Sergey Kovalyov

Sergei Nikitich Kovalev (; 15 August 1919, Petrograd – 24 February 2011, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian engineer and architect who designed nuclear submarines for the Soviet Navy while leading the Rubin Design Bureau.

Career

92 submarines were built to Kovalyov's designs. The only nuclear submarine designed by Rubin during the Cold War for which Kovalyov wasn't the chief designer was Project 685 Plavnik (NATO Mike class), the bureau's only SSN.

Later life Kovalev remained semi-active in naval engineering throughout his life, designing ice-resistant platforms for hydrocarbon exploration on the Arctic shelf in later years.

An accomplished painter in his retirement, he was made an honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.

Awards and memberships Kovalev was given numerous awards for his service to the Soviet Union, including:

Hero of Socialist Labor, twice: 1963, 1974 Order of Lenin, four times: 1963, 1970, 1974, 1984 Lenin Prize, 1965 State Prize of the Soviet Union, 1978 Order of the October Revolution, 1979 Medal for Distinguished Labor Order for Merit to the Fatherland, twice

Order of Naval Merit State Prize of the Russian Federation, 2007

Memberships

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet, full member Russian Academy of Sciences, full member Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, honorary member