Talk:Georgy Langemak

Katyusha designer

He is chiefly remembered for being the co-designer (with Sergei Korolev) and directing the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher that was used with such success during World War II.

This seems wrong. It appears that he co-designed the rockets and launch rails used on aircraft, but died before development of the Katyusha artillery launchers began. I'll update this accordingly, but please correct if I have misunderstood. —Michael Z. 2008-08-04 19:41 z

Korolev had no involvement in the Katyusha rocket project. DonPMitchell (talk) 21:57, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Wrong date

"June 26 (N.S. July 8), 1898" He was born July 8, 1898 O.S., it is July 20 N.S., check e.g. https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ Arkony (talk) 10:28, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Corrections

• He was arrested not by government, but by NKVD. These were two different branches of power that made their own decisions.
• "Trumped up charges" can not be the reason for arrest and repressions. The real reason for starting this process was denunciation by A. Kostikov, in which he claimed Langemark was sabotaging the research and development progress. More of that denunciation letter is cited on russian wiki page Костиков, Андрей Григорьевич, cited from "Андрей Ваганов. Георгий Лангемак, который придумал термин «космонавтика». НГ-Наука, среда 24 апреля 2019 года".
• There's no credible reference to torture or mocking the trial in the article. For now I'm removing these sentences. If these can be confirmed, please provide a link to some source material. He was judged by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in january 11, 1938 and sentenced to execution by shooting.
• He was not designing BM-13 rockets, these were later derived from those which he designed.

I've added these corrections to the text. The source I am using it's in Russian and self-published, but it's the best we've got on his arrest and trial as of now, considering it providing magnitudes more information on the matter than before. 92.100.132.125 (talk) 18:16, 5 September 2020 (UTC)