The event was held in Kronstadt. The participants in the cancellation ceremony were Boris Bogomolov, a Deputy Director General of the United Shipbuilding Corporation; and Igor Vilnit, the Director General of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering of the Rubin USC.
Igor Spassky (1926–2024) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, an engineer, and a chief designer of the Rubin Leningrad Planning and Installation Bureau under the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR; a Scientific Director of Joint-Stock Company Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering ‘Rubin’ in St. Petersburg. Igor Spassky was a Hero of Socialist Labor, a Holder of the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize. He was a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a Hero of the Russian Federation. Spassky was a member of the Interdepartmental Scientific Council on Shipbuilding of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Igor Spassky developed a range of fundamental principles that ensure both high efficiency and safe operation of submarines and their nuclear power plants; he defined the optimal level of automation for submarine control; elaborated fundamentally new engineering methods for submarine construction that permit to reduce significantly construction time and cost while substantially improving their combat performances.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Igor Spassky; in the background: a drawing of a Project 658 submarine and an exterior view of a Project 941 Akula nuclear submarine. The Artist is Maxim Podobed. The Print Run is 56 thousand stamps.
Today, the postage stamp went on sale in post offices and the Collectioner show room chain.
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