​Viktor Konstantinovich TCHETCHET, born in 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire and died in 1974 in New York, USA, was an Ukrainian military pilot, designer-shipbuilder, artist, pioneer of modern multihull sailing ships. The author of the term trimaran. He participanted in the First World War. Even before the start of the war, he built the first amateur sailing catamaran. In 1923 he emigrated to the USA and further experimented with catamarans and trimarans. Resided at Great Neck in New York, Long Island since 1940. In 1946 he founded the International Association of Multihull Ships. In addition to designing boats, he earned for his life by painting landscapes and portraits. He worked with Hollywood stars. Designed the covers of Picture Play, The American Weekly, Physical Culture Magazine, Liberty, Photoplay and many others. He also worked in the pin-up style.