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    The Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (also 'Group for the Investigation of Reactive Engines and Reactive Flight' and 'Jet Propulsion...
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  • experiments carried out by members of the 'Group for the Study of Reactive Motion' (better known by its Russian acronym "GIRD") in the 1930s, where Zander, Korolev...
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    established on 21 September 1933 by combining the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) with the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL). Personnel based...
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    Mikhail Tikhonravov (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
    devoted himself to the development of the field of rocketry. In 1932, he joined Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), as one of the four brigade leaders...
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  • also known as the great rhombidodecahedron, a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U73 GIRD (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion), former Soviet...
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    Gas Dynamics Laboratory (category Research institutes in the Soviet Union)
    GDL. At the end of 1933 GDL merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) to become the Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII). Nikolai...
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    formed the Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion, better known by its Russian acronym “GIRD”. Zander, who idolized Tsiolkovsky and the German...
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    Valentin Glushko (category Members of the Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    member of the Reactive Scientific Research Institute, founded in Moscow in 1931 when GDL merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)...
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    Friedrich Zander (category Engineers from the Russian Empire)
    courses at the Moscow Aviation Institute during this time. In 1931, Zander was a founding member of GIRD (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion) (Группа...
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    participated in the creation of the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), one of the earliest state-sponsored centers for rocket development in the USSR...
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