YAKOVLEV 428 



Residence: Leninskii Prospekt, 13 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: B2 11 13 



YAKOVLEV, ALEKSANDR SERGEEVICH (Aircraft Designer) 

 A. S. Yakovlev was born April 1, 1906. He was a Colonel- 

 General in the Engineering Technical Service. In 1931, he 

 graduated from the Military Air Engineering Academy in Mos- 

 cow. In 1934 he was Chief, and in 1957, he became General 

 Designer of the Experimental-Designing Bureau. From 1940- 

 1948 he was deputy of the People's Commissariat and subse- 

 quently deputy Minister of the Aviation Industry. He was a 

 delegate to the Supreme Soviet at the second and fifth convo- 

 cations. Yakovlev has been a member of the Communist Party 

 since 1938. He has been awarded the title Hero of Socialist 

 Labor, and was the recipient of a Stalin Prize in 1941, 1942, 

 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1948. In 1943 he was elected to the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member. 



Yakovlev designed a number of planes for different purpos- 

 es—sports, training, passenger, fighters, bombers and heli- 

 copters. Among the training and passenger airplanes, these 

 are outstanding: training planes UT-1 and UT-2, planes for 

 communication YAK- 12, which is utilized in agriculture and as 

 a light passenger airplane, the YAK- 18 for beginners' study and 

 training. Yakovlev has also designed combat, piston and jet 

 airplanes, primarily fighters and fighter-interceptors. In 

 the beginning of World War II he designed a fighter, the YAK-1, 

 which was widely employed. Also well known is the fighter 

 YAK-9 and particularly the YAK-3 which was one of the main 

 fighters among those participating in World War II (1941-45) 

 and which had high speed and maneuverability. Under the 

 leadership of Yakovlev, the first jet fighter, the YAK- 15 was 

 designed in 1945, and subsequently the jet fighters YAK-17, 

 YAK-23 and later a series of jet supersonic fighters. Yakovlev 

 also designed helicopters, including the twin-engine helicopter, 

 the "Flying Car"— the YAK-24. He is the author of memoirs 

 "Stories of an Aircraft Designer" (1957). 



In March 1962, Yakovlev was elected to the Council of 

 Nationalities. 



Office: USSR Academy of Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 14 

 Moscow, USSR 



