Alexei Yakovlevich Shcherbakov

Alexei Jakowlewitsch Schcherbakov ( Russian Алексей Яковлевич Щербаков , scientific transliteration Alexej Jakovlevič Ščerbakov ; * 1901 ; † 1978 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer.

Life

Shcherbakov ended the Technological Institute in Kharkov in 1929. He worked from 1926 to 1935 in OKB of Konstantin Kalinin . After Kalinin's arrest in April 1935, he took over the design office (OKB z-da 18) and headed it until August 1935. He then went to Moscow to the Institute of the Soviet Air Fleet and was in the department for special designs (OSK, Otdel Spez Konstruktzi) active.

He developed pressurized cabins there , which were tested in the Polikarpow I-15bis , Polikarpow I-16 and Polikarpow I-153 fighters . He was also involved in the design of the RP-318-I rocket glider and the PRWD ramjet, which was tested as an auxiliary drive . As early as 1939 he was working in the KB-5 on the special high-altitude fighter IWS, which was further developed and partially tested after the war to become the high-flyer WSI with swiveling jet turbines on the wing tips. With the beginning of the war he was employed in the OKB z-da 482 and participated together with Vladimir Myasishchev in the development of the high-altitude bomb plane DWB-102 .

In 1942 he began developing the Shche-2 transport aircraft . The OKB z-da 47 was created, which existed from 1943 to 1946 and accompanied the production of the aircraft.

After the Second World War he worked in the OKB Korolev for space travel and then at Lavochkin , where he also realized the WSI project.

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation. Elbe – Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .