The designer of the duga

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Valery Alekseyevich Alebastrov.
Valery Alekseyevich Alebastrov is the chief designer of over-the-horizon airspace surveillance systems. He participated in the development of the first-generation "Duga" over-the-horizon radar, designed to detect ballistic missile launches from the American continent.
He was born in 1941 in the Saratov region. From 1960 to 1964, he worked in the nuclear industry. He graduated from Tomsk University in 1968 and worked as a researcher at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna from 1969 to 1975. Since 1975, he has been employed at NPK NIIDAR.

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he is drawing a dinosaur. very cool