Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Гуревич, scientific transliteration Mikhail Iosifovič Gurevič; born December 31 1892jul / 12 January 1893greg in Rubanschtschina at Sudzha, Kursk Oblast, .. † 25 November 1976 in Moscow) was a Soviet aircraft designer.
Life
His father was a mechanic and distillers. From 1902 to 1910 he attended high school in Achtyrka at Kharkov and enrolled in the same year at the Mathematics Department of the University of Kharkov one. In 1911 he was expelled for his involvement in student unrest. He therefore went to France and enrolled at the University of Montpellier. During a home leave in 1914 the First World War broke out and Gurevich had to interrupt his studies, but took it back to 1917 in Kharkov. During this time, he designed gliders " Aist " and originated in the local flyer club " boomerang ". Both participated in 1924 in the Soviet Gliding Championships in Koktebel part. Published in 1925 Gurevich first instructions to strength calculations and references for the construction of gliders. Also in 1925 he finished his studies with a degree in " aircraft ".
From 1926 to 1929 he worked as he could not find employment in the aircraft industry, in the development of ventilation systems in the union " heat and power." In late 1929 he finally went to Moscow and found a job in the engineering group OMOS (Department of Seaplane Versuchsbau ) by Paul Richard, a French designer who designed seaplanes for the " AWIAPROM ". In this team so outstanding people like Georgi Beriev, Nikolai Kamov, Sergei Korolev, Vadim and Igor Shafrov Tschetwerikow worked. The group projected the 1929 ocean-going torpedo flying boat TOM -1, which was rejected in favor of the TB- 1P by Tupolev. Therefore Paul Richard went back to France and his office took over his deputy André Liaville. After a period of ill-planned restructuring attempts Gurevich In 1932, the Moscow Aviation Plant No. 39 to the group by Sergei Kotscherigin. There he was instrumental in the construction of aircraft battle lish -3, which does not make it past the testing stage.
In 1936 Gurevich with a group of designers under Boris Lissunow in the United States to acquire the license for the DC-3 for the Soviet Union. 1 1/2 years, the team was busy to transfer to the metric system U.S. measurements. In the fall of 1938, the developer went back to the USSR and prepared the production of the DC-3 under the designation PS -84 (later Li -2) in the aircraft factory No.84 in Khimki in Moscow.
1939 moved Gurevich at the invitation Nikolai Karpov Poli in the OKB, where he gave suggestions for improvement for the production of I-153. There he met his future team partner Artem Mikoyan know. This meant the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. On December 8, 1939, the founding of the famous Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau was. The first model was the fighter aircraft MiG -1 by 1940.
1946 he was appointed chairman of the state examination commission of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI ).
1958 Gurevich was chief designer of OKB Mikoyan -Gurevich and remained there until his retirement in 1964.
Gurevich, who was never a member of the Communist Party, received his doctorate in 1964 for technical sciences. The last model, on which he collaborated, was the interceptor MiG- 25th
Gurevich provided the mathematical basis for the success of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau. In particular, high speed, good climbing performance and high peak height was chosen as basis in the calculations.
For his work Gurevich received high honors, in 1963 the Order of Lenin in 1957 and the Order of Hero of Socialist Labor. The State Prize was him in 1941 ( for the work on the MiG -1 ), 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952 and 1953 awarded.