List of Russian aerospace engineers

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This list of Russian aerospace engineers includes the designers of aircraft, rocketry and spacecraft, and developers of auxiliary aerospace technologies from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

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Alphabetical list

Contents:

Rostislav Alexeyev, designer of high-speed hydrofoils (raketa) and ekranoplans, including the Caspian Sea Monster
Oleg Antonov, designer of the An-series aircraft, including A-40 winged tank and An-124 (the largest serial cargo, later modified to world's largest fixed-wing aircraft An-225)
Alexander Arkhangelsky, designer of the Ar-series aircraft
Yuri Artsutanov, pioneered the idea of the space elevator

Georgy Babakin, designer of the first soft landing space vehicle Luna 9
Vladimir Barmin, designer of the world's first rocket launch complex (Baikonur spaceport)
Robert Bartini, developer of ekranoplans and VTOL amphibious aircraft, physicist, tutor to many other aerospace designers
Alexander Bereznyak, designer of the first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1
Georgy Beriev, designer of the Be-series amphibious aircraft
Georgy Bothezat, inventor of the quadrotor helicopter, The Flying Octopus

Vladimir Chelomey, designer of the first space station Salyut 1, creator of Proton rocket (the most used heavy lift launch system)
Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky, creator of the world's first flying wing aircraft
Boris Chertok, major Soviet rocket designer; author of the four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source on the history of the Soviet space program
Evgeniy Chertovsky, inventor of the pressure suit

Valentyn Glushko, inventor of hypergolic propellant and electric propulsion; designer of the world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170
Dmitry Grigorovich, designer of the Grigorovich-series aircraft, including the first flying boat
Pyotr Grushin, inventor of anti-ballistic missile
Mikhail Gurevich, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21

Sergey Ilyushin, designer of the Il-series fighter aircraft, including Il-2 bomber (the most produced military aircraft in history)
Andronik Iosifyan, chief electrician of Soviet missiles and spacecraft, including the R-7 Semyorka and the Soyuz spacecraft
Aleksei Isaev, designer of the first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1

Semyon Lavochkin, designer of the La-series aircraft and the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath scientist and artist, inventor of coaxial rotor and the first model helicopter
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, designer of the Buran space shuttle and Spiral project
Arkhip Lyulka, designer of the Lyulka-series aircraft engines, including the first double jet turbofan engine

Victor Makeev, developer of the first intercontinental SLBM
Artem Mikoyan, designer of the MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21

Arseny Mironov, scientist in flight dynamics and aircraft safety, Stalin Prize recipient (1948) for the new method of aerodynamic research, USSR State Prize recipient (1976) for the completion of flight testing of the Su-24 fighter-bomber
Alexander Mikulin, designer of Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines; co-developer of the Tsar Tank
Mikhail Mil, designer of the Mi-series helicopters, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
Pavel Molchanov, inventor of radiosonde
Alexander Mozhaysky, author of the first attempt to create heavier-than-air craft in Russia; designed the largest of 19th century airplanes
Vladimir Myasishchev, founder of the Myasishchev Design Bureau

Alexander Nadiradze, designer of the first mobile ICBM RT-21 Temp 2S and the first reliable mobile ICBM RT-2PM Topol

Vladimir Petlyakov, designer of the Pe-series military aircraft
Nikolay Pilyugin, chief designer of Soviet rocket guidance systems
Mikhail Pogosyan, designer of Sukhoi aircraft, including SSJ100, Su-47, Su-57 and Su-30 series
Nikolai Polikarpov, designer of the Po-series aircraft, including Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, inventor of ionocraft and gyroscopically stabilized bombsight

Guy Severin, designer of the first extra-vehicular activity supporting system
Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket
Igor Sikorsky, inventor of airliner and strategic bomber (Ilya Muromets), father of modern helicopter, designer of the Sikorsky-series helicopters
Mikhail Simonov, chief designer of the Su-27 fighter jet, as well as Su-24 and Su-25 military aircraft
Boris Stechkin, co-developer of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and Lebedenko's Tsar Tank, designer of many heat and aircraft engines
Pavel Sukhoi, designer of the Su-series fighter aircraft
Vladimir Syromyatnikov, designer of the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System

Mikhail Tikhonravov, designer of Sputniks, including the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1
Max Taitz, scientist in aerodynamics, theory of jet engines and flight testing of aircraft, one of the founders of the Gromov Flight Research Institute
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, principal pioneer of astronautics, designed an early wind tunnel
Alexei Tupolev, designer of the Tu-series aircraft, including the first supersonic transport Tu-144
Andrey Tupolev, designer of the Tu-series aircraft, including the turboprop long-range airliner Tu-114 and turboprop strategic bomber Tu-95

Alexander Yakovlev, designer of the Yak-series aircraft, including the first regional jet Yak-40

Friedrich Zander, designed the first liquid-fuel rocket in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, pioneer of astronautics
Nikolai Zhukovsky, founder of modern aero- and hydrodynamics; pioneer of aviation in Russia; designer of an early wind tunnel and co-developer of the Tsar Tank