List of Russian Scientists - Aerospace Engineers

Aerospace Engineers

  • Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed Raketa hydrofoils and ekranoplans, including the Caspian Sea Monster
  • Oleg Antonov, designer of the An-series aircraft, including A-40 winged tank and An-124 (the largest serial cargo aircraft, later modified to world's largest fixed-wing aircraft An-225)
  • Georgy Babakin, designed the first soft lander spacecraft Luna 9
  • Vladimir Barmin, designer of the first rocket launch complex (Baikonur Cosmodrome)
  • Robert Bartini, developer of ekranoplans and VTOL amphibious aircrafts, physicist, tutor to many other aerospace designers
  • Alexander Bereznyak, designer of the first fighter rocket-powered aircraft, BI-1
  • Georgy Beriev, designer of the Be-series amphibious aircraft
  • Georgy Bothezat, inventor of quadrotor helicopter (The Flying Octopus)
  • Vladimir Chelomey, designer of the first space station Salyut 1, creator of Proton rocket (the most used heavy lift launch system)
  • Evgeniy Chertovsky, inventor of pressure suit
  • Nicolas Florine, builder of the first successful tandem rotor helicopter
  • Valentyn Glushko, inventor of hypergolic propellant and electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, designer of the world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170
  • Pyotr Grushin, inventor of anti-ballistic missile
  • Mikhail Gurevich, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21
  • Sergey Ilyushin, designed the Il-series fighter aircraft, including Il-2 bomber (the most produced military aircraft in history)
  • Aleksei Isaev, designer of the first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1
  • Mstislav Keldysh, co-developer of the first satellite (Sputnik) and Keldysh bomber
  • Kerim Kerimov, the secret figure behind the Soviet space program
  • Nikolay Kamov, designed the Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters
  • Alexander Kemurdzhian, inventor of space rover (Lunokhod)
  • Sergei Korolyov, the Farther of the Soviet space program, inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the first human spaceflight
  • Gleb Kotelnikov, inventor of knapsack parachute and drogue parachute
  • Semyon Lavochkin, designer of the La-series aircraft and the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
  • Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, inventor of coaxial rotor and the first helicopter
  • Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, designer of the Buran space shuttle and Spiral project
  • Arkhip Lyulka, designer of the Lyulka-series aircraft engines, including the first double jet turbofan
  • Victor Makeev, developer of the first intercontinental SLBM
  • Artem Mikoyan, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21
  • Mikhail Mil, designer of the Mi-series helicopters, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
  • Alexander Mozhaysky, author of the first attempt to create heavier-than-air craft in Russia, designed the largest of 19th century airplanes
  • Alexander Nadiradze, designer of the first mobile ICBM RT-21 Temp 2S and the first reliable mobile ICBM RT-2PM Topol
  • Nikolai Polikarpov, designer of the Po-series aircraft, including Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
  • Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, inventor of ionocraft and gyroscopically stabilized bombsight
  • Guy Severin, designed the first spacewalk supporting system
  • Igor Sikorsky, inventor of airliner and strategic bomber (Sikorsky Ilya Muromets), father of modern helicopter, founder of the Sikorsky Aircraft
  • Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket
  • Pavel Sukhoi, designer of the Su-series fighter aircraft
  • Vladimir Syromyatnikov, designer of the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System
  • Mikhail Tikhonravov, designer of Sputniks, including the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, principal pioneer of astronautics
  • Alexei Tupolev, designer of the Tu-series aircraft, including the first supersonic transport Tu-144
  • Andrey Tupolev, designer of the Tu-series aircraft, including the turboprop long-range airliner Tu-114 and turboprop strategic bomber Tu-95
  • Vladimir Vakhmistrov, supervisor of Zveno project (the first bomber with parasite aircrafts)
  • Alexander Yakovlev, designer of the Yak-series aircraft, including the first regional jet Yak-40
  • Friedrich Zander, designed the first liquid-fuel rocket in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, pioneer of astronautics
  • Nikolai Zhukovsky, founder of modern aero- and hydrodynamics, pioneer of aviation

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