Education
Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
After graduating from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1936 Kirillin worked at the Kashira State Regional Electric Power Plant, at the Unifold Boiler Construction Bureau, and at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, becoming its professor in 1952. During World World War II he served in the navy. From 1954 to 1962 he took leading positions at the Soviet ministries of science and higher education.
In 1963-1965 he served as vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and in 1965 he was appointed as deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Council of Ministers of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics at its sixth, seventh, and eighth meetings
Kirillin’s scientific research focused on the thermophysical properties of solids, liquid water and its vapor. He was also developing magnetohydrodynamic generators for the direct conversion of thermal energy into electric energy.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
In 1966 Kirillin became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.