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The disciple of the
"father of Russian aviation" N. E. Zhukovsky, member of the Academy of Sciences
of Ukrainian SSR G. F. Proskura was an excellent expert in the field of aero and
hydrodynamics and hydro-technical engineering. He worked in KTI from 1902 to 1904, and
then in 1907 resumed his teaching work in KTI. In 1909 he read the first lecture in
Ukraine on the theory of aerostatics, which produced a huge interest on part of the
students, and initiates setting up of the Aerostatics Department in Kharkov, whose
periodical was "Heavier Than Air" magazine in which the lecturers from KTI could
publish their articles, and in 1912 in KTI he lead the construction of a closed wind
tunnel, one of the first ones to be built in Russia. |
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