Education
Kalinin graduated from the Odessa Military School in 1912, the Gatchina Military Aviation School in 1916, and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1925.
Kalinin graduated from the Odessa Military School in 1912, the Gatchina Military Aviation School in 1916, and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1925.
During the Civil War of 1918-1920 he was a Red Army pilot. In 1926 he organized and headed an aviation design bureau in Kharkiv. He designed the Kalinin K-4, Kalinin K-5 and Kalinin K-7.
Kalinin was executed as an enemy of the state in 1938 during the Stalinist purges.
According to Soviet records, he died in 1940. Kalinin was one of the founders and first teachers of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute.
He was awarded the of Labor.
He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927.