Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev

Russian aerospace engineer

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1902

Place of Birth: Yefremov, Tula Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1978

Profession: engineer, politician, aerospace engineer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev

  • Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (Russian: ???????? ?????????? ???????) (September 28, 1902 in Yefremov – October 14, 1978 in Moscow) was a Soviet aircraft designer, Major General of Engineering (1944), Hero of Socialist Labor (1957), Doctor of Technical Sciences (1959), Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR (1972).After his graduation from Moscow State Technical University in 1926, Myasishchev worked at the Tupolev Design Bureau and took part in constructing airplanes, such as TB-1, TB-3, and Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky.
  • As an assistant to Boris Pavlovich Lisunov, he traveled to the United States in 1937 to help translate the Douglas DC-3 drawings in preparation for the production of the Lisunov Li-2.In 1938, Myasishchev became a victim of a repression campaign.
  • While in confinement, he worked at NKVD's Central Design Bureau No.
  • 29 (???-29 ????) in Moscow under the guidance of Vladimir Petlyakov, designing the Pe-2 bomber.
  • In 1940, after his release, Myasishchev headed a design bureau (in the same building), working on the long-range high-altitude bomber DVB-102 (???-102).
  • In 1946–1951, Myasishchev was the head of the faculty and later dean of the Department of Aircraft Design at Moscow Aviation Institute.
  • In 1956, he became chief aircraft designer.
  • In 1960–1967, Myasishchev was appointed Head of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI).
  • In 1967–1978, Myasishchev held a post of the chief aircraft designer of the Experimental Machine Building Factory, which would bear his name starting 1981.Myasishchev designed different kinds of military aircraft, including Pe-2B, Pe-2I, Pe-2M, DIS, DB-108, M-4, 3M, M-50.
  • He also worked on a cargo aircraft VM-T Atlant and high-altitude airplane M-17 Stratosfera.
  • Among Myasishchev's aeroplane designs, the 3M and M-4 set nineteen world records, and the M-17 "Stratosfera" twenty.Myasishchev was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor gold star (in 1957), three Orders of Lenin (in 1945, 1957, 1962), the Order of Suvorov II degree (in 1944), the Order of the October Revolution (in 1971), and medals.

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