On October 25, a postage stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Victor Makeev, an originator of the Russian school of naval rocket and missile engineering, a twice Hero of Socialist Labor, was put into postal circulation

Viktor Makeev (1924-1985) was a pioneer of the Russian scientific and design school of naval strategic missile engineering, a designer general, a Doctor of Technical Sciences (1965), an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1976), and a corresponding member (1968). He was a twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1961, 1974), a Winner of the Lenin (1959) and State Prizes (1968, 1978, 1983).

Viktor Makeev was born on October 25, 1924, in the village of Protopopovo (presently the Kirov settlement of the city of Kolomna). He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1948), and higher engineering courses of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (1950).

Since 1947, Makeev worked at the Experimental Design Bureau-1 of NII-88 as a leading designer. He participated in the development of the R-11 operational-tactical missile and the first naval ballistic missile R-11FM. In 1955, at the suggestion of S. Korolev, he was appointed Chief Designer of SKB-385. Since 1963, Makeev headed the enterprise, and since 1977, he was its General Designer.

Under his leadership, the design bureau became the leading research and development organization in the country; and a branchy cooperation of research institutes, design bureaus, manufacturing plants, and test sites was formed to solve the problems of designing, manufacturing, and testing of missile systems. The result of V. Makeev's activities, of the design bureau he headed and the cooperation of enterprises is three generations of naval strategic missile systems adopted by the Navy.

The Russian school of naval missile engineering founded and headed by V. Makeev achieved world priority in a number of tactical and technical characteristics and design and layout solutions for missiles, control systems, and launch systems. He is the author of 32 fundamental inventions and more than 200 scientific papers including monographs. He did much teaching and headed the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

The postage stamp provides a portrait of Viktor Makeev against the background of the R-29R missile, its drawing and the moment of its testing at the test site.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, Chelyabinsk and Miass of the Chelyabinsk Region.


Design Artist: V. Beltyukov.
Face value: 60 rubles.
Stamp size: 42×30 mm, sheet size: 142×176 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 15 (3×5) stamps.
Quantity: 90 thousand stamps (6 thousand sheets).

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