{"id":2368,"date":"2025-11-26T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:33:09","slug":"iskander-and-topol-launcher-designer-passes-away-aged-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/iskander-and-topol-launcher-designer-passes-away-aged-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Iskander and Topol launcher designer passes away aged 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Decorated engineer and scientist Valerian Sobolev headed the development of multiple missile and strategic systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The designer of the Iskander and Topol missile launcher systems, legendary engineer Valerian Sobolev, has passed away at the age of 87, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing a family friend.<\/p>\n<p>He died in his home city of Volgograd on Tuesday after a lengthy battle with an illness.<\/p>\n<p>Over his long career, Sobolev climbed from working as an engineer at a tractor plant to serving as chief designer at the Titan Design Bureau, now a subsidiary of Russian space giant Roscosmos.<\/p>\n<p>At the bureau, he led the development of launchers and ground equipment for the mobile Iskander cruise missile, as well as the Topol intercontinental ballistic missile system, a key component of the USSR\u2019s \u2013 and now Russia\u2019s \u2013 nuclear triad. Upgraded Iskander missiles have seen extensive use in the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<figure>\n        <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6927261985f54036cb06a432.jpg\"><figcaption>\n                                    Launching the Iskander-M ballistic missile system.<\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"copyright\"><br \/>\n                      \u00a9\u00a0Sputnik                                                           <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His work earned him major state honors, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the USSR State Prize, and the Lenin Prize.<\/p>\n<figure>\n        <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692725ff20302741cb7ad6e9.jpg\"><figcaption>\n                                    Rocket launch of the Topol complex.<\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"copyright\"><br \/>\n                      \u00a9\u00a0Wikipedia                                                           <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6919a6d685f54041cf0820e9.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/627855-russian-iskander-missile-hits-ukrainian-himars\/\">Russian Iskander missile hits Ukrainian HIMARS \u2013 MOD (VIDEO)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sobolev was born in pre-war Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1938. He graduated from the Stalingrad Mechanical Institute in 1960, first working as a tractor engineer before moving into defense manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>He made significant contributions to science and held over 190 invention copyright certificates and patents. He tackled a broad range of scientific pursuits, including housing construction and aerospace developments.<\/p>\n<p>Sobolev also held a series of regional and national government posts from 1989 to 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decorated engineer and scientist Valerian Sobolev headed the development of multiple missile and strategic systems The designer of the Iskander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}