Klavdiya Kildsheva

Kildsheva was born on 6 March 1917 in the city of Vyazma (in what is now the Smolensk region) to a railroad worker. She finished school in 1934 and went on to study at the University of Moscow in the Mechanical - Mathematical Faculty. Kildsheva graduated in 1940 and went on to work in Moscow in the experimental design office Andrei Tupolev completing strength calculations for aircraft. She moved to the A.S. Yakovlev Experimental Design Bureau in 1941. She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and from 1943 to 46 Kildsheva was the chair of the trade union committee for the war. Afterwards, in 1946, Kildsheva took up a position as deputy-chief of the laboratory for aircraft static tests. In 1949 she became deputy head and then in 1953 head of the research department of the OKB-115. In 1966 she was promoted to deputy head designer for research work. She worked on the ground tests for the Yak-9 to the Yak-42. Kildsheva retired in 1982 as a pensioner of national importance. She lived in Moscow and died on 2 May 1994. Kildsheva was buried at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
• Two Order of Lenin (1966 and 1981)
• Lenin Prize (1972)
• USS State Prize (1977)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1957)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1945)