Friedrich Zander
Friedrich Zander | |
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| Born | 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1887 Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 March 1933 (aged 45) Kislovodsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Riga Technical University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronautics |
| Institutions | Moscow Aviation Institute |
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Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander (also Tsander; Russian: Фри́дрих Арту́рович Ца́ндер, romanized: Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander; Latvian: Frīdrihs Canders; 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1887 – 28 March 1933) was a Russian and Soviet pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight, of Baltic German descent. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space.