Education
Moscow Aviation Institute.
Moscow Aviation Institute.
His career started as an aviation engineer, after graduating from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1937. He worked with famous aircraft designers Nikolai Polikarpov and later, Artem Mikoyan. Then he moved to the field of ballistic missiles, where he first was in charge of guidance systems
At first, Yangel’s facility served to mass-produce and further develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in which area Yangel was a pioneer of storeable hypergolic fuels.
His bureau designed the R-12, R-16 and R-36, whose launch vehicle adaptations are known as Cosmos, Tsyklon, Dnepr respectively are still in use today. Yangel narrowly avoided death during the development of the R-16 in the 1960 Nedelin catastrophe.
Yangel"s bureau was part of the Ministry of General Machine Building headed by Sergey Afanasyev. He died in Moscow in 1971.
Several notable places were named after Yangel: A street in the Chertanovo neighborhood in Moscow A Metro station Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Lincolnshire (near the above street) A street in Kiev The crater Yangel on the Moon.
A minor planet 3039 Yangel discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after him. "; I. "South. P. A. South. P.
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.