Artem Mikoyan

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Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (also A. I. Mikoian)(1905-1970)

 

The father of the world famous Soviet ‘MIG’ series of combat aircraft, Artem Mikoyan was a Soviet aircraft designer, born 23 July 1905 in the village of Sanain, Armenian SSR; died 9 December 1970, in Moscow. He began his technical career as a lathe operator at machinery plants in Rostov-on-Don and Moscow in 1923. Then, after serving in the Soviet Army, he studied at the Zhukovskii Air Force Academy and later worked as a military representative, and then the director of design at an aircraft plant. In 1940, Mikoyan became the Deputy Director and Chief designer of the Soviet Experimental Aircraft design Bureau. While at this post, the MIG-1 high altitude fighter was developed in 1940 under his scrutinous supervision. Working with fellow designer M.I. Gurevich, the airplane was modified to the MIG-3 version later that year and was used in the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) with promising results. A pioneer of Soviet jet aviation, he developed a number of supersonic jet fighters in the 1950;s and 60’s and many performance world records were set by this planes - all of which he personally designed. Mikoyan was a deputy in the third to eighth convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR as well as a national hero. He received many State Prizes between 1941 and 1953 and the Lenin Prize in 1962. To this day, the aircraft bearing his namesake are among the premier combat jet fighters of the world.

 

 

by Matt Natusch http://hep2.physics.arizona.edu/~savin/ram...am/mikoyan.html

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Artem Mikoyan