B. Vorobjev. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Biography. Published by Molodaya Gvardiya, Moscow 1940.

Aeronautics of that time. Aeronautics in Russia. Tsiolkovsky's airship. Fight against the enemies of airship building. Tsiolkovsky and Schwartz. Space rocket.

Воздухоплавание того времени. Воздухоплавание в России. Дирижабль Циолковского. Борьба с врагами дирижаблестроения. Циолковский и Шварц. Космическая ракета.

Hard cover, 262 pages. In Russian.

Approx. size 130 x 170 mm.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857 – 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist who pioneered astronautic theory. Along with the Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Transylvanian German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket-engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, who contributed to the success of the Soviet space program.

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