Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan Biography
Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (23.07 (05.08) .1905 – 9.12.1970), Soviet aircraft designer, Academician of the USSR (1968, Corresponding Member of 1953), Colonel-General engineering services, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1957). Member of the CPSU from 1925. Since 1923 worked as a turner, first at the plants in Rostov-on-Don, and later at the Moscow factory "Dinamo". After serving in the Red Army entered (in 1931) in the Air Force Engineering Academy. Zhukovsky. Upon completion of the Academy (1936) worked as a military representative at the aircraft factory, and then deputy chief of Bureau of the plant. Since 1940 the chief designer of Experimental Design Bureau of aircraft construction. In 1940, under the leadership Mikoyan (with M. Gurevich) was established MiG-1, designed for aerial combat at high altitudes. In the same 1940 plane had been modified (MiG-3), was used in the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945. Mikoyan – one of the pioneers of jet aircraft in the USSR. Created a number of supersonic jet fighters. On the jet, the E-266 Mikoyan Design established a number of world records. Mikoyan-deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3 – 8-th convocations. USSR State Prize (1941, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953). Lenin Prize (1962). He was awarded six Orders of Lenin, four other orders and medals. Leath.: Mina A., Aircraft Design Mikoyan, "Journal of Air Fleet", 1951, № 7, A. Arzoumanian, General Designer, AI Mikoyan, M., 1961.