Nikolai Polikarpov

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
Николай Николаевич Поликарпов
Aeronautical engineering
Employer(s)Polikarpov Design Bureau
Significant designPo-2, I-15, I-16

Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (

aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (Russian: ишак, lit. 'donkey' phonetically close to its Russian: И-16 or Russian: И-шестнадцать, romanized: I-shestnadtsat', lit.
 'I-sixteen' designation) "Little Donkey" fighter.

Biography

Polikarpov was born in the village of Georgievskoye near

Imperial Russian Air Force
.

Soviet career

Polikarpov stayed in Russia after the

U-2 utility biplane (1927–1928), I-3 fighter (1928), R-5 reconnaissance bomber (1928). Notably, the U-2, Russian nickname Kukuruznik, loosely translated: crop-duster, (post 1944 designation Po-2),[1] remained in mainstream production until 1952 and over 30,000 examples were produced.[2]

In 1928, under provisions of the

forced labor.[4] Polikarpov and the others were moved to Central Design Bureau 39 (TsKB-39) to complete the I-5 project.[5] After a successful demonstration of the new design, the sentence was changed to a conditional one, and in July 1931 he was granted amnesty together with a group of other convicts. It was not until de-Stalinization
in 1956 that the criminal charges were officially dropped posthumously.

After the release he initially worked with

MiG bureau. Nine years after his death, in 1953, his plant was given over to the Sukhoi
bureau.

Polikarpov was subsequently appointed professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1943. He died on 30 July 1944[6] from stomach cancer. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Polikarpov was a recipient of numerous awards, including the

Hero of Socialist Labor (1940). Polikarpov Peak in the Pamir Mountains
was named after him.

See also

References

  1. ^ Авиация и космонавтика (in Russian). Воениздать. 1973.
  2. ^ Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1981. p. 83.
  3. ISBN 9780275951139
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  4. ISBN 9780760346495
    .
  5. ISBN 9780674826557
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  6. ^ Associated Press, “Aviation Expert Dies”, The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Tuesday 1 August 1944, Volume 50, page 2.

Bibliography

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