Grigori Tokaty

Grigori Tokaty
Born(1909-10-13)13 October 1909
Seker, Terek Oblast, Russian Empire
Died23 November 2003(2003-11-23) (aged 94)
Cheam, Surrey, England
NationalityOssetian
Alma materZhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
Known forAerodynamics and rocket technology
SpouseAza Baeva
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

Grigory Aleksandrovich Tokaev (Ossetian: Токаты Ахмæты фырт Гогки, romanized: Tokaty Axmæty fyrt Gogki; Russian: Григорий Александрович Токаев) also known as Grigory Tokaty; (13 October 1909 – 23 November 2003) was a Soviet rocket scientist and politician. Eventually turned anti-communist, he defected to the United Kingdom and became a long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR.[1]

During his time in Britain, he also worked to create material for the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which promoted anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War.[2]

  1. ^ "The National Archives Learning Curve | Leaders & Controversies | Stalin & industrialisation | How?".
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