On February 10 (according to the new style), in the so distant 1911, in the city of Riga upon the Western Dvina, as born Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh. A hereditary nobleman and the future three-time Hero of Socialist Labor, the future President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Chief Theorist of Cosmonautics, and so on and so on... A man and a steamer diesel-electric ship, and institute, and, of course, man who fought flutter and shimmy with the strict strength of Math.
It takes your breath away how much modern space owes to him, how many scientific schools were born and will be born in the institute building on Miusskaya Square... and, of course, we also remember the romantic story that he is a little bit, just a little bit, but a gypsy, and therefore we have included in this collection not only photographs of Keldysh and Korolev (because the Chief Constructor and the Chief Theorist of the Soviet space were two main pillars), but also shots with Thomas Shelby from Birmingham, on a live horse and near a horse of steel :)
Mstislav Vsevolodovich, as history says, was no less stand-up guy, but he was also a mathematician, mechanist and one of the creators of computational mathematics a.k.a. "vychmat" (rus. вычмат). During his work at TsAGI, as people say, he successfully completed pilot training. He struck a word as accurately as iterations of algorithms (where are there any spells!), and what kind of shield forged this blacksmith for his homeland... it's just amazing!
Mstislav Vsevolodovich, thank you for aviation and for space, for applied mathematics in all its splendor and for Soviet science! Comrades scientists, let's raise our glasses and glorify!🪐