page_title: Andronik Iosifyan
hierarchical_section_title: Andronik Iosifyan
caption_attribution_description: Andranik Iosifyan (1905-1993) - Chief Constructor of Meteorological Satellites
context_page_description: Andranik Gevondovich Iosifyan was a Soviet Armenian scientist in the field of electrical engineering.
  He is known as one of the founders of missilery, the chief constructor of the first Soviet Meteor meteorological satellites of earth, and the father of electromechanics in USSR. Iosifyan is the founder and the first director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics – the USSR's largest scientific research institute of electromechanics.
  Being one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production, Andranik Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's classified chief constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka by Sergei Korolev and the Vostok spacecraft. One of Iosifyan's most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology.
  Sergei Korolev called him the "chief electrician" of missile technology.
context_section_description: Andranik Gevondovich Iosifyan (Russian: Андроник Гевондович Иосифьян; born 21 July 1905 in Bazarkand, Kalbajar, Karabakh, died 13 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Armenian scientist in the field of electrical engineering. 
  He is known as one of the founders of missilery, the chief constructor of the first Soviet Meteor meteorological satellites of earth, and the father of electromechanics in USSR. Iosifyan is the founder and the first director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics (VNIIEM) – the USSR's largest scientific research institute of electromechanics. 
  Being one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production, Andranik Iosifyan for about thirty years was the USSR's classified chief constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka by Sergei Korolev and the Vostok spacecraft. One of Iosifyan's most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology.
  Sergei Korolev called him the "chief electrician" of missile technology.
caption: Andronik Iosifyan on a 2011 Armenian stamp
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