Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy

Gleb Yevgenyevich Lozino-Lozinskiy (Russian: Глеб Евгеньевич Лозино-Лозинский; Kyiv, January 7, 1910 – Moscow, November 28, 2001) was a Ukrainian [1][2] engineer, General Director and General Designer of the JSC NPO Molniya, lead developer of the Russian Spiral and Shuttle Buran programme, Doctor of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of Lenin Prize (1962) and Stalin Prizes (1950, 1952).

During the war he was evacuated to Kuybishev and in 1942 settled in Moscow where he joined a design bureau led by Artem Mikoyan, the developer of the Soviet fighter aircraft known around the world as MIGs.

In 1976, Lozino-Lozinskiy was put in charge of NPO Molniya, a newly created design centre on the outskirts of Moscow.

Known as Buran, the Soviet shuttle made a single uncrewed orbital flight and completed the world's first automated landing in 1988.

Lozino-Lozinskiy led NPO Molniya in the search for the development of lightweight airplanes, aimed at reducing the cost of launching commercial payloads into space.