Nikolay Pilyugin

5 May] 1908, Krasnoye Selo - August 2, 1982) was a Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems.

[4][5] A graduate of the Baumann higher technical school (MVTU), Pilyugin worked at the Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics (TsAGI) starting in 1934, then joined RNII the Institute of Jet Propulsion.

In 1945, he joined Boris Chertok at the RABE institute in Germany, studying the design of the V-2 and other Nazi weaponry.

[citation needed] In 1946, he along with Mikhail Ryazansky headed the newly formed NII-885.

[6][7] Pilyugin was one of the 72 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences who signed a statement denouncing the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Andrei D. Sakharov in 1975.