Feinberg was born on 24 December 1910, in Baku and attended the
Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute. He is a cousin of
Evgenii Feinberg. In 1932 he graduated specializing in engineer-architect. He obtained his master's degree in 1934. Between the period from 1934 to 1942, he worked at the Azneftproekt Institute. In 1942, he worked on the construction of an aircraft factory in Baku. In 1942-1943 he taught at the Higher Naval School (Baku). In 1944, he was seriously injured during the bombing in the
Great Patriotic War. In 1944-1945 he worked as a structural engineer – the head of the strength group at the
Gromov Flight Research Institute. Since 1945, he worked at the
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics. From 1946 until his death he worked in Laboratory No. 2 of the USSR Academy of Science(now
Kurchatov Institute) as senior research fellow, head of the theoretical sector, deputy head of department of the institute. From 1947, he taught as a professor at the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of Nuclear Reactors of
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He died in 1973 and was buried in the Necropolis of
Novodevichy Convent. == Contributions ==