Academician Igor Spassky, who worked for a long time as a general designer at the Rubin Central Marine Engineering Design Bureau (TsKB MT), has passed away at the age of 98, TASS reports, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.
“Igor Dmitrievich Spassky is dead” – said the agency’s interlocutor.
The Governor of St. Petersburg expressed his condolences on the death of Spassky. Alexander Beglov.
“For decades, Igor Dmitrievich Spassky not only created new generations of submarines, but also maintained a team of like-minded people, passing on his invaluable experience to them. He formed a whole school of scientists and designers who continue his work today. An honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, Igor Dmitrievich has always been in the city. He preserved his design bureau and made it the best in the country. A true patriot of Leningrad-Petersburg, he helped restore historical monuments, created new unique spaces and carried out large-scale charitable work. His legacy is not only the technology, which is still ahead of its time, but also the people whom he inspired by his example.” – Beglov noted.
From 1983 to 2007 he held the position of General Designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering. According to the projects created under the leadership of Igor Spassky, more than 200 nuclear and diesel-electric submarines were built, in particular: strategic nuclear submarine cruisers of Project 667BDR “Kalmar”, Project 941 “Akula”, Project 667BDRM “Dolphin”, nuclear submarine missile cruisers of projects 949 “Granit” and 949A “Antey”, diesel-electric submarines of projects 877, 636.
In 2018, Spassky was awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Russian Federation, Hero of Socialist Labor (1978), holder of two Orders of Lenin (1970, 1978), Order of the October Revolution (1986), two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Russian Orders of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree (2002), Honor (2010).
