Genrikh Abramovich

Genrikh Abramovich (May 1, 1911, Warsaw – March 27, 1995, Moscow) was a Soviet scientist in the field of aeromechanics, theoretical and applied gas dynamics.

Biography Born on May 1, 1911, in Warsaw in the family of Naum Abramovich, a student at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. In his youth, his father became interested in revolutionary activities, was arrested, deported, and was in prison (according to family legend, in the same cell with Gleb Krzhizhanovsky).

He studied at the music school named after Alexander Scriabin (now the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory) in the class of A. V. Alexandrov.

In 1929, he entered the Moscow Higher Technical University at the heat engineering department of the construction faculty.

In 1932, Abramovich was hired by the TsAGI.

Abramovich conducted practical classes in theoretical mechanics at the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Technology (MISI) (1932), and lectured on industrial aerodynamics (1933). He taught at the Moscow Aviation Institute (1939–1991), professor (1945), head of the department of theory of air-breathing engines (1962–1982); State Tax Service (1991–1995).

At the beginning of 1945, from NII-1 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, he was invited to CIAM (part-time) by V.I. Polikovsky to organize research in the field of aerogasdynamics of engines. Abramovich remained the head of the gas dynamics laboratory he had previously organized at NII-1 (until 1952), and at the same time gave a course of lectures on hydrogas dynamics at the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Abramovich died on March 27, 1995. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery.