Background
Nikolai Zheltukhin was born on 31 October in 1915 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Nikolai Zheltukhin was born on 31 October in 1915 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Nikolai studied at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Voronezh State University (1933-1935), but he was expelled from the university for political reasons. He graduated from the Higher Engineering Courses at the Moscow Higher Technical School named after N.E. Bauman (1949).
In 1937 Nikolai was repressed, sentenced to 8 years in prison and in 1956 he was rehabilitated. Since 1939 he worked in the prison motor-building design bureau. After liberation in 1945 he was a design engineer. He worked in the design bureau for the development of jet and rocket engines under the leadership of Academician S.P. Korolev. Since 1959 he was a scientific worker, then director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Nikolai was a member of the program for launching the first artificial Earth satellite.
Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).