Vsevolod Sergeyevich Avduyevsky (28.7.1920, Beryozovka, now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine - 14.4.2003, Moscow), Russian scientist in the field of aeromechanics and scientific and technical problems of space flights, Acad. OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1979). He graduated from the MAI (1944). From 1955, he taught at the MAI (from 1961, Prof.). Since 1995, advisor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Laboratory of Scientific Center for Nonlinear Wave Mechanics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A. A.'s research laid the foundation of the heat protection and heat exchange systems of several generations of automatic and manned spacecraft ("Moon", "Venus", "Mars"), the first spacecraft "Vostok", orbital stations. Works on theory of heat transfer, boundary layer, combustion, tear-off currents, gas dynamic jets, aerodynamics of rarefied gas, weightlessness mechanics.
Lenin Prize (1970), State Prize of the USSR (1978).
