Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Ветчинкин) (June 29, 1888 - March 6, 1950) was a Soviet scientist in the field of aerodynamics, aeronautics, and wind energy, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1927), Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR (1946).
Vetchinkin graduated from Moscow Higher Technical School (MVTU) in 1915, the favorite student of Nikolay Zhukovsky and generally viewed as his successor.
In 1914, Vetchinkin began working with Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev on high performance windmills for electric power generation.
To store energy during lulls in the wind, it used a 360 kilogram flywheel contained in a vacuum chamber.
Vetchinkin was a key supporter of rocketry pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk,[3] and helped him get his work published.