Design Office Prefixes
- An (Ан): Antonov
- Ar (Ар): Archangelskii
- BI (БИ): Berezniak-Isaev
- BICh (БИЧ): Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky
- Be (Бе): Beriev
- Che (Че): Chetverikov
- Gu (Гу): Gudkov
- Il (Ил): Ilyushin
- Ka (Ка): Kamov
- La (Ла): Lavochkin
- LaG (ЛаГ): Lavochkin-Gorbunov
- LaGG (ЛаГГ): Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov
- Li (Ли): Lisunov
- M (М): Myasishchev
- Mi (Ми): Mil
- MiG (МиГ): Mikoyan-Gurevich, until the death of Artem Mikoyan in 1970, then just Mikoyan
- Pe (Пе): Petlyakov
- Po (По): Polikarpov
- Su (Су): Sukhoi
- Shche (Ще): Shcherbakov
- Ta (Та): Tairov
- Tu (Ту): Tupolev (earlier: ANT (for A.N.Tupolev, the number sequence is still in use))
- Yak (Як): Yakovlev (earlier: AIR (for A.I.Rykov, one of communist leaders))
- Yer (Ер): Yermolayev
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