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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…
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…
Viktor Federovich Bolkhovitinov was mercurial professor at VVA (Zhukovskii air force academy) 1932. Following year became head of group, in effect an OKB, with first task to design replacement for…
Aleksei A. Borovkov and Ilya F. Florov set up OKB-7 early 1936, producing series of excellent small biplane fighters 7211, I-207 and I-207M. Fighter D, piston/ramjet, abandoned 1941.
Ivan Pavlovich Bratukhin ran OKB-3 at MAI 1940-51. Concentrated on helicopters with aeroplane tail and left/right girders or wings carrying an engine/rotor group. Omega, or 2MG, delayed by German invasion…
Having given up helicopters, Igor Sikorsky collaborated with 2 other students at Kiev Polytechnic Institute and built BJS.1 (or BIS, from Iordan) pusher biplane May 1910, and more successful BJS.2…
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also written TsAGI), Moscow, founded December 1918 by N.Ye. Zhukovsky. Provided aerodynamic basis of knowledge for all significant Soviet aircraft, and managed early rotary-wing programmes: 1-EA by…
Boris Ivanovich Cheranovskii pioneered tailless monoplanes, especially of 'parabola' form with curved leading edge. BICh-1 glider 1923, first powered aircraft -3 of 1926, successful. BICh-7 1929 unstable, rebuilt as -7A.…
OPYTNYI KONSTRUKTORSKOYE BYURO CHERNOV B & M OOO (B & M Chernov Experimental Design Bureau JSC) The designs of Boris V Chernov have previously been associated with the No.1 Students'…
Igor Vyacheslavovich Chetverikov joined Central Construction Bureau 1931 and soon appointed head of marine brigade at old Menzhinskii factory. Major task new long-range flying-boat for Morskaya Aviatsya. This flew as…
Chkalov aeronautical college, Voronezh (named for famed pilot V.P. Chkalov), built C-12 tandem-wing ultralight 1968.
ChUR No. 1 got its designation from G.G. Chechet, M.K. Ushkov and N.V. Rebikov. Basically good-looking tractor monoplane, but with variable-incidence short upper wing, with ailerons, and strange main wingtips…
Private OKB formed Moscow 1991 to develop T-101 Gratch STOL turboprop, T-401 Sokol light transport, T-501 turboprop trainer and T-602 Orel light twin. Became Rosk.
Experimental reconnaissance biplane of 1917, wing incidence controllable from cockpit.
Moscow flight instructor Aleksandr Yakovlevich Dokuchayev built 6 aeroplanes. First, completed 1910, was biplane with pusher 50-hp Anzani, tested but possibly on ground only. No. 2 built 1912, sesquiplane version…
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