Aviation Genius, one of the greatest designers of the USSR, twice Hero of Socialist Labor and ten -time cavalier of the Order of Lenin, laureate of the state, Lenin and six Stalinist prizes, a favorite and personal adviser to a leader who, at the age of 33, who became the deputy commissar of aviation industry in new equipment and held this position, the general designer of the legendary OKB, who created more devices, from the famous fighters of the Great Patriotic War to the first jet machines, from landing planners to helicopters, from passenger airliners to vertical take -off and drones – the contribution of Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev to Russian aircraft construction cannot be overestimated: for 70 years, 70 thousand Yakov have been built!
However, recently there have been more and more publications accusing the great aircraft designer of “intrigues”, “using an official position against competitors” (it is claimed that it was Yakovlev who played a “fatal role” in with …
Author
Ostapenko Yuri Andreevich
Editor
Galkina D.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Aviation geniuses
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