Igor Spassky, General Designer Of About 200 Soviet Submarines, Dies In Russia

His designs include the Kursk nuclear submarine.

Igor Spassky, Hero of Russia, General Designer of about 200 Soviet and Russian submarines, former head of the Rubin Design Bureau, has died at the age of 98, the press service of the St. Petersburg government reported.

“His name is associated with projects that became the basis of the strategic potential of the Russian Navy. Under his leadership, the Rubin Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering became a symbol of reliability and innovation,” the report says.

His designs include the Kursk nuclear submarine, the Kalmar, Akula, and Dolphin strategic submarine cruisers, as well as the Granit and Antey nuclear submarine missile cruisers. A total of 187 submarines were built according to his designs, of which 91 were diesel-electric and 96 were nuclear. They form the core of the Soviet and Russian fleets.

Spassky was born on August 2, 1926, in the city of Bogorodsk (now Noginsk) in the Moscow region. He graduated from the Moscow Naval School, the Baku Naval Preparatory School and entered service in the USSR Navy.

He began participating in the development of submarines in 1950, and from 1953 he worked at the Rubin Central Design Bureau, which he headed 30 years later. He was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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