Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky (Russian: Оле́г Ге́нрихович Ивано́вский; 18 January 1922 – 18 September 2014) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program who played a pioneering role in spacecraft construction.
Ivanovsky graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1953. Designer-General Sergei Korolev recruited him into the Soviet space program. Ivanovsky rose to chief designer at OKB-1, Korolev's design bureau. Among other things he was deputy principal designer of the first and second Sputniks, principal designer of Vostok manned spaceships, and creator of space probes. Ivanovsky personally helped Yuri Gagarin mount the gantry and climb into Vostok 1 and helped rebolt the hatch after Gagarin complained that it had not been closed and sealed correctly. He was said to be the last person to shake Gagarin's hand before the Vostok 1 flight. Ivanovsky was the Recipient of the Lenin Prize (1960) and USSR State Prize (1977).
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Date: 19 January 1922
Special to The New York Times
ALBANY, Jan. 18.--Addressing members of the New York State Publishers' Association at a luncheon given today at the Hotel Ten Eyck, Governor Miller laid stress on the importance of accurate reporting of the news, because public opinion was formed on the basis of what appears in the news columns rather than on the editorial page.
Date: 18 January 1922
Special to The New York Times
ALBANY, Jan. 17.--A proposal for a Constitutional amendment to pave the way for the transfer to the Court of Appeals of the pardoning power now voted in the Governor has been prepared by Assemblyman Charles H. Betts, Republican, of Wayne County, ...
Date: 18 January 1922
By Elmer Davis. Special To the New York Times
Elmer Davis
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.--Half way through the tenth week of the conference, and the statesmen are plugging along like a Ford runabout through the mud of a country road--getting somewhere, but slowly, and not altogether certain that they will come out at the place they started for.