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Article: Religion, science, Russia: an interview with Boris Raushenbakh.(Interview)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- February 28, 1996
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The 50-year career of physicist Boris Viktorovich Raushenbakh has been marked by spectacular scientific achievements and--in the context of Soviet Russia--an unusual defense of religion. In the late 1930s he was a victim of the terror that engulfed Soviet society and decimated the scientific establishment. He spent World War II in prison camp laboratories, where he worked in missile technology. In prison be met Sergei Petrovich Korolev, who later became one of the pioneers of the Soviet space age and chief designer of Sputnik I.
In the glory years of Soviet space research, Raushenbakh become the Soviet Union's leading expert in the automatic control of jet engines ...