Georgi Mikhailovich Beriev

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Georgi Mikhailovich Beriev (actually Beriaschwili / Бериашвили ) ( Russian Георгий Михайлович Бериев , scientific transliteration. Georgy Michajlovič Beriev ; Georgian : გიორგი მხეილის ძე ბერიაშვილი, Giorgi Mikheilis Dze Beriashvili ; born January 31 . Jul / 13. February  1903 . Greg in Tbilisi ; † July 12, 1979 in Moscow ) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Georgian descent. He was mainly known for his amphibious planes.

biography

Not much is known about the early years of Georgi Michailowitsch Beriev , who was actually called Beriashvili due to his Georgian origins . After graduating from the Tbilisi Railway School in 1923, Beriev went to the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (today: St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University ). There he studied at the Faculty of Shipbuilding in the Aircraft Department .

He left the institute in 1930 as an engineer . At first he worked as a design assistant in a development office with the French inventor Paul Aimé Richard , until he left the country after his last time in the Soviet Union in 1928–1930 before he became deputy chief designer of the central design office "WR Menschinski" at the end of 1930 . Here he developed the Beriev MBR-2 flying boat .

From October 1934 to 1968 he headed the Central Development Office for Naval Aircraft in Taganrog , later the Experimental Design Office (OKB), which has had his name since December 1989 . Under his leadership a number of extremely successful aircraft designs were created there, some of which were even unique.

Beriev received the Soviet State Prize in 1947 for the development of the Beriev Be-6 and in 1968 for the development of the Beriev Be-12 (in 1947 he received it under the name of the " Stalin Prize "). He was also awarded the Order of Lenin twice.

After retiring from working life as an aircraft designer, he spent the evening of his life studying science in Moscow, where he died in 1979 at the age of 76.

Known planes

Here is a list of the aircraft designed and built under the direction of Georgi Michailowitsch Beriijew:

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SURNAME Beriev, Georgi Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beriev, Georgij Michajlovič (scientific transliteration); Бериев, Георгий Михайлович (Russian); ბერიევი, გიორგი (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1979
Place of death Moscow , Soviet Union