24 June] 1885 in Saint Petersburg - 11 September 1962 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian rocket scientist at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, and was one of the inventors of the Katyusha.
15 June] 1908 he graduated from military school in the rank of second lieutenant and commissioned to the Brest Fortress artillery unit.
He installed seven aluminium parachute flares into a rocket head, his invention exceeded several standard missiles in the illuminating power.
In Spring 1920 Tikhomirov and Artemyev equipped a small laboratory on Tikhvinskaya street in Moscow and conducted a series of experiments with charcoal gunpowder.
The scientists financed the research with their own money, to support the laboratory they crafted and sold toys and bicycle supplies.
[4] On 22 September 1922 Vladimir Artemyev was arrested on charges of espionage, inaction and negligence that undermined the Red Army’s supply in artillery and projectiles.
Under the Special Council of the NKVD decision from 10 June 1923, he was sentenced to 3 years at the Solovki prison camp.
Since that year the laboratory has been subjected to the Red Army Office of Military Inventions of the Technical Staff of the Chief of Armaments.
On 23 March 1943 he was awarded with the 1st class USSR State Prize in honour of his major improvements in mortar tubes and ammunition.