Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich

Soviet aircraft designer (1883–1938)

Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich as Soviet aircraft designer (1883–1938).

Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich was born at Kyiv in 1883. His recorded nationality is the Russian Empire. He was educated at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.

He worked as military flight engineer, inventor and engineer.

His affiliations include Moscow Aviation Institute.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

His recorded fields of work are design engineering.

Working from the Russian Empire shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich died in 1938, aged 55. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.

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