Biography
Petr (Ukrainian - Petro) Balabuyev was born on May 23, 1931, on Valuysk farm, Luhansk region. He graduated from the Kharkov Aviation Institute (1954), with qualification of an aircraft mechanical engineer. In April 1954, after graduating from Kharkiv aviation institute started working at Kharkov aircraft company:
- at first as a structural engineer
- since 1956 - Head of the workshop
- since 1959 - Head of the assembly line
- since 1960 - leading designer, acting head of production dept.
- since 1961 - deputy chief engineer, main representative of Antonov Design Bureau at Tashkent Aviation Production Association
- since 1965 - Head of the Research Bureau of Antonov Bureau
- since 1968 - deputy chief designer
- since 1971 - chief designer, First Deputy General Designer
- since 1984 - Chief Designer of Antonov Bureau
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