Ivan Bubnov

Ivan Grigorevich Bubnov
Ivan Bubnov
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Navy
Years of service	1907-1917
Rank	Major general of the Corps of Naval Constructors

Ivan Grigorevich Bubnov (Template:Lang-ru, 18 January 1872 - 13 March 1919) was a Russian marine engineer and designer of submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy

Bubnov was born in Nizhni Novgorod and graduated from the Marine Enginnering College in Kronstadt in 1891. He graduated from the Nikolayev Marine Academy in 1896. He initially joined the Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg and worked as a constructor on the Battleship Poltava

In 1900 he was appointed Cheif Assistant at the Russian Admiralty test tank and was involved in the design of the first Russian submarine, the Delfin. In 1903 he became the Russian Admiralty's submarine designer and was responsible for the following submarine classes:

• Kasatka
• Minoga
• Akula
• Morzh
• Bars

In 1904 Bubnov became a lecturer at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. He was commissioned into the Navy in 1907 and was head of the Admiralty test tank between 1908 and 1904.

Bubnov was promoted to Major General of the Corps of Naval Constructors in 1912. Between 1912 and 1917 he was consultant to the Baltic Works in St Petersburg and Noblesser in Reval.

Bubnov died of typhoid in Petrograd in 1919

References

• This Article is sourced by translation from Russian Wikipedia