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Ye. E. Groppius never completed pusher canard of 1923, but switched to conventional GAZ-5 (designated from Leningrad factory) biplane transport (300-hp) for pilot, mechanic and 4 passengers, completed autumn 1924.
Pyotr Dmitryevich Grushin worked at MAI under Grigorovich 1931-4, building ultralight in spare time. First original design Sh-Tandem tandem-wing 2-seat attack aircraft (5 December 1937), followed by more advanced BB-MAI…
Mikhail Ivanovich Gudkov was manager of a GAZ (state aviation factory) September 1938 when he became partner forming LaGG. When this evacuated to Gorkii October 1941 Gudkov remained in Moscow…
Yakob Modestovich Hakkel (written Gakkel in Russian), electrical engineer, built 7 progressively better biplanes between March 1910 and July 1911, Hakkel III making first prolonged all-Russian flight 24 May 1910.…
AVIATSIONNYI KOMPLEKS IMENI S.V. ILYUSHINA OAO (Aviation Complex named for S.V. Ilyushin JSC) Ilyushin OKB is named after Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin, who died 9 February 1977, aged 82. Bureau (OKB-240)…
MEZHDUNARODNYYI AVIATSIONNYI KOMPANIYA ILYUSHINA (Ilyushin International Aviation Company) Incorporating aircraft design and production companies, Ilyushin MAK formed April 2000 by government decree. Initial members are Ilyushin Aviation Complex and VASO;…
Created Moscow 1990 with support from Ministry of Aviation Industry to serve as Russian partner in international design and manufacturing partnerships. Minority partner in Phönix-Aviatekhnika. Launched aerobatic/utility/sport projects September 1992.
NAUCHNO-PROIZVODSTVENNAYA KORPORATSIYA IRKUT OAO (Irkut Scientific-Production Corporation JSC) Founded on 28 March 1932 and commissioned on 24 August 1934, as GAZ-125 (becoming GAZ-39 in 1941), Irkut has built some 6,500…
Vittorio Isacco was Italian designer who, like Bartini, emigrated to Soviet Union. Arrested 1936 and worked in a VT 'special prison', continuing work on Isacco-4, rather clumsy helicopter with 80-ft…
Junkers obtained concession from infant Soviet government, with civil war still raging 1923, to open design office and production factory in former RBVZ buildings at Fili north of Moscow. Arrangement…
Konstantin Alekseyevich Kalinin directed aircraft repair factory 1923 and set up his own KB (GROSS) 1925, producing series of high-wing monoplane transports with elliptical wing, K-1 onwards. Most successful was…
Formed in 1948 by Prof Dr Ing Nikolai Ilyich Kamov, this OKB originated in an experimental autogyro production plant operating in Moscow from 1940 to 1943. Kamov's initial brief was…
KAZANSKOYE AVIATSIONNOYE PROIZVODSTVENNOYE OBEDINENIE IMENI S.P. GORBUNOVA (Kazan Aircraft Production Association named for S.P. Gorbunov) KAPO (formerly GAZ-22) established in Moscow on 14 May 1927 and moved to Kazan in…
KUMERTSKOYE AVIATSIONNOYE PROIZVODSTVENNOYE PREDPRIYATIE (Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise) KAPP has manufactured helicopters, aeroplanes and related equipment at Kumertau since 1962. Major programmes have involved the Kamov Ka-26 and Ka-27/28/29/32 helicopter…
Brothers Evgenii Ivanovich, Ivan and Andrei Kasyanenko were students at KPI (Kiev Polytechnic Institute) who in 1910-21 designed and built 6 increasingly original aeroplanes. No. 1 was pusher biplane of…
Kazan Aviation Institute intermittently one of greatest SKBs (student construction bureaux) from 1934, supervisory designers being S.P. Gudzik and Z.I. Itskovich 1934-7 and M.P. Simonov 1956-66. Very first design, KAI-1…
KAZANSKY VERTOLETNYI ZAVOD OAO GAZ-387 founded in Leningrad in 1940 and re-established at Kazan on 15 August 1941 following evacuation. Built 11,344 Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes up to 1947, when production…
Construction Bureau 7 organized 1936 to create aerospace vehicles. Ten projects included R-05v fighter, but thinking so far ahead of practical technology caused designs to remain on paper.
Vissarion Savelyevich Keburiya built glider 1909, later bought Blériot which he repeatedly rebuilt (with changes) after crashes. Built second monoplane 1912, and No. 3 in 1913 similar to Morane but…
Scotsman J.S. Mackenzie Kennedy built several primitive biplanes in St Petersburg 1909-14, using features of Wrights and Voisins. Returned to UK 1914 and with Hamilton Edwards formed Kennedy Aeroplanes Co.…
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