Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer)
Soviet aircraft designer (1893–1976) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Iosifovich and the family name is Gurevich.
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (Russian: Михаи́л Ио́сифович Гуре́вич) (12 January 1893 [O.S. 31 December 1892] – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.
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Mikhail Gurevich | |
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Михаил Гуревич | |
Born | 12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 Rubanshchina, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 12 November 1976(1976-11-12) (aged 83) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Soviet |
Occupation | Engineer |
Engineering career | |
Discipline | Aeronautical Engineering |
Employer(s) | Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau |
Significant design | MiG-1 MiG-3 MiG-15 MiG-17 MiG-19 MiG-21 MiG-23 MiG-25 |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labor |
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