Academician Vladimir Barmin - designer of launch complexes. Barmin Vladimir Pavlovich V p barmin

Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin(March 4 (17), 1909, Moscow - July 17, 1993, Moscow) - Soviet scientist, designer of jet launchers, rocket-space and combat launch complexes. One of the founders of Russian cosmonautics.

In GSKB Spetsmash, with the participation of Barmin, silo complexes for combat missiles R-12, R-14, R-9A, UR-100 were created. Under his leadership, launch complexes for the Proton launch vehicles and the Energiya-Buran reusable rocket and space system were developed and created.

Founder and first head of the Department of "Launching missile systems" MSTU named after N. E. Bauman.

Managed the design bureau for the development of launch complexes (Chief Designer).

Barmin supervised the creation of automatic soil sampling devices for the exploration of the Moon and Venus. With the help of one of them, a sample of lunar soil was taken from a depth of about 2.5 meters and delivered to Earth. With the help of another, soil samples were taken at three points on the surface of Venus, scientific information about its chemical composition was received and transmitted via radio channel to Earth.

The Barmina Design Bureau developed the world's first detailed design of the Zvezda lunar base, which was jokingly nicknamed "Barmingrad" by the staff, which remained unfulfilled.

Son - Igor Vladimirovich Barmin (b. 01/12/1943), General Director - General Designer of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Design Bureau of General Mechanical Engineering. V. P. Barmin”, since November 2011 President of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

Awards and prizes

Laureate of the Lenin Prize ().
Four-time winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1943, 1967, 1977, 1985).
He was awarded six Orders of Lenin (1943, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1979), Orders of the October Revolution (1971), Order of Kutuzov, I degree (09/16/1945), two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1944, 1975) and medals.

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An excerpt characterizing Barmin, Vladimir Pavlovich

During this difficult journey, m lle Bourienne, Dessalles and the servants of Princess Mary were surprised by her fortitude and activity. She went to bed later than everyone else, got up earlier than everyone else, and no difficulties could stop her. Thanks to her activity and energy, which aroused her companions, by the end of the second week they were approaching Yaroslavl.
During the last time of her stay in Voronezh, Princess Marya experienced the best happiness in her life. Her love for Rostov no longer tormented her, did not excite her. This love filled her whole soul, became an indivisible part of herself, and she no longer fought against it. Of late, Princess Marya became convinced—although she never said this clearly to herself in words—she was convinced that she was loved and loved. She was convinced of this during her last meeting with Nikolai, when he came to her to announce that her brother was with the Rostovs. Nikolai did not hint in a single word that now (in the event of the recovery of Prince Andrei) the former relations between him and Natasha could be resumed, but Princess Marya saw from his face that he knew and thought this. And, despite the fact that his relationship to her - cautious, tender and loving - not only did not change, but he seemed to be glad that now the relationship between him and Princess Marya allowed him to more freely express his friendship to her love, as she sometimes thought Princess Mary. Princess Marya knew that she loved for the first and last time in her life, and felt that she was loved, and was happy, calm in this respect.
But this happiness of one side of her soul not only did not prevent her from feeling grief for her brother with all her strength, but, on the contrary, this peace of mind in one respect gave her a great opportunity to give herself completely to her feelings for her brother. This feeling was so strong in the first minute of leaving Voronezh that those who saw her off were sure, looking at her exhausted, desperate face, that she would certainly fall ill on the way; but it was precisely the difficulties and worries of the journey, which Princess Marya undertook with such activity, saved her for a while from her grief and gave her strength.
As always happens during a trip, Princess Marya thought about only one trip, forgetting what was his goal. But, approaching Yaroslavl, when something that could await her again opened up, and not many days later, but this evening, Princess Mary's excitement reached its extreme limits.
When a haiduk sent ahead to find out in Yaroslavl where the Rostovs were and in what position Prince Andrei was, he met a large carriage driving in at the outpost, he was horrified to see the terribly pale face of the princess, which stuck out to him from the window.
- I found out everything, Your Excellency: the Rostov people are standing on the square, in the house of the merchant Bronnikov. Not far, above the Volga itself, - said the haiduk.
Princess Mary looked at his face in a frightened questioning way, not understanding what he was saying to her, not understanding why he did not answer the main question: what is a brother? M lle Bourienne made this question for Princess Mary.
- What is the prince? she asked.
“Their excellencies are in the same house with them.
“So he is alive,” thought the princess, and quietly asked: what is he?
“People said they were all in the same position.
What did “everything in the same position” mean, the princess did not ask, and only briefly, glancing imperceptibly at the seven-year-old Nikolushka, who was sitting in front of her and rejoicing at the city, lowered her head and did not raise it until the heavy carriage, rattling, shaking and swaying, did not stop somewhere. The folding footboards rattled.
The doors opened. On the left was water - a big river, on the right was a porch; there were people on the porch, servants, and some sort of ruddy-faced girl with a big black plait, who smiled unpleasantly feignedly, as it seemed to Princess Marya (it was Sonya). The princess ran up the stairs, the smiling girl said: “Here, here!” - and the princess found herself in the hall in front of an old woman with an oriental type of face, who, with a touched expression, quickly walked towards her. It was the Countess. She embraced Princess Mary and began to kiss her.
- Mon enfant! she said, je vous aime et vous connais depuis longtemps. [My child! I love you and have known you for a long time.]
Despite all her excitement, Princess Marya realized that it was the countess and that she had to say something. She, not knowing how herself, uttered some courteous French words, in the same tone as those that were spoken to her, and asked: what is he?
“The doctor says there is no danger,” said the countess, but while she was saying this, she raised her eyes with a sigh, and in this gesture there was an expression that contradicted her words.
- Where is he? Can you see him, can you? the princess asked.
- Now, princess, now, my friend. Is this his son? she said, turning to Nikolushka, who was entering with Desalle. We can all fit, the house is big. Oh what a lovely boy!
The countess led the princess into the drawing room. Sonya was talking to m lle Bourienne. The countess caressed the boy. The old count entered the room, greeting the princess. The old count has changed tremendously since the princess last saw him. Then he was a lively, cheerful, self-confident old man, now he seemed a miserable, lost person. He, speaking with the princess, constantly looked around, as if asking everyone whether he was doing what was necessary. After the ruin of Moscow and his estate, knocked out of his usual rut, he apparently lost consciousness of his significance and felt that he no longer had a place in life.
Despite the excitement in which she was, despite one desire to see her brother as soon as possible and annoyance because at that moment, when she only wants to see him, she is occupied and pretended to praise her nephew, the princess noticed everything that was going on around her, and felt the need for a time to submit to this new order into which she was entering. She knew that all this was necessary, and it was difficult for her, but she did not get annoyed with them.
“This is my niece,” said the count, introducing Sonya, “do you not know her, princess?”
The princess turned to her and, trying to extinguish the hostile feeling for this girl that had risen in her soul, kissed her. But it became difficult for her because the mood of everyone around her was so far from what was in her soul.
- Where is he? she asked again, addressing everyone.
“He’s downstairs, Natasha is with him,” answered Sonya, blushing. - Let's go find out. I think you are tired, princess?
The princess had tears of annoyance in her eyes. She turned away and wanted to ask the countess again where to go to him, when light, swift, as if cheerful steps were heard at the door. The princess looked round and saw Natasha almost running in, the same Natasha whom she did not like so much on that old meeting in Moscow.
But before the princess had time to look at the face of this Natasha, she realized that this was her sincere comrade in grief, and therefore her friend. She rushed to meet her and, embracing her, wept on her shoulder.
As soon as Natasha, who was sitting at the head of Prince Andrei, found out about the arrival of Princess Marya, she quietly left his room with those quick, as it seemed to Princess Marya, as if with cheerful steps, and ran to her.
On her excited face, when she ran into the room, there was only one expression - an expression of love, boundless love for him, for her, for everything that was close to a loved one, an expression of pity, suffering for others and a passionate desire to give herself all for in order to help them. It was evident that at that moment not a single thought about herself, about her relationship to him, was in Natasha's soul.
The sensitive Princess Marya, at the first glance at Natasha's face, understood all this and wept on her shoulder with sorrowful pleasure.
“Come on, let’s go to him, Marie,” Natasha said, taking her to another room.
Princess Mary raised her face, wiped her eyes, and turned to Natasha. She felt that she would understand and learn everything from her.
“What…” she began to question, but suddenly stopped. She felt that words could neither ask nor answer. Natasha's face and eyes should have said everything more clearly and deeply.
Natasha looked at her, but seemed to be in fear and doubt - to say or not to say everything that she knew; she seemed to feel that before those radiant eyes, penetrating into the very depths of her heart, it was impossible not to tell the whole, the whole truth as she saw it. Natasha's lip suddenly trembled, ugly wrinkles formed around her mouth, and she, sobbing, covered her face with her hands.
Princess Mary understood everything.
But she still hoped and asked in words in which she did not believe:
But how is his wound? In general, what position is he in?
“You, you ... will see,” Natasha could only say.
They sat for some time downstairs near his room in order to stop crying and come in to him with calm faces.
- How was the illness? Has he gotten worse? When did it happen? asked Princess Mary.
Natasha said that at first there was a danger from a feverish state and from suffering, but in the Trinity this passed, and the doctor was afraid of one thing - Antonov's fire. But that danger was over. When we arrived in Yaroslavl, the wound began to fester (Natasha knew everything about suppuration, etc.), and the doctor said that suppuration could go right. There was a fever. The doctor said that this fever was not so dangerous.

Barma (barama, brama)- a mantle, a necklace on solemn clothes with sacred images; they were worn in ancient times by spiritual dignitaries and sovereigns. However, the surname could also come from a nickname Barma- mumbler, burr. In this case, peers Barmin- Sviblov And Shviblov(from siberian- mumbling, tongue-tied).
Never Barmin, metropolitan boyar, is listed in the documents of 1378.

Version 2. The history of the origin of the surname Barmin

St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was built by the architect Barma. Knowing nothing more about him, we can guess that he suffered from a speech impediment. After all, 'barma' meant 'indistinctly speaking, tongue-tied'. And now, even in Siberia, you can hear the phrase: “You’re a barma, you won’t understand anything from you.” (F). At the heart of the bar. This was the name of the shoulder decoration of the priests, worn on solemn occasions. However, in the dialects there is also the word barma in the meaning of 'mumbling', 'burry', barmit - 'speak unintelligibly'. (H) In Veselovsky’s Onomasticon: Barma, Barmins: Barma, a peasant, 1545, Novgorod; Never Barmin, Metropolitan boyar, 1378; Konon Barmin, peasant, 1502, Kostroma. Barma - mantle, necklace.

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Among the most famous namesakes is the Soviet scientist, specialist in the field of mechanics and mechanical engineering, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin.

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The surname Barmin is derived from the nickname Barma. In the old days, in the Moscow dialect, a barma was called a mumbler, a burry person, or someone who speaks indistinctly, unclearly. In the Permian dialect, the word "barma" means "thief", and in the archaic lexicon - "necklace on formal clothes with sacred images." Barmas were worn by spiritual dignitaries and Russian sovereigns. Thus, the nickname Barma may indicate the features of the speech of the founder of the Barmin family (this seems more likely) or his occupation. Barma, eventually received the surname Barmin.

Among the most famous namesakes is the Soviet scientist, specialist in the field of mechanics and mechanical engineering, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin.

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Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin (1909 - 1993) - Soviet scientist, designer of jet launchers, rocket-space and combat launch complexes. We invite you to read the article "The Life of Academician Barmin" by Alexander Zheleznyakov, which tells about the biography of the designer. Originally the text was published in the newspaper "Secret Materials" (N1, December 2012).

Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin was born on March 4 (17), 1909 in Moscow, in the family of an employee. In 1917, he entered the Ivantsov Moscow Real School, which a year later was transformed into a secondary school of the first and second stages.
Already in his school years, Barmin showed himself as a smart and inquisitive boy. Therefore, in 1926, having successfully completed both levels of school and striving to get a higher technical education, he applied for admission to three institutes at once. He successfully passes exams in two of them - at the Faculty of Mechanics of the Moscow Mechanical Engineering Institute (hereinafter Bauman Moscow State Technical University) and at the Lomonosov Institute (Lomonosov Moscow Mechanical Institute, the predecessor of the Moscow Automotive Institute, now - Moscow State Engineering University).

In the first semester he attends lectures at both institutes. How he does it, is silent. But Barmin used this time to finally determine his future engineering specialization.

From the second semester, he becomes a student only of Bauman. In 1930, he brilliantly defended his thesis on the topic "Perm city refrigerator", becoming a mechanical engineer for refrigeration machines and apparatuses.
In those years, after graduating from higher educational institutions, instead of diplomas, young specialists were issued certificates of completion of their studies at the institute. With such a certificate, Barmin was sent to the Moscow plant "Kotloapparat", which was engaged in the production of refrigeration equipment. In 1931, the plant, which produced bulky low-performance horizontal compressors for refrigeration equipment, was renamed Compressor.

Having started his career at the plant as a design engineer, Barmin immediately joined the activities of the design bureau of the enterprise. His first work was the design of a new, modern vertical compressor. Youth, knowledge, ability to work with people allowed the young engineer to design, issue working drawings, manufacture and conduct control tests of the new VP-230 compressor in a record short time (in just six months). The plant began the transition from the production of low-speed horizontal ammonia compressors to new high-speed vertical compressors.

Subsequently, having already become the Chief Designer of launch complexes for ballistic missiles, Vladimir Pavlovich recalled this first design victory with pleasure. Largely thanks to this work, he was able to reach those heights that forever inscribed his name in the history of space exploration.

Two years later, the management of the plant, satisfied with the success of the young engineer, instructed him to head the compressor group of the design bureau. In the 1930s, under his leadership, a number of powerful air compressors of the VG series were developed for the coal industry, the first domestic brake compressor TV-130 for electric locomotives, the first domestic vertical carbon dioxide compressor UV-70/2 for marine vessels, the carbon dioxide compressor UG-160 for refrigeration installations of the Lenin Mausoleum and a mobile high-pressure compressor AK-50/150 for aviation.

As those who happened to work with Vladimir Pavlovich recalled, even then the main features of his character began to appear. He normally, without offense, perceived comments and criticism, made the necessary conclusions for himself. In the first place, Barmin always had a business.

At the end of 1935, Barmin, as part of a group of Glavmashprom specialists, was sent to the United States to study the production and operation of compressors and refrigeration equipment. In addition to the general task, Vladimir Pavlovich received two personal instructions from the people's commissar of heavy industry, Sergo Ordzhonikidze. One of them concerned the study of the production of home refrigerators, which began to be widely used in everyday life abroad. And on the second assignment, Barmin had to figure out a very “delicate” issue: how the Americans make transparent ice. With us, during its artificial production, at that time (and many years later) it turned out only cloudy.

In May 1936, the delegation returned to Moscow, and following the results of the trip, Barmin presented an extensive report. It detailed the state of refrigeration production in the US, the advantages and disadvantages of compressors manufactured at various factories, and also gave recommendations on which products it is advisable to purchase. It was also proposed to develop the domestic compressor industry and refrigeration engineering.

Largely due to the information that Barmin brought from America, refrigerators entered our everyday life. Under his leadership, the first domestic marine freon refrigerating machines 1FV, 2FV and 4FV are being developed, and the first domestic experimental direct-acting diesel compressor is being created.

At the end of 1940, he was appointed chief designer of the Kompressor plant. Those innovations that Barmin saw during his business trip to America form his views on the further development of compressor and refrigeration technology in our country. However, the great plans of the young chief did not come true - the Great Patriotic War began, which radically changed the scientific and industrial work of the young designer.

Radical changes were influenced by the decision taken by the government of our country just a day before the start of the war, on June 21, 1941. Then a decree was signed on the deployment of mass production of PC-132 (or M-13) rockets, launchers for them and on the beginning of the formation of specialized military units for their use. On the ninth day of the war, the director of the Kompressor plant and Barmin, as the chief designer, were summoned to the people's commissar for general engineering, Pyotr Parshin, where they were given the task of completely rebuilding the plant, switching it to mass production of a new type of weapon, future legendary Katyushas.

In fact, it was from that moment that Barmin began to deal with launch complexes, first for jet, and then for missile weapons. And although it happened involuntarily, Vladimir Pavlovich never regretted that fate decreed it this way and not otherwise. Probably, he would have become a significant figure in the field of the refrigeration industry. But his biography would hardly be interesting to anyone, except for a narrow circle of specialists and historians. But the life and work of Barmin the Rocketeer is interesting to many.

But back to the war years.

Simultaneously with the order of the People's Commissar on the conversion of the Kompressor plant, a special design bureau (SKB) was created. Andrey Kostikov, who was also the head and chief designer of NII-3 (former RNII), was appointed chief designer of developments for jet weapons. Vladimir Barmin was appointed head of the SKB and deputy chief designer.

The launchers, created in the workshops of the RNII, were made at a handicraft level and could not be accepted by the plant for mass production in this design. Required constructive processing of many units of the installation, providing the possibility of using other technologies in mass production. For example, welded or cast structural elements, used mass-produced components, and so on. This work was launched by Barmin in the Special Design Bureau.

At the same time, the first friction arose between Kostikov and Barmin, which in a different situation could have ended very sadly for Vladimir Pavlovich. If not for his correctness in the decisions made. And the necessity of what he did for the country.

And the essence of the conflict was as follows. Kostikov, who did not have the knowledge and experience of working at factories, met with hostility any changes proposed by the SKB employees. Moreover, Barmin's persistence at some point began to irritate the chief designer. And when Barmin, after consulting with the developers of the rocket and agreeing with the responsible representative of the people's commissar in charge of the work, independently decided to put the revised drawings into production on the Compressor, Kostikov wrote a letter to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks demanding to remove his deputy from work .

As a result, by decision of Georgy Malenkov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Kostikov was removed from further management of the work of the Special Design Bureau and he was instructed to concentrate his work at NII-3. Barmin was appointed chief designer of the SKB at the Kompressor plant.

For Vladimir Pavlovich and the staff of the newly created design bureau, busy days began. With round-the-clock work, the design and technological processing of the documentation of the combat installation was carried out as soon as possible. Already on July 23, 1941, the Kompressor plant, according to the SKB drawings, manufactured and sent the first combat installation under the BM-13-16 index for field tests. After the successful completion of the tests, this combat vehicle was put into service in August 1941, and the drawings worked out in the Special Design Bureau were approved for mass production. By the beginning of December 1941, military units located near Moscow were armed with 415 such installations. At a time when the enemy was on the outskirts of Moscow, the Special Design Bureau developed a new design for a 24-round launcher on the chassis of T-40 (T-60) light tanks for M-8 rockets.

At the end of the summer of 1941, another important task for wartime was set before Barmin - to design two types of armored trains armed with M-13 and M-8 rockets in the shortest possible time. Despite seemingly insurmountable difficulties, the work was done, and already in November 1941, armored trains were brought to the Moscow Ring Railway and played an important role in the defense of the capital.

Later, under the leadership of Barmin, a number of launchers were created, including the improved BM-13N combat vehicle, which became the main multiply charged launcher of the Red Army until the end of World War II.

In total, during the war years, under the leadership of Barmin, 78 types of experimental and experimental designs of launchers BM-13, BM-8, BM-8-36, BM-8-48, BM-31-12 and others were developed and manufactured, of which 36 types were in service. These installations were mounted on all types of land and water vehicles capable of transporting them, including railway platforms, sea and river boats, sledges and skis. By the end of the war, about 3,000 rocket launchers were involved on all fronts.
The country's leadership highly appreciated the work of the SKB at the Kompressor plant.

Many of its employees were awarded orders and medals. The merits of Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin were awarded the Orders of Lenin, Kutuzov I degree, the Red Banner of Labor, the medals "For the Defense of Moscow" and "For the Liberation of Warsaw", he was awarded the title of laureate of the Stalin Prize of the I degree.

The experience that Barmin acquired while working at the Special Design Bureau at the Kompressor plant turned out to be extremely necessary at a time when it became necessary to get acquainted with the “rocket heritage” of the Nazis. Immediately after the surrender of Germany, the top leadership of the USSR decided to send several groups of Soviet specialists to the Soviet zone of occupation to study this equipment and the means of its production. Among them was Barmin, who received the military rank of colonel on this occasion.

When the scale of the work to be done became clear, it was decided to create a number of institutes in the occupied territory, where it was supposed to gather specialists and German rocket scientists who had arrived from the USSR and were ready to cooperate with the new authorities. Barmin became the technical director of one of these institutes, called "Berlin". Under his leadership, specialists were engaged in the search and restoration of technical documentation and ready-made samples of ground equipment for German rockets V-2, Wasserfel, Schmeterling and others.

In Germany, Barmin met Sergei Korolev, Valentin Glushko, Nikolai Pilyugin and other future creators of rocket technology in our country. There they first began to interact. This cooperation, which seemed temporary at that time, took shape for many years and produced results that were striking in their historical consequences.

On May 13, 1946, the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR was issued, which set the task of creating missile weapons in the country, identified the main implementing organizations and appointed their leaders. The SKB at the Kompressor plant was transformed into the State Union Design Bureau for Special Machine Building (GSKB Spetsmash, from the mid-1960s - the Design Bureau of General Machine Building, KBOM), it became the country's leading design bureau for the creation of launch, handling, refueling and auxiliary ground equipment of missile systems. Barmin, as the head and chief designer of GSKB Spetsmash, became one of the members of the Council of Chief Designers, headed by Korolev.

The prototype of the first domestic R-1 missile system was the German V-2, which is being recreated in our country, taking into account changes in climatic operating conditions and the capabilities of the country's industry. This work, in addition to fulfilling the main task, at the same time became the first stage in the development of new equipment by industrial enterprises and the acquisition of experience in operating this equipment by parts of the Soviet army.

Almost simultaneously with the work on the ground equipment building and the launch site for the R-1 rocket, work was launched to create ground equipment for the R-2 rocket. In 1951, the design bureau led by Barmin successfully completed the work of creating launch complexes for the S-25 anti-aircraft missile system with V-300 surface-to-air missiles. After carrying out field and flight design tests of the R-1 in 1950 and the R-2 at the end of 1951, as part of the missile system, they were adopted by the Soviet army.

Since 1947, under the leadership of Barmin, launch complexes for R-11, R-5, R-5M missiles, the first domestic missile with a nuclear warhead, were developed. For this work, Vladimir Pavlovich was awarded the Order of Lenin and awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

At the same time, in the Barmin Design Bureau, work continued on the creation of combat multiple launch rocket launchers - the heirs of the Katyushas. Ten combat vehicles were developed, four of which were put into service in the post-war period. Barmin "got rid" of this topic only in 1956, when the amount of work on rocket topics became so large that there was no time and energy left for other work.

In 1957, work was completed on the launch complex for the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7. For the implementation of this important government task, Barmin, among other chief designers, became a laureate of the Lenin Prize. Subsequently, on the basis of the Seven, a whole family of space launch vehicles was created: Sputnik, Luna, Vostok, Molniya, Voskhod, Soyuz. With their help, the world's first artificial Earth satellite, the first lunar explorers, the first automatic interplanetary stations to Venus and Mars, the first man...

In the 1960s-1980s, Barmin was involved in the creation of both combat missile systems and launch pads for space vehicles. With his participation, silo launch complexes for combat missiles R-12, R-14, R-9A, UR-100 were created. Under his leadership, launch complexes for Proton launch vehicles and the Energiya-Buran reusable space system were developed.

There are in the luggage of the designer Barmin and other works that have remained in the annals of space exploration. One of them is the creation of automatic installations for working in the conditions of the planets of the solar system and for the production of inorganic materials and biologically active substances in space. To study the surface of the Moon and Venus, ground sampling devices (GZU) were designed at the Barmin Design Bureau. With the help of one of these devices (GZU LB-09), a sample of the lunar pound was taken from a depth of about 2.5 meters without disturbing the order of rock occurrence and delivered to Earth (1976). Thanks to the use of GZU VB-02, soil samples were taken at three points on the surface of Venus and scientific information on the chemical composition of the rocks of Venus was received and transmitted via radio channel to Earth (1982 and 1985).

But, perhaps, Barmin's most striking work was the world's first detailed project of a long-term habitable base on the Moon. In the literature, it is often referred to as "Barmingrad", although in official documents it goes under the designation "DLB" (Long-term lunar base), and in OKB-1 (the team of the design bureau led by the Queen acted as the customer) he was known under the name "Star".

It was assumed that the place for the future base would be chosen using automatic devices. The site will be mapped from the orbiting satellite of the Moon, then the unmanned station will take samples of the pound and deliver them to Earth, after which the area of future construction will be examined by lunar rovers. At the end of the stage of remote study of the proposed territory of the base, an expedition of four people on a "lunar train" was to go to the Moon.

The "Moon Train" was intended for the construction of a temporary town, and after its completion - for "travels" around the surroundings. It was supposed to include a tractor, a residential trailer, an isotope power plant with a capacity of 10 kW and a drilling rig. The undercarriage of all these machines was like that of moon rovers: each wheel had its own electric motor, due to which the failure of one or even several of the 22 motors did not paralyze the overall progress. For meteoric, thermal and ultraviolet protection of the habitable premises of the train, a three-layer body was developed.

The total weight of the "moon train" is 8 tons. The main task of the crew was to be geological research: first - to select sites for the town and the cosmodrome, then - to solve scientific issues. For the convenience of work, pound samples could be collected by manipulators, without going to the surface.

The "Lunar City" was supposed to be built from nine modules, each of which had its own purpose - laboratory, storage, residential and others. The length of each block is 8.6 meters, the diameter is 3.3 meters, the gross weight is 18 tons. The population of the "lunar city" is 12 people.

At the factory, the block was to be made shortened, in the form of a metal accordion 4.5 meters long - to fit the dimensions of the transport ship. On the Moon, at a construction site, air had to be supplied to the accordion under pressure, the structure would move apart, and the block would grow to 8.6 meters.

A prototype of one of these units was used in 1967 during an experiment on a one-year stay of a group of researchers in a closed environment, conducted at the Institute of Biomedical Problems.

The Zvezda program was seen as a continuation of the Soviet manned lunar program. Therefore, when the specialists failed to get ahead of the Americans in the lunar race and the program was closed, work on Barmingrad was also curtailed.

Until the early 1990s, the program was kept in the archives under the heading "top secret". The very fact of its existence was denied. However, like all other projects to send a Soviet man to the moon. And only in modern Russia was it “allowed” to tell the general public about the “lunar city”.

In addition to his core work, Vladimir Pavlovich paid much attention to scientific and pedagogical activities. From 1931 he taught at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, from 1934 he supervised course and diploma projects carried out by students, in 1938 he developed and taught the course "Calculation and design of reciprocating compressors". And in 1959 he created the Department of "Launching Missile Systems" at this university and headed it for 30 years.

In the early 1970s, of the two and a half thousand people who worked at that time for Barmin at KBOM, about 800 employees were graduates of this department.

Author of many scientific papers devoted to the development of the foundations of high pressure and low temperature technology, as well as the foundations for building complex machine-building complexes; research of electric drives, compressor and refrigeration units; creation of space-rocket and combat launch complexes. In 1957, Barmin was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1992 - RAS), and in 1966 he became a full member of the academy.

Vladimir Pavlovich was the honorary president of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics, a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, honorary president of the Thomas Edison International Association of Scientists, Engineers and Inventors.

Until his last days, Barmin lived in Moscow. He died on July 17, 1993. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. The main belt asteroid (22254) Vladbarmin is named after him. In the city of Baikonur there is Academician Barmin Street. In 1999, a memorial plaque was opened at the intersection of Barmin and Abay streets, and in 2001 a square was laid out at this place, where a monument was erected to him. And the stele with a memorial plaque was moved to the intersection of Barmina and Gagarin streets.

After the death of Vladimir Pavlovich, his son, Igor, who headed the KBOM, continued his work. He is very similar to his father. Not only outwardly, but also in their attitude to the cause, which the Barmins served and serve.

Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin

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