Boris Vladimirovich Lupkin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor of the Department of Aircraft Production Technology at the National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute” (KAI), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, has passed away, the university announced.
According to the KhAI, Lupkin was born in 1939, graduated from the KhAI in 1963, and began his career at the Kyiv Aviation Plant, where he worked as an engineer. He later worked for many years at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Aviation Technology in Kyiv, and in 1983, he became the head of the institute.
The university noted that Lupkin participated in the development of heat-shielding tiles for the Buran orbital spacecraft. From 1995 to 1999, he worked as chief inspector-consultant to the Administration of the President of Ukraine, and in 2002 he returned to the KhAI as a professor. He was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology in 1995.
