Mikhail Bibikin

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bibikin (1914 – 1980) was a Soviet design engineer, a specialist in the development of nuclear weapons, and a USSR State Prize Laureate.

Biography Bibikin was born on 12 January 1914 in the village of Burtsevo, Bogorodsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate to a peasant family.

In 1937, after graduating from Gorky Industrial Institute, he worked as an engineer at Kolomna Machine Building Plant. He served in the Red Army from 1937 to 1939. In 1939, he became a design engineer at Plant No. 92 and at the NKV USSR. In 1944, he was design engineer and leading designer at Leningrad plant "Bolshevik". In 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his merits in the development of new types of artillery weapons.

In 1956, he was sent to the closed city Chelyabinsk-70 to the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics. From 1956 to 1960 he was head of the design department of operational equipment (Department-92) and at the same time he was deputy head of Sector-9 (NIO-9 - operation and control systems for nuclear weapons and ammunitions development, flight and ground tests). In 1961, he was head of Department-72 (nuclear weapons and nuclear ammunition development for the Soviet Navy and the USSR Strategic Missile Forces).

Bibikin died on 7 March 1980 in the city Chelyabinsk-70.

Awards

Orders Order of Lenin (1975) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1969) Order of the Red Star (1944)

Medals Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945)

Prizes USSR State Prize (1971)