[Rare] 1935 "Rockets, Their Construction and Application", a book by V. Glushko and G. Langemak / Г. Лангемак, В. Глушко. "Ракеты. Их устройство и применение".

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"Rockets, Their Construction and Application", a book by V. Glushko and G. Langemak
From the destroyed stock. It is considered rare, since the edition of 700 copies was destroyed after the arrest and execution of G. Langemak as "enemy of the people" in 1938. Probably not more than 15 copies remain.
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V. P. Glushko and G. Langemak, “Rockets, Their Construction and Application”
1935, Moscow-Leningrad
700 copies, standard format, 120 pages
Condition: Refurbished copy. Decommissioned library copy. The bottom sheet of the cover and the spine are lost, restored with paper. The top sheet of the cover is washed out, has losses, restored with paper, there are stains on it. The top cover sheet is slightly folded. Pocket marks on the inside of the top title page. The block is slightly cut. The edges of some pages have been restored. Library stamps and ciphers on the title page, 17th and 119th pages. Stains on title page. Pages are soiled.

= Georgy Erikhovich Langemak (Russian: Георгий Эрихович Лангемак) (June 26 (N.S. July 8), 1898–January 11, 1938) was a Soviet rocket designer of German/Swiss background.
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Georgy_Langemak
ru.wikipedia. org/wiki/Лангемак,_Георгий_Эрихович
www.it1me. com/learn?s=Georgy_Langemak
Beginning in 1928, he worked at the Soviet Gas Dynamics Laboratory along with several other notable Soviet rocket scientists, and they developed rocket projectiles that used smokeless powder. This group was later merged with another rocketry organization to become the Jet Propulsion Research Institute (RNII). Langemak became the deputy director of the RNII. In 1936 this group completed the technical specifications for a rocket-glider.
By 1937, during the Great Purge, he was fired and arrested by the Soviet government, along with the RNII director Ivan Kleymenov and the engine designer Valentin Glushko, on trumped up charges. Both Langemak and Kleimenov were tortured, sentenced to die in a mock trial, then executed.
He is chiefly remembered for being the co-designer and directing the development of the unguided rockets which were to be used with such success in the Katyusha rocket launchers of World War II. The crater Langemak on the Moon is named in his honor.
= Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Глушко́, Valentin Petrovich Glushko; born 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989), was a Soviet engineer, and the principal Soviet designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race.
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Valentin_Glushko
= From the book “Unknown Langemak. Designer of "Katyusha"
[Author is A. Glushko, son of academician V. P. Glushko]:
“…of the total edition of 700 copies not much more than 10 remain till now…”
Source: arsenal-info. ru/b/book/586901728/39