Nikolay Dollezhal

Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (, ; – 20 November 2000 ) was a Russian engineer of Czech origin whose career was spent in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and later played an influential role in developing the commercial nuclear power industry of Russia.

Biography Dollezhal was born in Omelnik in Ekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine), on 27 October 1899. According to the GlobalSecurity.org investigations, Dollezhal was of Czech origin—his grandfather, Ferdinand Dollezhal, a Czech, was also an engineer who married a Russian woman in the middle 19th century. In 1917, he attended the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MVTU) where he studied heat engines, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, electronics, heat exchanger and refrigeration under Nikolay Zhukovsky.