the crater Zhukovskiy on the Moon are both named in his honor. The State Zhukovsky Prize was established in 1920 'for the best works in mathematics'. The Russian Air Force's engineering academy was named for him, later reorganized into the Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy. In May 2016, Moscow's fourth largest airport was named in his honor. Mosfilm produced a 1950 eponymous biopic directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin with music by Vissarion Shebalin, which earned Pudovkin and Shebalin the USSR State Prize in 1951. The Russian Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute and the Ukrainian National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute are named after him. The Zhukovsky House is a museum dedicated to his memory See also Joukowsky equation Joukowsky transform Kutta–Joukowski theorem References External links 1847 births 1921 deaths Aerodynamicists Aviation pioneers Fluid dynamicists Physicists from the Russian Empire Moscow State University alumni People from Sobinsky District Russian inventors Russian mathematicians 19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian mathematicians Professorships at the Imperial Moscow University Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute employees