Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov
Wladimir Michailowitsch Petljakov ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Петляков , scientific transliteration Vladimir Michajlovič Petljakov ; * June 15 jul. / June 27, 1891 greg. In Sambek near Rostov-on-Don ; † January 12, 1942 , a Soviet aircraft near Kazan )
Life
Petlyakov was the son of a salesman. From 1902 to 1910 he attended the Taganrog Technical School and then moved to the Moscow Technical University, but had to interrupt his studies due to lack of money. In the meantime he worked as a laboratory technician, stoker, lathe operator and locomotive depot manager. In 1919 Petlyakov resumed his studies and graduated in 1922. He had already started working at ZAGI in 1921 . When Andrei Tupolev's design office was founded in 1922 , he was one of the first employees. Mainly he was responsible for the development of all types of Tupolev's wings from the ANT-1 to the ANT-20 . He also took part in the creation of the TB-1 , TB-3 and ANT-42 bombers , the later Pe-8.
In 1936 he was appointed deputy chief designer of the ZAGI and took over the management of Brigade 1 of OKB Tupolev, which specialized in the construction of large machines. On October 21, 1937 Tupolev was arrested in the wake of the onset of the Stalinist Great Terror , and Petlyakov a few days later on October 29. On May 28, 1940, he was sentenced to ten years in prison and denied civil rights for five years. Two days later, he was taken to the Butyrka Detention Center . It was suggested to the imprisoned designers, among them Vladimir Myasishchev and Dmitri Tomashevich , that they "earn" their freedom by designing powerful aircraft.
As a result, Petlyakov's special design office "KB-100" created perhaps the most important front bomber of the Soviet Union in World War II , the Pe-2 , which was built in over 11,000 units . Therefore, on July 25, 1940, the Supreme Soviet passed a resolution to release him early, which happened two days later. However, his rehabilitation took place only two years after Stalin's death on April 9, 1955 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Petlyakov then took over the organization of the Pe-2 series production in Plant 22, first in Moscow and, after its relocation in November 1941, in Kazan. Vladimir Petlyakov was killed on January 12, 1942 when a Pe-2 crashed on the flight from Kazan to Moscow. The brand-new aircraft was to be transferred to Borowitschi , along with another one of the 1st Squadron of the 2nd Long- Distance Reconnaissance Regiment, and was flown by Captain Ovechkin. About 35 to 40 minutes after the start, it caught fire and crashed with snowfall near poor visibility and low cloud ceiling Arsamas from. Petlyakov was buried in the Kazan cemetery on January 25th.
His work was honored with the award of the State Prize , the Order of the Red Star and two orders of Lenin .
Known planes
Honors
- the Aviation Academy Taganrog ( Russian Таганрогский авиационный колледж имени В. М. Петлякова ) was named after Petlyakov
- he is the namesake for the Petlyakov Nunatak in the Antarctic
Web links
- Article Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Unger: Pe-8. The Soviet long-range bomber. Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89488-048-1 , p. 230
- ↑ Sergei Pasynitsch, Sergei Zwetkow, Stefan Büttner, Jörg Mückler: Long-range reconnaissance aircraft with a red star - the chronicle of the 47th Air Regiment in Flieger Revue Extra No. 30, Möller, Berlin, 2010, ISSN 0941-889X , p. 60
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petlyakov, Vladimir Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Петляков, Владимир Михайлович (Russian); Petljakov, Vladimir Michajlovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet aircraft designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sambek , Rostov-on-Don district |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1942 |
| Place of death | near Kazan |