Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (April 1, 1906 - August 22, 1989) was a Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau.

Yakovlev was a founder of Soviet aviation modeling, air gliding, and aviation sport. He built the AVF-10 glider in 1924 and ultralight aircraft AIR-1 in 1927. These were his very first aircrafts used for sport and training.

He worked as a motor technician beginning in 1924, and then became a student of the Air Force Academy of RKKA (Red Army), named after Prof. N.E.Zhukovski (1927-1931). He was an engineer at an aviation plant in 1931, where his first design bureau of lightweight aviation was established in 1932. He became the main designer in 1935, then the chief designer (1956-1984) of aircrafts for the Yakovlev Design Bureau.

He was a vice-minister (заместитель наркома) of aviation industry in 1940-1946.

He was a correspondent-member of the USSR Academy of Science in 1943, and was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor in both 1940 and 1957. In 1946 he was awarded the title "General-Colonel of Aviation". In 1976 he became academician of the USSR Academy of Science . Yakovlev retired August 21st, 1984.

Yakovlev was awarded many medals and honors during his career.

• He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1946-1989).
• Lenin Award (1972)
• State Awards of the USSR (1941,1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1977)
• Gold Aviation medal of FAI
• Ten Orders of Lenin
• Order of October Revolution
• Two Orders of Red Banner
• Orders of Suvorov of the 1st and the 2nd rank,
• Two "Patriotic War" Orders of the 1st rank
• Order of Labor Red Banner
• Order of Red Star
• French Orders of Legion of Honor
• Officer's Cross

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