1900 January 17

Born, Lublin, Russia

1916-1920

Imperial Naval Academy, Russia

1916-1920

Active duty as midshipman, second mate, second officer

1923

Graduated, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1934-1943

Assistant chief engineer, Shiuchow Aircraft Works, Kwantung, China

1943-1948

Chief engineer, Helicopter & Propulsion research division, McDonnell Aircraft Corp.

1950-1956

Director of Engineering, Product engineering department, United States Naval Ordnance Experimental Unit, Potomac River Naval Command

1956

Received U.S. Navy distinguished civilian service award

1987

Died, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Box Nos

Series

1

Biographical file, 1920-1987 and undated.
Affidavit, applications, biographical sketches, calling cards, certificates, estate documents, funeral dispositions, licenses, membership cards, Morskoe uchilishche documents, identification documents, travel documents, and vaccination records. Arranged alphabetically by physical form

1-8
(2.8 linear feet)

Correspondence, 1923-1989 and undated.
Cards and letters, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

8

Speeches and writings, 1947-1967 and undated.
Articles, clippings, notes, report, speech, arranged chronologically by title

8-9

Writings by others, 1933-1985 and undated.
Arranged alphabetically by author

9-16
(2.5 linear feet)

Subject file, 1924-1985 and undated.
Applications, articles, blueprints, brochures, bulletins, catalog, certificates, clippings, contracts, correspondence, drafts, government documents, invoices, lectures, lists, maps, memos, minutes, notes, patents, printed matter, prints, receipts, report, arranged alphabetically by subject

16-17

Photographs, 1915-1984 and undated.
Three hundred seventy two prints, eighteen negatives, eighteen copies

18-38
(8.3 linear feet)

Printed matter, undated.
Twenty manuscript boxes of unsorted clippings – not filmed.

Box Nos

Folder Nos

Contents

1.

Biographical file, 1920-1987 and undated

1

Affidavit, 1982

2

Applications, employment and related, 1920-1969 and undated. Includes related correspondence and notes

3

Biographical sketches and related data, 1924-1978 and undated. Includes clipping

4

Calling cards

5

Certificates, licenses, 1920-1982 and undated

6

Estate description, undated

7

Family file, 1946-1958 and undated. Zakharchenko, Mary. Clipping, notes, photocopy of baptismal certificate

8

Funeral arrangement dispositions, 1979-1983

9

Membership cards, 1958-1987 and undated

10

Morskoe uchilishche documents, undated photocopies of originals dated 1920

11

Identification documents, 1920-29 and undated

12

Travel documents, 1940-1943 and undated

13

Vaccination records, 1939-1942

Correspondence, 1923-1989 and undated

General

14

Condolences, 1951-1985

Morskoe uchilishche alumni

15

1947-1969 and undated

16

1970-1985

17

Unidentified, 1923-1985 and undated

18

Adams, Eleanor, 1984

2.

1

Aksakov, Sergei, 1973-1985 and undated

2

Aleksander, Eveline and Petr. Includes clippings and two short stories

3

Aleksandrov, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1962-1985 and undated

4

Alekseev, Viktoriia, undated

5

Althausen, Theodore L., 1974-1986 and undated. Includes family photographs, typescript of short story

6

Ambler, Ernest, 1984

7

American Astronautical Association, 1958-1980

8

American Ordnance Association, 1957

9

American Society for Russian Naval History, 1958-1972

10

Ansah, Samuel, 1979

11

Astin, Allen V. and Margaret, 1953

12

Aviation Week & Space Technology, 1977

13

Beauchamp, Gerry, Captain, 1935-1978 and undated. Includes correspondence relating to the Shiuchow Aircraft Works in China, and typescript as well as printed copy of memoirs relating to aircraft development in China

14

Belavenets, Ivan, 1953-1961 and undated. Includes five prints

15

Bert, Gordon N. le, 1972-1980 and undated. Includes copies of articles and drafts of memoirs relating to James McDonnell

16

Bevier, Louis, 1944

17

Borodin, B., 1976

3.

1

Brookes, Evelyn, 1931

2

Butakov, V., 1970-1981 and undated

3

Bryant, John H., 1963, 1980

4

Chaiko, Marguerite and Walter, 1964-1985

5

Chan, Wing Kon, 1967-1984

6

Charles, Robert Horne, 1948

7

Chekhov Publishing House, 1951-1956

8

Chien, C. T., 1950-1977. Includes Chien’s autobiography in Chinese, and three prints

9

Chinese Air Force, 1945-1960. Includes two prints, and clippings

10

Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, 1972

11

Chulanovskii, Ivan, 1965-1977

12

Cooperative Forum, 1957-1973

13

Cowling, James G., 1964-1982 and undated

14

Cox, Gertrude, undated

15

Crumb, Carl, 1970

16

Danilov, N., 1968-1975

17

Day, C. H., 1948-1967

18

District of Columbia Society of Professional Engineers, Inc., 1955-1975

19

Diehl, Walter S., 1970

20

Doberly Dobroliubov, V. J., 1951

21

Doblhoff, F. L. von, 1958

22

Dolgikh, Aleksandr, 1970-1981

23

Dooley, L. R., 1948

24

Drage, Charles, 1954-1970 and undated. Includes clippings

25

Durant, Frederick C., 1958

26

Edwards, Martin L, 1954

27

Elfenbein, J. A., 1964

28

Endersby, Victor A., 1970-1979

29

Erdman, Frank H., 1958

Fedorov, Konstantin

30

1960-1969

4.

1

1970-1974

2

Folkert, Vsevolod, 1982 and undated

3

Furnas, C. C., 1948-1973

4

Gail, Albert, 1948

5

Garin, Aleksei Nikolaevich, 1959-1984 and undated

6

Gavrishev, Boris Ivanovich, 1955-1961

7

General Motors Engineering Staff, 1971-1973

8

Gering, Aleksei A., 1971

9

Glad, Andy, 1967-1976 and undated

10

Gladkevich, Nikolai, undated

11

Goodman, John, 1982-1983 and undated

12

Gordev, G. V., 1975-1983

13

Greene, William L., 1944

14

Hadary, Caroline H., 1980

15

Hiller Helicopters, 1951

16

Holloway, Joe T., undated

17

Hooper, Edwin B., 1960-1981

18

Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, 1975-1984

19

Hopper (?), Wale C., undated

20

Hyatt, Abraham, 1960 and undated

21

Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, 1948-1975 and undated

22

Islamov, Il’ia, 1972

23

Iunakov, Mikhail A., 1981

Iur’eva Cowling, Militsa. See Correspondence/Yurieva, Militsa

24

Ivanovskii, Arsenii, 1961 and undated

25

Kaiser, Kim, 1959

26

Kaloucek, Walter, undated

27

Kazanskii, Lev and Vladimir, 1975 and undated

28

Khotuntsov, Sergei Ivanovich, 1977

29

Kibort, Leonid, 1945-1982 and undated

30

Kingham, Elizabeth Winks, 1961 and undated

31

Koltypin, Petr N., 1980

32

Korcyn-Zukowski, Borys, 1976-1985. Includes newspaper clippings

33

Korvin-Krukovskii, B. V., 1968-1980

34

Korvin-Krukovskii, Evgeniia A., 1960-1979

35

Kostenko, Vladimir, 1965

5.

1

Krone, Norris, undated

2

Kulish, Sergei Vasil’evich, 1923

3

Kumasheva, Elizaveta, 1975-1976 and undated

4

Lamm, R. A., 1953-1984. Includes newspaper clippings

5

LePage, Wynn Laurence, 1958

6

Lesley and Roberts Tailors, 1953-1967

7

Lester, E. M., 1958

8

Lewis, Will A., 1960

9

Lipow, Eugene G., Dr., undated

10

Louie, Harry, 1966-1985

11

Lym, Sarah, 1966

12

Lynn Chu, General, 1943 and undated

13

Mack Motor Truck Company, 1956

14

Mclaurin Fund, 1980-1985

15

Madden, James J., 1981 and undated

16

Magerovskii, Lev Florianovich, 1972

17

Maidanovich, N. L., 1978-1981

18

Malley, P. Garnet, 1977-1984

19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971-1985 and undated

20

McDaniel, Randall, 1983

21

Medvedev, Nikolai Ivanovich, 1958-1964

22

Meyer, Vera F., 1980

23

Midwest Research Institute, 1953

24

Miller, Rene H., 1944-1985

25

National Maritime Musuem, 1960

26

National Broadcasting Company, 1983

27

Nedler, S., 1976 and undated

28

New York Times, 1972

29

Nielsen, A. F., 1964-1985

30

Oberg, James E., 1956-1981. Includes newspaper clippings

31

Ohio State University, 1956-1959

32

Oliveri, Harriet, 1979

33

Patterson, A. L., 1948-1985

34

Patterson, W. C., 1954

35

Pearce, Susan, 1982-1983

36

Prokhorov, Viktor, 1959-1984

37

Quaritch, Bernard, 1953

38

Rao, Dhanvanda M., 1981

39

Richardson, Bellows, Henry & Company, Inc., 1956-1957

40

Reaction Motors, Inc., 1946-1947

41

Reynardson, Birch, undated

42

Ritchie, D. J., 1959-1978

6.

1

Russian Naval Officers Association, 1923-1984 and undated. Includes newspaper clippings, one negative, and two prints

2

Russian Student Fund, 1955-1965

3

Salerno, Miriam, 1942-1985 and undated. Includes clippings, notes and related materials on Malta

4

Scherberg, Max, 1950

5

Schroeder, Henry, 1955

6

Schwarz, Dr., 1984

7

Scott, Alan, 1959

8

Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, 1956

9

Security Storage Company, 1986

10

Senkevich, A., 1958

11

Shakhovskaia, Kseniia, undated

12

Sharpe, Mitchell R., 1972-1974. Includes two negatives, and eight prints

13

Sheldon, D., undated

14

Shemanskii, Iurii A., 1974-1982. Includes nine prints

15

Sheng, James, 1953-1984 and undated. Includes five prints

16

Sheremet’ev, Sergei, undated

17

Shimanovskii, Iurii Olegovich, 1983-1985.

18

Simons, Richard W., 1962-1966

19

Siu, Henry M., 1964

20

Slattery, Frank P., 1946

21

Smith, Stanley G., 1956

22

Sokolovskii, Sergei, 1970

23

Solonevich, Boris, 1963-1981. Includes six prints

24

St. Joseph’s Nursing Home, 1981

25

St. Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, D.C., 1961-1981

26

St. Thomas Apostolic Church, 1983-1984

27

Starkovskii, Nikolai, 1961-1971

28

Staub, Nancy L., 1980-1984 and undated. See also Photographs/Staub, Nancy

29

Stepanov, Alla and Vladimir, 1975

30

Sterhardt, Mrs., 1974

31

Stogov, P. E., 1969

32

Sukhanov, Ivan Mikhailovich, undated

33

Sukhanova-Watson, Mariia, 1974

34

Sutherland, J. F., 1979-1980

35

Swift, Margaret, 1982-1984

36

Tarbox, Elmer L., 1956-1961

37

Thayes, John B., 1943

38

Tolley, Kemp, 1963

7.

1

Tolstaia, E., 1957-1962

2

Tower, Jeremiah, 1970-1985. Includes two prints. See also Subject file/Tower, Jeremiah

3

Tower, W. S., Jr., undated

4

Turkerman, Lucien P., 1970

5

United States Naval Academy, 1962-1963, 1975

6

United States Naval Institute, 1953, 1973 and undated

7

University of Wyoming, Transportation History Foundation, 1970-1981

8

Vesper, Gerald W., 1974

9

Vesselago, George M., 1958

10

Viazemskaia, Ol’ga Dmitrievna, 1961-1964

11

Visochin, Vladimir V., 1961-1977

12

Vladimir (Sukhobok), Abbott, 1980

13

Vuckovic, Jovica, 1977

14

Wadkovsky, Basil, 1928

15

Ward, Roger, 1946-1969

16

Washington Star, 1977-1980

17

Weiss, Harry, 1958

18

Werlich, Robert, 1966-1969

19

Whitcomb, K. H., 1923

20

White House, 1958-1977. Includes newspaper clippings

21

Winder Aircraft Corporation, 1954

22

Winter, John, 1956-1975

23

Withington, Frederic S., 1961-1982 and undated. Includes newspaper clippings

24

Woodward, Harper, 1958-1979

25

Yuen, Frank Der, 1953-1985

26

Yurieva, Militsa, 1929-1974 and undated

27

Zagurskii, Nikolai, 1948-1964

28

Zaionchkovskii, Aleksei Ivanovich, 1955-1976

29

Zakhartchenko, Mary, 1944-1946

30

Zakhartchenko, Nina L’vovna, 1962-1989 and undated. Includes seven prints

8.

1

Zelenoy, Militsa, 1983-1984

2

Zimmermann, P. G., 1956-1962

3

Zorov, Vladimir M., 1965 and undated

Speeches and writings, 1947-1967 and undated

4

Notes, 1968 and undated

5

Untitled speech on the development of helicopters, 1947. Typescript

6

“Singapurskaia ekspeditsiia na shesterke v aprele 1920 g.,” undated. Clipping

7

“Stars or obscurity,” 1952. Typescript

8

“Helicopter Rotor Construction,” 1954. Typescript

9

“Comment and recommendations based on unclassified USSR literature relevant to guided missiles art,” 1957. Typescript

10

“Basic objectives of the Soviet space program,” 1959. Typescript

11

“Trends in Soviet space activities,” The Bendix corporation research laboratories division, Report No. 1881, 1961. Printed copy, includes related materials and newspaper clippings

12

“USSR strategic nuclear armament,” 1967. Typescript

Writings by others, 1933-1985 and undated

13-14

Chaiko, Michael V., “Vagabonds by choice. Last midshipmen of the imperial Russian navy,” 1958. Typescript, includes related correspondence and corrections entered in 1985

Feodoroff, Constantin

15

“As I remember it,” 1972. Typescript, includes related correspondence

16

“Block ships,” 1972. Typescript, includes related correspondence

17

“Blow, wind, blow,” undated. Typescript, pp. 1-180

9.

1

“Blow, wind, blow,” undated. Typescript, pp. 181-346

2

“Notes on labor question in U.S.S.R.,” 1963. Typescript, includes related correspondence and clipping

3

“The nations enslaved by communism,” 1964. Typescript

4

Garin, Aleksei N., “Stikhotvoreniia, 1915-1928,” 1974. Typescript, includes related correspondence and notes

5

Garina, Ekaterina, “Stikhotvoreniia, 1923-193…,” undated. Typescript

6

Gusev-Orenburgskii, Sergei Ivanovich, “Striela; razskaz,” 1933. Printed copy, signed by author. Includes related correspondence

7

Shemanskii, Iurii, “Crossing the equator in a ship’s boat,” 1981. Printed copy, includes three prints

8

Stepanov, Iu., “Pod poliarnoi zviezdoi,” 1930-1940. Photocopy of manuscript

Subject file, 1924-1985 and undated

9

Aeronautics. Military--China

10-15

Aerospace engineering--United States--20th century, 1924-1980 and undated. Includes blueprints, clippings, contracts, correspondence, drafts, government documents, notes, patents, prints

10.

1-12

Aerospace engineering--United States--20th century, 1924-1980 and undated. Includes blueprints, clippings, contracts, correspondence, drafts, government documents, notes, patents, prints

American Society for Russian Naval History, 1958-1965 and undated. Includes materials related to N. N. Aleksandrov, Dean of Holy Trinity Seminary. See also Subject file/Association of Russian Imperial Naval Officers in America, Inc.

13

General, 1959-1965 and undated

14

Certificate of incorporation, 1958-1965. Includes application for absolute charter, related correspondence, minutes and other materials

11.

1

Correspondence, 1958-1965 and undated

2

Anti-communist movements, 1979-1985 and undated. Brochures, clippings

Association of Russian Imperial Naval Officers in America, Inc. 1953-1982 and undated. See also Subject file/American Society for Russian Naval History

3

General, 1951-1974 and undated

Bulletin

4

1953-1957

5

1958-1963

6

1964-1966

7

1967-1969

8

1970-1972

12.

1

1973-1976

2

1977-1982

Morskogo uchilishcha vypusk 1920 goda

3

30 liet spustia, 1950. Printed copy, numbered 2

4

30 liet spustia. Dopolnenie No. 1, 1951. Printed copy, numbered 2

5

30 liet spustia. Dopolnenie No. 2, 1952. Printed copy, numbered 2

6

30 liet spustia. Dopolnenie No. 3, 1953. Printed copy, numbered 2

7

30 liet spustia. Dopolnenie No. 4, 1954. Printed copy, numbered 2

8

37 liet spustia, 1957. Printed copy, numbered 2

13.

1

38 liet spustia, 1958. Printed copy, numbered 2

2

40 liet spustia, 1960. Printed copy, numbered 2

3

46 liet spustia, 1966. Printed copy

4

Correspondence, 1954-1964 and undated. Letters addressed to Nikolai N. Aleksandrov

5

Lists, undated

6

Minutes of meetings, statutes, 1953-1972

7

Dissidents--USSR, 1972-1978. Clippings

8

Education—Soviet Union, 1957-1963 and undated

9

Goleniewski affair, 1966. Clippings

10

Kamkin bookstore, 1974-1982 and undated. Catalog, clippings, invoices

11

Kommunisticheskaia partiia sovetskogo soiuza, 1969-1978. Clippings

12

Mishtowt, Illarion Vikent’evich and Irina, undated clippings

13

Museum of the Russian Imperial Navy, 1967-1979 and undated. Also known as Naval Museum, Russian Naval History Museum. Clipping, contract, correspondence, maps, notes, two prints

14

Office of Naval Research, 1958-1979. Clippings, correspondence, memos, reports

Romanov, House of

15

General, 1965 and undated

16

Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich, 1958-1962 and undated. Correspondence, notes, receipts, relating to portrait of. Includes one negative and ten prints

Russia--History

17

General, 1970-1985 and undated. Clippings

18

Lectures, undated

14.

1

Russians--Foreign countries--Germany, 1961-1963 and undated

2

Sheremet’ev, Sergei V., 1943, 1968

3

Smyrnow, Wassily, 1969-1975. Includes articles, clippings, notes, patent

4

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1973-1980. Clippings

5

Soviet science and technology, 1958-1980 and undated. Clippings, notes, and report

Soviet Union

6

Aeronautical engineering, 1979. Clipping

7

Armed forces, 1976-1981 and undated. Clippings

8

Defenses, 1977-1985. Article, clippings

9

Economic conditions, 1971-1972. Clippings

10

Foreign relations--China, 1958-1976 and undated. Clippings

11

History. General, 1947-1985 and undated. Clippings

15.

1

History--Revolution, 1917-1921. Clippings

2

Intellectual life, 1969-1984. Clippings

3

Space race--Soviet Union--History, 1959-1978 and undated

4

Spies--Soviet Union, 1971-1972 and undated. Clippings

5

Stalin, Joseph, 1973 and undated. Clippings

6

Still, Joseph W., 1957-1985 and undated. Articles, clippings, correspondence, notes

7

Submarine technology, 1980-1984 and undated. Clipping, correspondence

8

Toutorsky, Basil P., 1984 and undated. Biographical information, sheet music

9

Tower, Jeremiah, 1973-1985 and undated

16.

1

Zimmerer, Mary Jane Bell, 1953. Clipping

Photographs, 1915-1985 and undated

2

1915-1984. Photographs of family, and graduates of “Morskoe uchlishche,” fifty-seven prints, ten negatives, five photocopies

3

Association of Russian imperial naval officers in America, Inc. Biulleten’, 1977-1979. Twenty-three prints, four negatives, six photocopies

4

Chan, Wing Kon, 1941-1984. Fifteen prints

5

Family and friends, 1912-1956 and undated. Thirty-nine prints

6

Friends, 1968-1984 and undated. Nine prints

7

Kibort, Leonid, 1945-1983 and undated. Twenty prints

8

Louie, Harry, 1982. Six prints of family members, including wedding photos

9

Malta, visit to, 1985 and undated. Eighteen prints

McDonnell aircraft corporation

10

Undated. Four prints

11

Photo album, Sixty-six prints, and clippings relating to Zakhartchenko’s projects

17.

1

Morskoe uchilishche, 1915-1984 and undated. Twenty prints, three negatives

Morskoi korpus

2

282 Anniversary, 1983. Ten prints

3

1916-1961 and undated. Twelve prints, one negative

4

1916-1978 and undated. Nineteen prints, two photocopies

5

1916-1982 and undated. Sixteen prints, three photocopies

6

1917-1983 and undated. Twenty-two prints, two photocopies

7

Russkii morskoi muzei, 1968. Nine prints

8

Shimanovskii, Iurii Olegovich, undated. Ten prints

9

Staub, Nancy L.,1984 and undated. See also Correspondence/Staub, Nancy L.

10

Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich, undated. One print, taken of original oil portrait

11

Zakhartchenko, Constantine, undated. Eleven prints, including caricature

18-38.

Clippings from various émigré newspapers and some U.S. and Soviet press relating to general topics as well as aeronautics, the Imperial Russian Navy, and Russian history and culture. Not filmed. Originals retained by Holy Trinity Seminary