Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev (December 18, 1916, Novozybkov, Bryansk Oblast, Imperial Russia – February 9, 1980, Nizhny Novgorod, USSR) was a designer of highspeed shipbuilding. He invented and designed the world's first Ekranoplans. His work has been compared to that of A.N. Tupolev in aviation and S.P. Korolev in space flight. Wikipedia
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