in Trenton, New Jersey on December 22, 1973. The Larissa Stroukoff Memorial Trophy, awarded by the Soaring Society of America for the highest speed recorded on a closed course in a glider during the U.S. National Open Class Soaring Championships, was designed by Stroukoff. References Notes Bibliography External links Comments by Michael Stroukoff Jr on the C-123 and Kaiser Engineers from Kyiv Russian military personnel of World War I White Russian emigrants to the United States American aerospace engineers Russian aerospace engineers 20th-century American architects American people of Russian descent 20th-century American businesspeople Aviation inventors 1883 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian people American inventors 20th-century Ukrainian engineers