Georgy Beriev

Soviet aerospace engineer (1903–1979)

Georgy Beriev made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Georgy Beriev as Soviet aerospace engineer (1903–1979).

Georgy Beriev was born at Tbilisi in 1903. His recorded nationality is the Russian Empire. He was educated at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.

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

The record gives his occupations as military flight engineer, inventor and engineer.

His affiliations include Beriev.

Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.

His recorded fields of work are aircraft industry.

His work was formally recognised with the Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize and Order of Lenin.

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.

Georgy Beriev died in 1979 at the age of 76. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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