Igor Spassky

Spassky in 2016

Igor Dmitriyevich Spassky (Russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Спасский; 2 August 1926 – 3 September 2024) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, General Designer of nearly 200 Soviet and Russian nuclear submarines, and the head of the Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin.

Spassky was born in the town of Noginsk in the Moscow Region on 2 August 1926. In 1949 he graduated from the Engineering Department (паросиловой факультет) of Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering School [ru], after which he briefly served as lieutenant-engineer on the cruiser Frunze. Spasskiy died on 3 September 2024, at the age of 98.[1]