Pavel Sukhoi
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Pavel Osipovich SukhoiHero of Socialist Labor and awarded the Order of Lenin three times.[1]
Biography
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was born 22 July 1895 in
entrance exams. However, Sukhoi's studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army following the escalation of World War I
.
Sukhoi attended
Brest-Litovsk. In 1919, Sukhoi fled to Gomel as Polish troops advanced on Luninets during the Polish–Soviet War, and began teaching at the school for the children of railway workers headed by his father.[6] Around this time, Sukhoi contracted typhus and then scarlet fever which significantly affected his ability to speak, and he developed a reputation as a quiet person for the remainder of his life.[citation needed
]
In 1920, Sukhoi was finally
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and Moscow Factory Number 156 under Tupolev. During the following years, Sukhoi designed and constructed aircraft including the record-setting Tupolev ANT-25 and the TB-1 and TB-3 heavy bombers. In 1932, Sukhoi was appointed head of the engineering and design department of TsAGI, and in 1938 he was promoted to head of the department of design. Sukhoi also developed a multi-purpose light aircraft, the Su-2, which saw service in the early years of the Eastern Front of World War II.[7]
In September 1939, Sukhoi founded an independent engineering and design department named
ground-attack aircraft, the Su-6, but Soviet leader Joseph Stalin decided that this plane should not be put into production, favouring production of the Ilyushin Il-2
.
In the postwar years, Sukhoi was among the first Soviet aircraft designers who led the work on
Sukhoi died on 15 September 1975 at the Barvikha sanatorium in Moscow, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.[10] The last fighter Sukhoi designed was the T-10 (Su-27) but he did not live to see it fly.
Awards and honors
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1957, 1965)[1]
- Lenin Prize (1968)[10]
- Su-6[10]
- USSR State Prize (1975—posthumous)[10]
- Three Orders of Lenin (1945, 1957, 1975)[1]
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1936)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1938)
- Order of the Red Star (1933)
- Tupolev Gold Medal—For outstanding work in the field of aeronautical science and engineering (1975)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Сухой Павел Осипович. Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ Variously romanized as Sukhoy, Sukhoj
- ^ Central Museum of the Military Air Forces of the Russian Federation
- ^ Kuzmina, p. 7
- ^ Kuzmina, p. 8
- ^ Kuzmina, pp. 15–16
- ^ Kuzmina, pp. 18–20
- ISBN 9789856721987– via Google Books Russian→English translation.
- ISBN 9785457239777– via Google Books Russian→English translation.
- ^ a b c d Сухой Павел Осипович. Moscow Encyclopedia
Cited sources
- Kuzmina, L. M. (1983). Генеральный [авиационный] конструктор Павел Сухой. Страницы жизни. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya.
Further reading
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- Bull, Stephan (2004). Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation. Greenwood. ISBN 1-57356-557-1.
- Duffy, Paul (December 1996). Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft. Society of Automotive Engineers. ISBN 1-56091-899-3.
- Gordon, Yefim (2008). Soviet Air Power in World War II. Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-304-3.
- Pederson, Jay (1998). International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 24. St James Press. ISBN 1-55862-365-5.
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