Arkadiy Shvetsov

Arkady Dmitrievich Shvetsov (Russian Аркадий Дмитриевич Швецов, scientific transliteration Arkady Dmitrievič Švecov; * 12 Januarjul / January 24 1892greg in Nischnije Sergi in Yekaterinburg, .. † 19 March 1953 Moscow) was a Soviet engine designer.

Constructions

Shvetsov developed in 1923 along with his collective the V12 aircraft engine M-8 RAM. However, he soon turned to the development of radial engines. 1925 was the 5-cylinder radial engine M-11 into production. New for the USSR was the use of aluminum for the cylinder heads. This type continues to evolve, it was still made in the 1980s. Its use was Po-2 in the Polikarpov. It should be made ​​with 125,000 copies, one of the most widely used aircraft engines at all.

1934 Shvetsov founder and chief designer of Awiadwigatel which worked closely with the Perm Engine Company. There him before the ASch - 73TK (for the Tupolev Tu -4 ) was achieved and during the Second World War, the construction of some of which originate from foreign types of major aircraft engines, as the used in the Antonov An-2 ASch -62, and the ASch -82, which was incorporated, inter alia, in the La - Lawotschkin 5.

Awards

Shvetsov received five times the Order of Lenin (1936, 1943, 1945, 1949 and 1952), the Suworoworden 2nd class, the Kutusoworden first class, the Red Banner of work, the Order of Hero of Socialist Labor (1942 ), four times the Stalin Prize (1942, 1943, 1946 and 1948) and the medal "For heroic work during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ". 1940 Shvetsov was Doctor of Technical Sciences.

The Shvetsov radial engine family

On 1 April 1944 the Soviet engine designation system was changed: instead of the "M " designation, the engines were from now on a polymer formed from the name of the designer shortcuts. Schwezows engines were called off because " ASch " for Arkady Shvetsov (Russian АШ )