Boris Nikitich Vorobiev
Boris Nikitich Vorobiev (or Vorob'ev or Vorobyov etc.) / Борис Никитич Воробьевъ (or Воробьёв) was an airplane engineer and the editor of Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya from 1909–1912. During World War I he designed aircraft engines for Duflon, Konstantinovich & Co.. He went on to a long and distinguished career in Soviet Moscow, in which one of his major roles was to promote the legacy of Konstantin Tziolkovski.[1]
Biography
Vorobiev was raised in St. Petersburg and received technical education from the Русское техническое общество (Russian Technical Society) in 1897. Later (1906–9, age 24–7) he was educated in Berlin and at Karlsruhe, where he attended the Polytechnical Institute.[2][1]
After returning to Russia he worked at First Russian Aeronautics Company Shchetinin & Co.[3] At the same time, he became editor of Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya. He went on to edit Technika Vozdukhoplavaniya[4] in 1912–3 and Motor[5] in 1913–4.[1]
In 1914 Vorobiev was appointed head of the technical division of an airplane repair plant, then in 1915 went to Duflon, Konstantinovich & Co. where he headed the motors and construction departments. From 1916–1920 he worked on engines in Alexandrovsk/Zaporzhia, Simferopol, Kherson, and Odessa. [6]
Further information
Vorobiev archive
The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow holds two collections from Vorobiev, one an archive of his personal works and letters, another his collection of aeronautics documents.[1]
From the finding aid:
- Vorobiev's correspondents:
- Письма Б.Н. Воробьева к М.Ф. Андреевой, Г.А. Князеву, А.Е. Ферсману, Л.К. Циолковской, Б.Н. Юрьеву и др.
- Письма Б.Н. Воробьеву от В.Ю. Визе, Я.М. Гаккеля, Н.Е. Жуковского (Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky), М.Д. Менделеевой, Н.А. Рынина, А.Е. Ферсмана, Л.К. Циолковской, К.Э Циолковского (Konstantin Tziolkovski) и др.
- Russian Technical Society (Русское техническое общество) had an aeronautical department in the 1880s
- Russian Military Commission on Airplanes (1912) – Конкурс военных аэропланов[7]
- Russian Military Airplane Contest (1912) – Военному конкурсу аэропланов
- Vorobiev has notes from board meetings of IVAK in 1916
- Military-Technical Directorate – военно-техническое управление – wartime airplane procurement
- Moscow Aviation School[8]
- Book Основные сведения по аэрологии и синоптической метеорологии для летчиков и воздухоплавателей 1917
- First All-Russian Aeronautical Congress Feb/Mar 1918 – 1-го Всероссийского воздухоплавательного съезда
- Second All-Russian Aeronautical Congress June 1918 – 2-го Всероссийского авиационного съезда.
- Other people mentioned: Вологодцева Л.К.; aviation historian Александр Алексеевич Родных; Павел Павлович Каннинг; Александр Афанасьевич Евневич (Odessa branch of Russian Technical Society); Михаил Иванович Богомазов
- Stanislav Ivanovich Kvyatkovsky Станислав Иванович Квятковский, correspondence with Zhukovsky and other works
- lots of material from Kowanko including letter to Alfred Hildebrandt (Хильдебрандт), Н.Н. Салова; military issues; material for biography of Kowanko
- Airship "Russia",О.С. Костович (w:ru:Костович, Огнеслав Степанович); М.Н Большев (Большев, Михаил Николаевич?)
The archives have a 1908 report by Vorobiev on Vozdukhoplavatel (1903-1916) from 1904–7 as well as lots of material (reviews, letters, etc.) related to his editorship of Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya.
- Сообщение Лукьянова Г.Н. (Георгий Николаевич Лукьянов?) "Опытные исследования крыльев аэропланов: Бреге, Антуанетт, Райта, Блерио, Фармана, Анрио, Ньёпора" на Всероссийском съезде воздухоплавания 13 апреля 1911 г.
- more...[9]
Book sources
Some of Vorobiev's works are reproduced in a recent book, Россия на взлёте, (Russia Takes Off).[10]
There is another book, by Александр Владимирович Фирсов, titled Борис Никитич Воробьев - создатель первого авиационного мотора АО "Мотор Сич"[11] (Boris Nikitich Vorobiev, creator of the first aviation motor, AO Motor Sich.) Cf. w:ru:Мотор Сич in Zaporzhia.
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Воробьев Борис Никитович, (1882-1965), ст. научный сотрудник Института истории естествознания и техники АН СССР, кандидат технических наук (1965)" Архив Российской Академии наук (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ↑ Polytechnische Schule, now the w:de:Karlsruher Institut für Technologie following a 2009 merger with Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.
- ↑ Первое российское товарищество воздухоплавания С.С. Щетинин и Ко. "Щетинин" – Sergei Sergeyevich Shchetinin (w:de:Sergei Sergejewitsch Schtschetinin) is omitted from the Academy bio but the match is clear.
- ↑ Техника воздухоплавания. St. Petersburg. For sale, Catalog, WorldCat
- ↑ Мотор
- ↑ w:ru:Дюфлон, Константинович и Ко
- ↑ Lots of web coverage of this; e.g., [1]
- ↑ See also testpilot.ru: Moscow Aeronautics Society Московская школа авиации Московского общества воздухоплавания
- ↑ Коллекция документов по истории воздухоплавания и авиации, start at item 60.
- ↑ [2], [3], etc.
- ↑ pdf of frontmatter; catalog entry in Odessa National Scientific Library.
| Names | Boris Nikitich Vorobiev; Борис Никитич Воробьевъ; Борис Никитич Воробьёв; Б.Н. Воробьёв |
|---|---|
| Countries | RU |
| Locations | St. Petersburg, Moscow |
| Occupations | publisher, engineer, teacher |
| Tech areas | Airplane |
| Accreditations | |
| Affiliations | Russian Academy of Sciences, First Russian Airplane Company Shchetinin & Co., Imperial All-Russian Aero Club, Duflon, Konstantinovich & Co., Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya, Technika Vozdukhoplavaniya, Motor (Russia) |
| Family name | |
| Birth date | 1882-08-18 |
| Death date | 1965-10-18 |
| Wikidata id |
This person had 6 publications and 0 patents in this database.
Publications by or about Boris Nikitich Vorobiev or B. Vorob'ev or Борис Никитич Воробьевъ or Борис Никитич Воробьёв
- Verob'ev, 1909, A. J. Hackel's aeroplane (Simple title: A. J. Hackel's aeroplane, Journal: Biblioteka Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Publication B2p1317e05, 1910, First aeronautical plant (Simple title: First aeronautical plant, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Vorob'ev, 1911, In commemoration of Bronislav Vitoldovich Matyevich-Matsieevich (Simple title: In commemoration of Bronislav Vitoldovich Matyevich-Matsieevich)
- Vorob'ev, 1911, Aeronautics in the province (Simple title: Aeronautics in the province, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Vorob'ev, 1911, Evolution of aeronautics in the province (Simple title: Evolution of aeronautics in the province, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Vorob'ev, 1911, Aerial flight St. Petersburg-Moscow (Simple title: Aerial flight St. Petersburg-Moscow, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Vorob'ev, 1911, First All-Russian Aeronautical Congress (Simple title: First All-Russian Aeronautical Congress, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Vaniuha et al, 2022 (Simple title: Foundation of an aircraft engine enterprise in Ukraine, Journal: History of science and technology)
