List of Russian aerospace engineers

Sergei Korolyov, the key man in the Soviet space program

This list of Russian aerospace engineers includes the designers of aircraft, rocketry and spacecraft, and developers of auxiliary aerospace technologies from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

See also the Category:Russian aerospace engineers.

Alphabetical list

A

Antonov

• Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed hydrofoils (raketa) and ekranoplans, including the Caspian Sea Monster
• Oleg Antonov, designer of the An-series aircraft, including A-40 winged tank and An-124 (the largest serial cargo, later modified to world's largest fixed-wing aircraft An-225)
• Alexander Arkhangelsky, designer of the Ar-series aircraft
• Yuri Artsutanov, pioneered the idea of the space elevator

G

Glushko

• Valentyn Glushko, inventor of hypergolic propellant and electric propulsion; designer of the world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170
• Dmitry Grigorovich, designer of the Grigorovich-series aircraft, including the first flying boat
• Pyotr Grushin, inventor of anti-ballistic missile
• Mikhail Gurevich, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21

K

Kotelnikov

• Nikolay Kamov, designer of the Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters
• Mstislav Keldysh, developer of the first satellite (Sputnik) and Keldysh bomber
• Alexander Kemurdzhian, inventor of the first space exploration rover Lunokhod
• Kerim Kerimov, the secret figure behind the Soviet space program
• Nikolai Kibalchich, pioneer of rocketry; the International Astronomical Union honoured him by naming a crater on the moon Kibal'chich
• Sergei Korolyov, "the Father of the Soviet space program", inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the first human spaceflight
• Gleb Kotelnikov, inventor of the knapsack parachute and drogue parachute

M

Mironov

• Victor Makeev, developer of the first intercontinental SLBM
• Artem Mikoyan, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21
• Arseny Mironov, oldest active scientist in flight dynamics and aircraft safety, Stalin Prize recipient (1948) for the new method of aerodynamic research, USSR State Prize recipient (1976) for the completion of flight testing of the Su-24 heavy fighter-bomber aircraft
• Alexander Mikulin, designer of Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines; co-developer of the Tsar Tank
• Mikhail Mil, designer of the Mi-series helicopters, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
• Pavel Molchanov, inventor of radiosonde
• Alexander Mozhaysky, author of the first attempt to create heavier-than-air craft in Russia; designed the largest of 19th century airplanes
• Vladimir Myasishchev, founder of the Myasishchev Design Bureau

P

Polikarpov

• Vladimir Petlyakov, designer of the Pe-series military aircraft
• Nikolay Pilyugin, chief designer of Soviet rocket guidance systems
• Mikhail Pogosyan, designer of Su-47 and Su-30 series
• Nikolai Polikarpov, designer of the Po-series aircraft, including Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
• Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, inventor of ionocraft and gyroscopically stabilized bombsight

See also