Артём Микоян
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2012
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet - Armenian aircraft designer. In partnership with Mikhail Gurevich he designed many of the famous MiG military aircraft.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2012
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet - Armenian aircraft designer. In partnership with Mikhail Gurevich he designed many of the famous MiG military aircraft.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2012
Nikolay Ilyich Kamov was a Soviet aerospace engineer, a pioneer in the design ofhelicopters, and founder of the Kamov helicopter design bureau.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2012
Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev(Beriashvili) was a Soviet - Georgian major general, founder and chief designer of the Beriev Design Bureau in Taganrog, which concentrated onamphibious aircraft.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2012
Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev 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)
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2012
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer.
During his career, he designed and oversaw the design of more than 100 types of aircraft, some of which set 78 world records. In recognition of his work, he was made an honorary member of Britain's Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He was honoured in his own country by being made an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1953), Colonel-General (1968), and three times a Hero of Socialist Labor (1945, 1957, 1972).
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2012
Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin was a Soviet aerospace engineer,Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau. Many of his fighter designs were produced in large numbers for Soviet forces duringWorld War II.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2012
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed theYakovlev military aircraft and founded theYakovlev Design Bureau.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2012
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin was a Sovietaircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2012
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was a Soviet aerospace engineer. He designed the Sukhoi military aircraft until the 1970s, and founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 2012
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov was a Soviet aeronautical engineerand aircraft designer, known as "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak "Little Donkey" fighter.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2012
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a prominent Soviet aircraft designer, and the first chief of Antonov - a world-famous aircraft company in Ukraine, later named in his honour.
Antonov was personally responsible for designing a number of very successful Soviet airplanes (such as the Antonov An-12) and gliders for both civilian and military use.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 17, 2012
Mikhail Leontyevich Mil is aerospace engineer and scientist. Founder and general designer of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant.