Designation of all early designs by A.N. Tupolev, last being ANT-69 (Tu-8) of 1946.
A.A. Arkhangyelski led design of many early ANT (Tupolev) aircraft. When his chief was arrested he became de facto head of Tupolev OKB, and 1937-42 managed several major programmes, one…
ARSENYEVSKOYE AVIATSIONNOYE PROIZVODSTVENNOYE PREDPRIYATIE IMENI N.I.SAZYKINA (Arsenyev Aviation Production Enterprise 'Progress' named for N.I.Sazykin) Arsenyev plant previously built the Mil Mi-24/25/35 series of combat helicopters, in parallel with Rostvertol, and…
Mikhail Artyumov, usually partnered by Viktor Timofeyev, produced series of ultralights 1971-82.
AVGUR VOZDUKHOPLAVATELNYI TSENTR (Augur Aeronautical Centre) Formed 29 October 1991 by the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) and a group of private shareholders, this company is successor to AIG Kovanko, established…
NAUCHNO-PROIZVODSTVENNOYE OBEDINENIE AVIA LTD (Avia Scientific-Production Association JSC) The Avia company was established on 20 February 1995 to design, manufacture and support light aircraft. Its associated design bureau (itself part…
AVIAKOR AVIATSIONNOYE ZAVOD OAO (Aviacor Aviation Depot JSC) Founded in Voronezh during the 1930s and evacuated to Kuybishev (Samara) during Second World War, Aviacor (formerly GAZ-18; KuAPA) previously built the…
This consortium was formed 1989 by Myasishchyev OKB and six other organizations to promote local air transport in Arctic and far east regions. First aircraft project (among other activities) is…
AVIASTAR, ULYANOVSKY AVIATSIONNYI PROMYSHLENNNYI KOMPLEKS OAO (Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex "Aviastar" JSC) Founded in 1976, this 1.5 million m² (16.5 million sq ft) production facility, known Plant 25 (later UAIK…
Joint-stock company created to manage production and marketing of light aircraft designed by MAI, notably MAI-89 light biplane (35 delivered 1992) and MAI-90 competition aerobatic aircraft. See also OSKBES MAI.
AVIATON NAUCHNO-PROIZVODSTVENNAYA AVIATSIONNAYA FIRMA (Aviaton Aviation Scientific-Production Firm) Aviaton displayed its first product, the Merkury light twin, at the 1997 Moscow Air Show. On 27 March 1998, it purchased a…
Name of design brigade at Kharkov Aviation Institute 1930-37.
GOSUDARSTVENNOYE UNITARNOYE PREDPRIYATIE AVIATSIONNYI VOENNO-PROMYSHLENNYI KOMPLEKS SUKHOI (State Unitary Enterprise, Aviation Military-Industrial Complex Sukhoi) AVPK Sukhoi was created, under presidential decree, in August 1996, to bring together the Sukhoi and…
Grigorii Ivanovich Bakshayev spent most of his career at NIAI, where particular forte 1930-36 was aircraft with telescopic extending wings (e.g. LIG-7/LK and RK-1).
Italian Roberto Bartini, Communist, emigrated to Soviet Union 1923 and devoted life to designing Soviet aircraft. Served Red Army to 1928; then joined OSS 'Stal', headed his own brigade; arrested…
Engineer-colonel Anatoli Georgievich Bedunkovich worked at NIAI Leningrad. Best-known designs LK-4 (NIAI-4) light biplane, P-3 (LIG-5) advanced trainer and SKh-1 (LIG-10) multirole transport and ag-aircraft, all 1934-9.
Viktor Nikolayevich Belyaev (or Belyayev) worked with many design brigades before designing twin-boom passenger transport 1934, developed into remarkable DB-LK bomber. EI pusher fighter destroyed 1941.
A.Y. Bereznyak and A.M. Isayev developed BI-1 rocket interceptor (15 May 1942).
BERIEVA AVIATSIONNYI KOMPANIYA (Beriev Aviation Company) Original Beriev design bureau (OKB) founded in October 1934 by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev (1903-79); except during of the Second World War, 1942-45, it has…
A.A. Besobrasov, F.E. Moska and V.A. Ponikovin built wierd triplane 1913.
Bureau Osobikh Konstruktsii, bureau of special designers, set up October 1930 on initiative of P.I. Baranov as part of CAHI. BOK-1 pressure-cabin high-altitude (1936), BOK-2 high-lift 2-part wing (1935), BOK-5…
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