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Friedrich Arturowitsch Zander (Canders)
* 1887 Riga/Livonia, Russian
Empire
+ 1933 Kislowodsk/Soviet Union
Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander was a Baltic German
pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight
in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the
Soviet Union, GIRD-X,
and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to
space.
2021 J. Giesen