Boris Pavlovich Lisunov

Boris Pawlowitsch Lissunow ( Russian Борис Павлович Лисунов , scientific transliteration Boris Pavlovič Lisunov ; * 1898 , † 1946 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer. In almost all other sources the last name Lisunow is written.

Lissunow's outstanding work is the conversion of the Douglas DC-3 into the license model PS-84, which was called Lissunow Li-2 from 1942 , and the subsequent support of series production. In preparation for this, he traveled to the Douglas works in Santa Monica / California in 1936 and stayed there for over a year to study the production processes there.

The main work was the drawing from imperial to metric dimensions. He did this together with Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev , who, however, was a victim of the wave of purges in the USSR from 1938 to 1940 and was imprisoned.

literature

• MM Koslow et al .; Velikaya Otetschestvennaya woina 1941-1945: enziklopedija . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1985, pp. 410-411 (Russian)