Arkady Ilyich Ostashev (Russian: Аркадий Ильич Осташев; 30 September 1925 – 12 July 1998) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites. He was a participant in the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth and the first cosmonaut, candidate of technical sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin (1960) and State (1979) prizes, one of the leading managers of work in the field of experimental development of rocket technology OKB-1, personal pensioner of republican significance, student and interpersonal relationship of Sergei Korolev.
He was born in the village of Maloye Vasilyevo. In his school years Arkady, together with his elder brother Yevgeny, under the leadership of the magazine "Knowledge is Power", designed and assembled a telescope with a 10-fold increase with the necessary bed and a mechanism of rotation in two planes, lenses for the eyepiece and the objective sent to the editorial Board of the journal free of charge. It observed the Moon , they dreamed of flying to the planets of the Solar System. Ostashev in 1942 graduated from 9 classes of middle school No. 32, Elektrougli, Noginsky District, Moscow region. After graduating from school, he studied for 2.5 months at preparatory courses at the Moscow Aviation Institute and passed exams according to the program of 10 classes, according to the results of which he was enrolled in the MAI named after S. Ordzhonikidze. In the fourth year of the institute, A.I. Ostashev managed to learn German documents on rocketry, obtained by a group of specialists sent by the country's leadership in Germany after the war. After careful study of the materials received from German rocket scientists, A.I. Ostashev finally decided on the topic of his graduation project: "Composite rocket with a cruise last stage", with the stability of the main stage. But with such a topic of the graduation project, difficulties arose when choosing a consultant. Due to the novelty of the topic, they refused to consult:
Dean facultya No. 2 MAI doctor of technical sciences, professor, major general Myasishchev Vladimir Mikhailovich;
Deputy chief LII doctor of technical sciences, professor Ostoslavsky Ivan Vasilyevich;
Chief designer OKB-82 at factory No. 82 Pashinin Mikhail Mikhailovich.
On the advice of the assistant dean of the faculty Gaponenko M.P. Ostashev went to Podlipki to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. So in 1947, A. I. Ostashev met S. P. Korolev. From 1947 until graduating from the Aviation Institute in 1948, Ostashev worked in Department No. 3 of the special design bureau of the Research Institute-88 of the Ministry of Defense Industry as a senior technician and under the guidance of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev prepared a diploma for defense. In this enterprise, A.I. Ostashev worked for more than 50 years in positions from a senior technician to the head of the complex. In 1952 he graduated from the VIC (higher engineering courses) in BMSTU, in the same year he graduated from the University of Marxism–Leninism in Mytishchi city Committee of the CPSU. In 1956 Arkady Ilyich joined the ranks of the CPSU. In 1975, A.I. Ostashev was the head of testing of the rocket-space systems according to the Russian-American program "ASTP" . All the scientific and engineering activities of Ostashev since 1948 connected with the development and introduction of the system of tests of missiles and rocket-space complexes. At the preliminary design of a famous "SEVEN" R-7, under the guidance of Ostashev created volume No. 14 fully dedicated to the testing of missiles. Arkady Ilyich author and co-author of over 200 scientific works , articles and inventions. In addition to engineering and scientific work, he was leading and teaching. Since 1961, he has been Docent (Department "Integrated system for measurement of aircraft") MAI them. S. Ordzhonikidze, lectured at Department No. 308.
Ostashev died on 12 July 1998, in Moscow. Personal will and testament Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was cremated for burial in the grave of the elder brother Yevgeny. In December 1998, after obtaining the relevant approvals and permits from the leadership of Kazakhstan dust Ostashev was moved by his wife and son to Baikonur (city) and buried in the grave of his older brother Yevgeny, who died on 24 October 1960 41 site the Baikonur cosmodrome in preparation for the launch of Intercontinental ballistic missile R-16.
Wife – Ostasheva (before Vasilyev's marriage) Lyudmila Vasilyevna (1924–2003). Married since 1949.
Daughter – Ostasheva Olga Arkadyevna (born in 1951).
Son – Mikhail Arkadyevich Ostashev (born in 1956).
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (stamped "top secret") dated 20 April 1956) — For merits in the creation of long-range ballistic missiles and in connection with the 10th anniversary of OKB-1 – 1956
Order of Lenin — for the creation and launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth – Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 264/38 of 21 December 1957. Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences for the first satellite.
Lenin Prize — The decision of the Committee on Lenin Prizes in the Field of science and technology of 20 April 1960, "For the discovery and study of the outer radiation belt of the Earth and the study of the magnetic field of the Earth and the Moon."
Order of Lenin — Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 253/34 17 June 1961, For the successful fulfillment of a special task of the Government to create samples of rocket technology, the Vostok satellite spacecraft and the implementation of the world's first flight of this ship with a man on board."
Order of the Red Banner of Labour — Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 15 January 1976 "For participation in the implementation of a joint space flight under the Soyuz – Apollo program."
The State Prize was awarded by the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated 6 November 1979, "For work in the field of space research" (creation and implementation of the methodology for testing Progress cargo ships).
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"