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Kuibyshyev aviation production association, linked with ANTK Tupolev, formed 1991, no longer builds Tu-95 or Tu-154, but took over work from KhGAPP. See also Aviacor.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kudashyev, Kiev professor, flew at Nice with M.N. Yefimov February 1910, thereafter building 4 aeroplanes. Kudashyev 1 was at first glance like Voisin, but 35-hp Anzani drove tractor…
Two distinct groups have built light aircraft. KuAI (aviation institute; now SGAU) built VIGR-1 helicopter with tip pulsejets 1965, Sverchok (cricket) 30-hp autogyro 1971 and both Strekoza (dragonfly) and Szmiel…
At MAKS '03, Moscow, August 2003, this firm showed mockups of an agricultural sprayer and the Chirok light flying-boat. The latter, previously credited to the Pegas design bureau at Zhukovsky's…
M.A. Kupfer built helicopter/autogyro trainer towed off ground with rotor spun by tethered cable 1953.
Gun designer L.B. Kurchyevskii was authorized 1935 to form group to build fighters to use large recoilless cannon. IL designed by Lavochkin and S.N. Lyushin but never completed. BICh-17 by…
André Laville emigrated from France 1928 to work in Soviet Union, starting with Richard in OPO-4 where he drew fighter similar to Nieuport-Delage on which he had previously worked. Formed…
Syemyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin worked in numerous brigades and groups, making detailed study of delta plastic-impregnated birch laminates. Convinced such material of great strategic importance, in releasing aluminium, obtained permission to…
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lebedev (commonly shortened to Lebed’) was pioneer pilot, setting up aircraft factory at St Petersburg 1912. During war opened additional factories at Taganrog and Penze. In 1912-17 produced…
Name of light aircraft produced at Leningrad (St Petersburg) 1962 by Sekinin, Tatsiturnov and Kostin.
Brigade leader at NIAI, responsible for LK-1, also designated NIAI-1 (May 1933), 20 built.
Boris Pavlovich Lisunov masterminded Douglas licence for DC-3 and conversion into PS-84, later called Li-2 in recognition of his considerable redesign.
The Lukhovitsy Machine-Building Plant (LMZ) was major manufacturer in MiG-29 programme. In the early 1990s, the plant has started development of SL-90, Il-103, I-1L light aircraft and serial production of…
Nikolai Rodionovich Lobanov was one of several students at Moscow Technical School who built early aircraft. Basically Farman type, but different undercarriage, control column pivoted down from upper wing and…
M.V. Lomonosov produced first documented evidence of powered aerodyne 1 July 1754 with Russian Academy of Science report of spring-driven model helicopter.
Neat monoplane, reminiscent of Blériot, built at Aeronautical Society of Moscow by Russian pilots M.G. Lerkhe and G.V. Yankovski and Italian pilot-designer F.E. Mosca. Flew spring 1912 with 50-hp Gnome,…
Moscow Aviation Institute was large and produced many graduates, taught by 13 of most famous Soviet designers, but produced paper designs rather than aircraft until baby delta MAI-62 (1962) and…
Ivan Makhonine, Russian emigre living in Paris, was pioneer of aeroplanes with variable wing area. His method was variable span, telescopic sections driven pneumatically. MAK-10 (480-hp, 11 August 1931) became…
Moscow Aircraft Production Organization established 1991 by GAZ-155 (Mikoyan OKB) and 6 factories in greater Moscow area formerly involved in production of MiG-29 in order to act as single client…
Dmitri Sergeyevich Maximov (literally Maksimov) worked with aerodynamicist I.I. Drakin on SPS-89, fast passenger aircraft, at Gorkii (GAZ-89) 1937-9. Then GAZ-89 transferred to Yermolayev, and SPS-89 dropped 1940.
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