Dmitri Kozlov (engineer)

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Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov (Russian: Дмитрий Ильич Козлов; 1 October 1919, Tikhoretsk – 7 March 2009, Samara) was a Russian aerospace engineer who founded the Progress Rocket Space Center, the developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz family of rockets. Kozlov fought the Nazis in the Second World War, losing his left arm. In the 1950s he worked under Sergey Korolyov and was in charge of designing the R-7 missile, the design of which would become the basis of the Soyuz rocket. As a leading designer of intercontinental ballistic missiles Kozlov was awarded a Lenin Prize (1957), two USSR State Prizes (1976, 1983), a Russian Federation State Prize (1994) and was named a Hero of Socialist Labour on two occasions (1961, 1979).