Chief designer of the Duga 'Woodpecker' radar
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The only biography found for him gives 3 November 1922. Franz Aleksandrovich Kuzminsky is born in the village of Pokotylove. He will become one of the Soviet Union's leading radar designers.
Kuzminsky becomes chief designer of the over-the-horizon radar programme at NIIDAR, the institute for long-distance radio communications, and turns to the problem of seeing beyond the horizon, detecting a missile launch by the radar echo bounced off the ionosphere.
Under Kuzminsky's leadership NIIDAR completes the outline design of the Duga (5N32) over-the-horizon radar and builds the experimental station that detects Baikonur launches at 2,500 km. He becomes NIIDAR's director in 1975.
Kuzminsky dies in 1991, the year the Soviet Union dissolves, two years after his greatest creation, the Woodpecker, fell silent over the shortwave bands. The rusting arrays outlive him.
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