Yakovlev company

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (April 1, 1906 -A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC is a Russian aircraft
August 22, 1989) was a Russian aeronautical engineerdesigner and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak).
and airplane designer. He designed the YakovlevIt was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander
military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev DesignSergeevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 (the design bureau
Bureau.has got its own production base at the facility ?115),
Yakovlev was a founder of Soviet aviation modeling,but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the
air gliding, and aviation sport. He built the AVF-10day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed
glider in 1924 and ultralight aircraft AIR-1 in 1927.within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP
These were his very first aircraft used for sport and(Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the
training.supervision of A.S.Yakovlev.
He worked as a motor technician beginning in 1924,During World War II Yakovlev designed and
and then became a student of the Air Forceproduced a famed line of fighter aircraft.
Academy of RKKA (Red Army), named after Prof.It was merged into the Yak Aviation Company with
N.E.Zhukovski (1927-1931). He was an engineer at anSmolensk Aviation Plant Joint Stock Company in
aviation plant in 1931, where his first design bureau ofMarch 1992, although the two companies continued
lightweight aviation was established in 1932. Heto be operated separately. It later underwent
became the main designer in 1935, then the chiefprivatization and became Yak Aircraft Corporation.
designer (1956-1984) of aircraft for the YakovlevThe Russian government is planning to merge the
Design Bureau.holding company with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi
He was a Vice-Minister of Aviation Industry betweenand Tupolev as a new company named United
1940-1946.Aircraft Building Corporation.
He was a correspondent-member of the USSRThe firm is the designer of the Pchela (Russian: ?????,
Academy of Science in 1943, and was awarded the"bee", drone reconnaissance aircraft) (bee), and is
Hero of Socialist Labor in both 1940 and 1957. Inperhaps best known for its highly successful line of
1946 he was awarded the title "General-Colonel ofWorld War II-era piston-engined fighter aircraft.
Aviation". In 1976 he became academician of theThe name "Yakovlev" is used commonly in the West,
USSR Academy of Science. Yakovlev retired Augustbut in Russia it is always abbreviated as Yak (Russian
21, 1984.language: ??) as a part of aircraft name. The German
Yakovlev was awarded many medals and honorstransliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and
during his career.others as well, is Jak.