Sergey Oulianine
Sergey Alekseevich Oulianine (, ( 1871, Moscow — 13 October 1921, London) was a Russian aircraft designer and military pilot, a pioneer of military use of aerial photography and commander of the Russian Air Force in 1917-1918. Life. Born into a family of gentry of the Moscow Governorate. The other spelling of the surname is Ulyanin. He spoke English, French, German, studied Spanish and Esperanto. Oulianine graduated from the 2nd Moscow Cadet Corps named after Nicholas I. In 1894 he finished 3rd Alexander Military school becoming an infantry podporuchik. In 1895 he started his aviation career after studying at the  Aeronautical Training Park in St. Petersburg and appointment to the aeronautical detachment of the Warsaw fortress, which he went on to command in 1905. In the same year 1895 Ouilanine started designing man-lifting kites to be used for military observation. A “kite train” of 7 to 10 conjoined kites of his design could lift four people. In 1904 Oulianine started research in remote control of aircraft, ships and land vehicles (in 1910 he patented a technology of remote control and in October 1915 a radio-controlled boat of his construction sailed from Kronstadt to Peterhof). In 1908, he was  granted a patent for a photo camera for automatic recording of photogrammetric data (in use until 1920s). In 1909, Oulianine designed a two-engine airplane with a combination of three planes. In 1910, Sergey Oulianine became one of seven Russian officers sent to France to train as an airplane pilot. On 9 August 1910 he was fourth Russian soldier and eighth Russian to obtain a pilot’s license in France (number 181). In early 1910 captain Sergey Oulianine joins the brothers Vladimir and Alexander Lebedev to create PTA (St. Petersburg Aviation Partnership) which received a government contract to design a  foldable plane that could be assembled within 2 hours. The reconnaissance plane PTA-1 was completed on 26 January 1911. It was based on Farman III but with a smaller wing area and a nacelle for the pilot and the observer. The aircraft received a prize at the St. Petersburg aeronautics exhibition of 1911. In 1912 he elaborated the terms of a competition of devices for dropping bombs from airplanes and balloons. He died on 13 October 1921 in London. Buried in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Awards. "Russian" "Foreign" Family. Son of a land owner in the village of Staraya Sitnya , Moscow Governorate Aleksey Oulianine (1817—1879). One of his siblings was Nikolay Oulianine (1850—1907), Engineer Major general, chief of the Central Asian Railway, killed in a terrorist attack during the revolution of 1905-1907. Sergey Oulianine was married twice. His first wife (1900) was Maria Mitrofanovna von Meyer (1878—1943), daughter of a nobleman, engineer Mitrofan von Meyer. Two children (Ludmila (1901—1977) and Irina (1906—1945) were born in this marriage. His second wife was Ludmila Mikhaylovna Martynova (1890—1970), daughter of the doctor Mikhail Martynov. The children born in this marriage were: