the Stalin Prize . But Iosifyan was deprived of his awards and the laboratory he created. His father, who used to be a clergyman, was arrested and shot in Baku in 1936. After that, as was customary, the son was dismissed from the party and sent to another laboratory as an ordinary worker. In those years, Iosifyan realized a brilliant invention, creating the first electric car in the world without contacts. He improved the so-called "Celsin", which provides synchronous data transmission of measuring devices. According to experts, this invention was equal in significance to the invention of the telephone or the telegraph, which could only be done by an engineer with original thinking. Iosifyan's non-contact Selsin patents were immediately bought by England, Germany, the United States, France and Italy, which was an extraordinary fact in itself. After that, Iosifyan was reinstated in the party and allowed to create his laboratory. New York in 1939At the world exhibition entitled "The World of the Future", the Soviet Union presented a model of the Magnitagorsk combine with its fireworks and city buildings. The visitors of the exhibition watched in amazement how models of steam locomotives and wagons moved continuously along the 60-meter long railway, without any human intervention. This engineering idea was implemented by Iosifyan. He was the first in the world to create an AC linear motor. The electromagnetic field running along the railway pulled the train along with the rolling stock behind it. In 1940, Iosifyan defended his doctoral thesis and received the title of professor. At only 35 years old, he had patented 13 inventions. In 1941, when the war started, Iosifyan was appointed the director of factory No. 627, which was to produce military electrical equipment. Together with the young engineer, writer, fantasist Alexander Kazantsev, Iosifyan created small remote-controlled missiles, which were intended to be used as an anti-tank weapon on the streets of Moscow, if it was captured by the fascists. In 1942, 9 tanks of the enemy were blown up on the Kerch Peninsula, and in 1944, during the siege of Leningrad, it was possible to eliminate the enemy's firing positions with the help of rockets, which had previously destroyed an entire Soviet division. During the war, the factory headed by Iosifyan produced special military equipment for the partisans. In 1942, Andranik Iosifyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for these works, and after the war, factory No. 627 became a research institute, later receiving the name All-Union Institute of Electromechanics. This scientific center founded by Andranik Iosifyan played a huge role in the development of science and electrotechnical industry. In 1949, the newly created TU-4 bombers already took part in the military parade in Red Square, the main preparation work of which was undertaken by Iosifyan a year earlier. As a result of his work, enamelled wires, absorbent varnishes and other materials needed in the aircraft industry appeared in the Soviet Union. Aviation electrical engineering was born on this basis. It later separated itself by creating its own excellent design bureaus, but Iosifyan laid the foundation. Tubolev was awarded the Stalin Prize for creating a strategic aircraft. At that time, Iosifyan once again managed to anger, as he said, "Kremlin tyrants" and was again deprived of awards. In 1956 Iosifyan founds a branch of the All-Union Institute of Electromechanics, which he heads, in Yerevan. It is difficult to overestimate what Andranik Iosifyan has done for Armenia and his native Karabakh. Every time he came to Armenia and left for Karabakh, his native village, he always took one or two trucks of electrical equipment. He asked his students to load it all into the cars and send it as a gift to Karabakh schools. technical schools. Andranik Iosifyan outlined and implemented almost all directions of electrotechnical science and industry of Armenia. In the early 50sAt the Moscow Institute , Iosifyan gathered around him a group of young scientists who began to create digital computing machines. In the USSR, cybernetics was still considered a pseudoscience and the work was conducted almost in secret. Soon, the first Soviet digital small-scale computing machine M3 was created. It was one of the first Soviet computers. And already in 1956, the first samples of that computer were released at the Iosifyan Institute. Software was also created for them, including full production documentation. The M3 machine was the basis for the creation of the Institute of Mathematical Machines in Yerevan, of which Sergey Mergelyan became the first director . In 1956, with the efforts of Iosifyan, this new, promising direction of science entered Armenia. The Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines based in Yerevan was considered one of the major scientific research centers of Armenia for many years. Yerevan Institute of Mathematical Machines created two calculators, "Aragats" and "Yerevan", only 3 years after its establishment, and after 5 years, the first semiconductor calculator in the USSR, "Hrazdan".

Rocketry
In the 1950s, rocket technology and space exploration experienced rapid development. By the decision of the government, Andranik Iosifyan was appointed the chief designer of the electrical equipment of intercontinental ballistic missiles and space apparatus. Together with Sergey Korolyov and Mikhail Yangel, he was a member of the Council of Chief Constructors of the USSR. Soon, Korolev created the newest weapon, the R7 ballistic missile. That rocket first lifted the first satellite into space, and then Yuri Gagarin's Vostok spaceship. All those rockets and satellites were equipped with unique equipment that Iosifyan designed and created in his institute. In 1961, Andranik Iosifyan was awarded the golden star of the Hero of Socialist Labor for these works. Andranik Iosifyan marries Aysia Sergeevskaya after the war. Aysia graduated from the piano class of the Moscow Conservatory. At the same time, he studied and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow University.
Iosifyan often spent summer vacations in his native village of Tsmakahogh. Several times he also brought young researchers from his Moscow institute to Karabakh. Iosifyan was the honorary president of the collective farm named after Tsmakahoghi Tereshkova. He helped in the electrification of the village, laying of water lines and roads and even organized the construction of a small hydroelectric power plant. Under the leadership of Iosifyan, the satellites of the "Meteor" system were created, which had a number of advantages compared to the Soviet and American satellites that existed before. Meteor's solar panels had an independent orientation to the sun, so that they received maximum energy at any position in the orbit.

The scientific leader of the joint Soviet-Bulgarian Intercosmos Bulgaria 1300 satellite creation and operation program was again Iosifyan. According to Iosifyan, that program made it possible to use the scientific devices intended for the academic study of the ion layer and the magnetic environment for practical problems, the prediction of possible earthquakes in Armenia.
According to Iosifyan,
"Wisdom is worry about the future."
"The wise man is the one who builds the village on the shore and thinks that one day there will be a flood."

Works
In 1974, Andranik Iosifyan had to leave his duties as the director of the Institute of Electromechanics. This happened after he tried to separate the functions of scientist and administrator in order to devote more time to science. However, he continued to be the main designer of the institute.
At the end of his life, Iosifyan was already the author of 34 inventions, all of which were implemented and working.
Since the 1950s, Iosifyan has been engaged in the theory of the electromagnetic field and published many works.
His proposals and articles were not accepted among some physicists, but this did not discourage him. He continued to work on that theory.
Studying the ideas of Maxwell, Faraday and Planck, Iosifian proposed a new system of differential equations of electrodynamics, which actually complemented Maxwell's basic equations. Physic theorists considered this presumptuous and severely criticized. Iosifyan used to say:
"I'm not against Maxwell's theory, I'm just saying that Iosifyan's theory also has the right to exist."
Theoretical physicists did not accept the theory put forward by Iosifyan even after the American physicist Young in 1974 obtained almost the same equations in his theory of gravitation that Iosifyan proposed 15 years ago [4 ] . On April 12, 1993, the night after the day of the space flight, Andranik Iosifyan's life ended.

 

 

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