Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human
Collected paper Nikolay Zhukovsky. Theoretical basis aeronautics.
Stamp from the USSR Aviation series 1963 dedicated to Zhukovsky (CFA 2915, Scott 2774)
The graves of Nikolai Egorovich, Elena and Sergei Zhukovsky