Igor Vyacheslavovich Cheetwerikov

Igor Vyacheslavovich Tschetwerikow ( Russian Игорь Вячеславович Четвериков ., Scientific transliteration Igor Vjačeslavovič Četverikov * 25. January 1904 in Kuznetsk , † 1987 ) was a Soviet aircraft design engineer .

Life

Tschetwerikow worked since 1928 in the OMOS group of the ZKB ( Central Design Office ) as successor to Dmitri Grigorowitsch on flying boat projects, from spring 1929 under Paul Richard on the torpedo aircraft project TOM-1. In 1931 he went to the Central Development Office for Seaplanes. In 1933 he moved to the OSGA department, which designed seaplanes and gliding boats for the Institute for Civil Aviation (NII GWF). In the spring of 1934 he went to Sevastopol and worked intensively on the development of flying boats. There the prototype of a collapsible small flying boat under the designation SPL (Samoljot dlja Podwodnoi Lodki, airplane for submarines) was tested. It should be carried by submarines and used for reconnaissance flights if necessary. However, the program has stopped. At the same time, the flying boat ARK-3 was built for GLAWSEW MORPUT ( Headquarters Nördlicher Seeweg ) , but it was also rejected.

In 1940 he took over the OKB z-da 30 from Wassili Nikitin , which, however, soon had to be evacuated due to the war .

After the Second World War, the development of civilian flying boats with the TA-1 continued for some time. In January 1946 the development office OKB-31 na z-de 18 was dissolved by Alexander Moskalew and added to OKB z-da 458 near today's Dubna by Tschetwerikow. But when the end of the flying boat era was on the horizon, the development office was closed at the end of 1948, after they had finally dealt with the construction of catapult-capable on-board aircraft and the associated launch devices . Tschetwerikow went to Leningrad to the Engineering Academy of the Air Force and received his doctorate there in 1951.

The best-known types were the Tschetwerikow MDR-3 from 1931, which was further developed by Tupolev to the ANT-27 , and the Tschetwerikow MDR-6 developed in 1940 , which was able to hold its own against the Beriev MDR-5 .

literature

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