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Kirill Shcholkin

Born

in Tbilisi, Georgia

May 17, 1911

Died

November 08, 1968

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Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin (Russian: Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин) was a Soviet Georgian physicist known for his theoretical and experimental advances in combustion and gas dynamics, for his work on the first Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and for his role as the first scientific director of the Soviet nuclear weapons development centre in the Urals at Chelyabinsk-70 and deputy scientific director of the Soviet atomic bomb project.