Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev
Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Мясищев ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Michajlovič Mjasiščev ; born September 15 . Jul / 28. September 1902 greg. In Efremov , † 14. October 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet aircraft designer .
Life
In 1918 he graduated from secondary school and studied from 1920 at the Technical University (then MWTU / MHTS) in Moscow, which he graduated as an engineer in 1926. In the meantime, he worked with Vladimir Klimov at the Zhukovsky Academy on the development of aircraft engines .
From 1936 he worked at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (ZAGI) in the AGOS department of Tupolev under the direction of Petlyakov on the development of wings for the large aircraft TB-1 , TB-3 , ANT-16 / TB-4 and ANT-20 . Since the 1930s, he designed the ANT-41 torpedo aircraft and the M-2 / DWB-102 bomber as chief designer . He was also involved in the preparations for the production of the Lissunow Li-2 by Boris Lissunow .
Myasishchev fell victim to the wave of purges in the Soviet Union , was arrested on January 4, 1938, sentenced to ten years in a labor camp on May 28 for alleged sabotage and assigned to the KB-29 special design office, where he and other designers had to design aircraft under prison conditions. Two years later, on July 25, 1940, he and Vladimir Petlyakov were released early to organize the serial production of the Pe-2 at Plant No. 22 in Moscow . The plant was evacuated to Kazan in October 1941 when the German troops and its workforce were approaching . After Petlyakov's accidental death in January 1942, Myasishchev was appointed his successor and chief designer of the Pe-2 manufacturing company and created improved versions of this type. In 1944 he was promoted to major general. In 1945 the four-engined bomber RB-17 followed.
On March 24, 1951 he was appointed head of the experimental design office WM Myasishchev , or OKB-23 for short . His best-known aircraft is likely to be the M-4 long-range bomber developed there and built from 1951 . Finally, in 1961, the M-50 supersonic bomber was presented. Since this and other follow-up projects were unsuccessful, the OKB was closed in the autumn of 1966 and converted into the experimental machine works W. M. Mjassishchew ( Russian: Экспериментальный машиностроительныя завод им. В. Мим . The M-17 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was built there as his last aircraft construction , but Myasishchev did not live to see its completion.
Myasishchev was also a professor of aircraft construction at the Moscow Aviation Institute . In 1957, he received the Lenin Prize for developing the M-4 . From 1960 to 1967 he headed the ZAGI.
Myasishchev was a bearer of the Order of the October Revolution and three times bearer of the Order of Lenin .
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
Web links
- Article Vladimir Mikhailovich Mjasishchev in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- The wings of dreams by WA Chekmarev, April 27, 2010
- Biography , Geroi strany
- Biography , State Cosmonaut Research and Production Center , September 27, 2010
- Biography , website of the city of Yefremov
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Materna: From balloon hunter to research aircraft: Mjassischtschew M-17 . In: FLiEGERREVUE X . No. 67 . PPV Medien, 2017, ISSN 2195-1233 , p. 97 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Myasishchev, Vladimir Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мясищев, Владимир Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet aircraft designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yefremov |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1978 |
| Place of death | Moscow |