Marat Tishchenko

Dr. Tishchenko was a Distinguished Visiting Faculty member at Maryland from 1998 to 2007.

During his career, he developed helicopters that affected the course of international affairs around the globe for five decades. He oversaw development for the most prolific designs to emerge from the Soviet Union’s Mil design bureau, and succeeded Mikhail Mil as the bureau’s chief designer in 1970. His greatest achievement was in modifying helicopters to contain the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor in 1986.