Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev 19 March/1 April 1906 in Moscow; died August 22, 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer
Already during his studies (completed in 1931) at the Moscow Military Aeronautical Academy, he participated in the construction of training and competition aircraft. He then worked as a designer in an aircraft factory where he became chief engineer in 1934 and which was renamed after him (see Yakovlev).
In 1937, he was appointed director of the prototype design office. From 1940 to 1948, he was Deputy People's Commissar and then Minister of Aeronautical Industry.
At the time of the aggression of the USSR by Hitler's Germany, he continued to direct the design office and was in charge in parallel (from the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1942) of the evacuation of the factories towards the center of the country and to organize production there. In his memoirs, Yakovlev recounts his talks with Stalin who exercised a strong influence down to the smallest detail on various aspects of the development of industry, especially aeronautics and in particular combat aircraft.
Yakovlev was extremely verbose. In addition to training and competition aircraft, he built transport aircraft, fighters, bombers and helicopters. Its best-known models are the UT-1, UT-2, Yak-11, Yak-18 training and competition aircraft, the Yak-12 liaison and transport aircraft and the Yak 1, Yak-3 fighters and Yak-9. He had also established the project for the first Soviet Yak-15 jet aircraft certified in 1947, an unlucky competitor to the MiG-9.
He is also credited with the tandem-rotor helicopter Yak-24 flying wagon.
The best-known civilian models today are the Yak-42 medium-haul trijet and many aerobatic aircraft. In total, the Yakovlev design office has produced hundreds of different aircraft.
Yakovlev has received numerous honors for his work. He was decorated no less than seven times with the Order of Lenin. He was also awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor of the Soviet Union. He had the rank of Air Force General.
Yakovlev is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (Soviet at the time of the USSR). The design office prefix is Yak. The design bureau was founded by Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev in 1934 under the name OKB-115.
The name Yakovlev is widely used by countries of the former western bloc, but in Russia this name is shortened to Yak followed by the name of the aircraft.
Aircraft designed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau
* AIR-1
* AIR-2
* AIR-3
* AIR-4
* AIR-5
* AIR-6 (general purpose)
* AIR-17
* UT-1 (AIR-14) (1936 - 1-seat training aircraft)
* UT-2 (AIR-10, Ya-20) (1935 - 2-seat training aircraft)
* Yak-1 (1940 - WWII fighter aircraft)
* Yak -2 (1940 - WWII bomber)
* Yak-3 (1943 - WWII fighter aircraft, improvement of Yak-1)
* Yak-4 (1940 - WWII bomber, improvement of Yak-2)
* Yak-5 (1941 - prototype WWII fighter aircraft, improvement of the Yak-1)
* Yak-6 (1942 - av transport ion)
* Yak-7 (1942 - WWII fighter and training aircraft, improvement of Yak-1)
* Yak-8 (1944 - transport aircraft, improvement of Yak-6)
* Yak-9 (1944 - WWII fighter aircraft, improvement of Yak-1)
* Yak-10 (liaison)
* Yak-11 (1948 - training aircraft)
* Yak-12 (1947 - liaison - general-purpose)
* Yak-13 (improvement of the Yak-10, prototype)
A Yak-23
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A Yak-23
* Yak-15 (1946 - first jet fighter)
* Yak-17 (1947 - fighter aircraft)
* Yak-18 (1946 - training aircraft)
* Yak-19
* Yak -23 (1949 - fighter plane)
* Yak-24 (1955 - transport helicopter)
* Yak-25 (1953 - interceptor aircraft)
* Yak-26 (tactical bomber)
* Yak-27 (reconnaissance)
* Yak-28 (multirole bomber and interceptor)
* Yak-36 (demonstration aircraft vertical take-off)
* Yak-38 (vertical take-off aircraft)
* Yak-40 (airliner)
* Yak-41
* Yak-42 (airliner)
* Yak-50 (1949 prototype fighter, 1975 aerobatic aircraft)
* Yak-52 (aerobatic and training aircraft)
* Yak-54 (sport)
* Yak -55 (1982 - aerobatic aircraft)
* Yak-56
* Yak-112 (multipurpose)
* Yak- 130 (trainer aircraft)
* Yak-141 (claimed the first vertical take-off fighter performing supersonic flight)
* Pchela (bumblebee) (reconnaissance drone)