Anatoli A. Blagonravov (1895-1975)

Anatoli Blagonravov was head of an engineering research institute in the Soviet Union. As Soviet representative to the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in the early 1960s he was also senior negotiator with NASA's Hugh L. Dryden for cooperative space projects at the height of the Cold War in the early 1960s. He worked in developing infantry and artillery weapons in World War II, and on rockets afterward.

For additional information see "Blagonravov, A.A.," Biographical File, NASA Historical Reference Collection, NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.

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