# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/refat-appazov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:53:30.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/refat-appazov"
name: "Refat Appazov"
slug: "refat-appazov"
description: "Refat Fazylovich Appazov was a Soviet-Crimean Tatar rocket scientist and colleague of Sergei Korolev who served as head of the ballistics department of Energia from 1961 to 1988. Unlike most Crimean Tatars, he was spared special settler status and exile to Central Asia since the authorities forgot to include him in the deportation due to being in Izhevsk at the time. As a result, he was left cut off from the rest of Crimean Tatar society in the Soviet Union for much of his life. Nevertheless, he managed to become an engineer in OKB-1 and later a teacher at the prestigious Moscow Aviation Institute despite repeatedly facing discrimination. After keeping quiet about his Crimean Tatar identity for most of his life, he became heavily involved in the right of return movement after seeing the 1987 announcement about the conclusion by the Gromyko commission downplaying the entire issue and rejecting full right of return to Crimea. He went on to be a member of the second committee dedicated to considering the issue of Crimean Tatar return, which overturned the conclusions of the Gromyko commission, and in 1991 he was elected as a delegate of the Crimean Tatar Qurultay."
tagline: "Soviet Scientist"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1920-09-08"
deathDate: "2008-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Refat Appazov"
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    title: "Аппазов, Рефат Фазылович"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump