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Stamps, tying to N. E. Zhukovsky
The father of Russian aviation - this is how Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called the Russian scientist, founder of modern hydro- and aeromechanics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.
A number of Soviet stamps are associated with this scientist.
The first series of three stamps, bound to N. E. Zhukovsky, was issued in 1941 on the 20th anniversary of his death. On the first stamp of this series (by the artist P. Platonov) a portrait of the scientist is reproduced, and a vise of a smolet is depicted, since Zhukovsky associated a number of his works with the study of propeller thrust.
The second stamp (by artist R. Porshyan) reproduces a portrait of N. E. Zhukovsky against the background of the military academy that bears his name. The third stamp of the series (artist P. Platonov) depicts the scientist and his formula for determining the magnitude of the lifting force, published in 1906 in the work “On the addition of vinryakh”.
In January 1947, for the 100th anniversary of the birth of N. E. Zhukovsky, two stamps with his portrait (artist V. Zavyalov) were issued.
In August 1963, a series of stamps was issued related to domestic aviation parts. On one of the stamps in this series, a portrait of N. E. Zhukovsky is reproduced. On the initiative and under the leadership of Zhukovsky, one of the first wind tunnels in the world was built, and the artist V. Pimenov depicted a cross-section of the wind tunnel on the stamp next to the portrait of the scientist.
In his speech “On Aeronautics”, delivered in 1898, that is, long before the advent of the airplane, Zhukovsky said: “A man does not have wings and, in the ratio of the weight of his body to the weight of his muscles, is 72 times weaker than a bird…, but I think that he will win, relying not on the strength of his muscles, but on the strength of his size.” These words of the great scientist are shown on the postal block (artist A. Aksamit), which depicts the world’s first passenger supersonic aircraft TU-144. The block was issued in December 1969 in a series of stamps dedicated to the development of civil aviation.
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