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    Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1892 – 30 July 1944) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer...
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    believed to have continued until 1959. The aircraft was designed by Nikolai Polikarpov to replace the U-1 trainer (a copy of the British Avro 504), which...
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    The Polikarpov I-15 (Russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed Chaika (Russian: Чайка, "Seagull") because of its gulled...
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    Siipiorava "(flying squirrel)". While working on the Polikarpov I-15 biplane, Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov began designing an advanced monoplane fighter....
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    Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and...
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    in total. The R-5 was developed by the design bureau led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov as a replacement for the R-1(an unlicensed version of the DH...
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    The Polikarpov I-180 (Russian: И-180) was a 1938 Soviet fighter prototype. It was the last attempt to extract performance from the basic Polikarpov I-16...
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    The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Nikolai Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB)...
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  • Concurrently, Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov's group was tasked with creating a wood-construction aircraft designated as the Polikarpov I-6 to the same...
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    The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian Чайка, "Seagull") is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage...
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    the Polikarpov construction bureau. Work started in June 1939, under the direction of Nikolai Polikarpov and his assistant M. Tetivikin. Polikarpov himself...
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  • already in production and the program was cancelled. In November 1940, Nikolai Polikarpov proposed a heavy cannon-armed fighter for bomber escort duties and...
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    Airco DH.9A (redirect from Polikarpov R-1)
    being retired in 1931. Over 2,400 examples of an unlicensed version, the Polikarpov R-1, were built in the Soviet Union, the type serving as the standard...
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  • September 1944 and the program was canceled after the death of Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, the chief designer of his eponymous OKB, earlier that year...
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  • and steel tube construction Polikarpov I-5. Its development took longer than planned and the lead designer, Nikolai Polikarpov, was arrested for industrial...
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    designers and aerospace engineers, such as Yulii Khariton, Oleg Antonov, Nikolai Polikarpov, and Georgy Beriev, and chess grandmasters, such as David Bronstein...
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    Shpitalniy, Nikolai Polikarpov, Alexander Yakovlev and Vladimir Klimov [ru]. Post-1945 recipients include Mikhail Koshkin, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Nikolai Afanasyev...
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    occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 Unto Parvilahti, SS-Officer Nikolai Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer Yevgeny Polivanov, Soviet linguist,...
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    of the MiG aircraft manufacturer Fritz Noether, mathematician Nikolai Polikarpov, aviation designer Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, statesman Vladimir Karlovich...
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    aircraft design bureau staffed by prisoners of Butyrka prison, including Nikolai Polikarpov and Dmitry Grigorovich. In 1930–1931 the sharashka, now based on Khodynka...
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    Aviation Institute in 1937. He worked with famous aircraft designers Nikolai Polikarpov and later, Artem Mikoyan. Then he moved to the field of ballistic...
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    development of the design requirements for the new aeroplanes of Nikolai Polikarpov and Andrei Tupolev. This time he was also appointed Assistant Chief...
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    not entirely clear. Neither of the aircraft's two chief designers, Nikolai Polikarpov and Dmitry Tomashevich, approved the flight, and no one had signed...
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  • refuel from the bomber. The definitive Zveno-SPB using a TB-3 and two Polikarpov I-16s, each armed with two 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, was used operationally...
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  • been built before the program was terminated upon the death of Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, the head of the aircraft's design bureau, in 1944. The origins...
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    Tomashevich, the designer, all came under suspicion of sabotage. Nikolai Polikarpov escaped arrest. The Soviets displayed the ANT-25 flown by Chkalov...
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  • June 1 – Amānullāh Khān, ruler of Afghanistan (d. 1960) June 8 – Nikolai Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d. 1944) June 13...
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    Department) of Aviatrest (Aviation Trust) under the supervision of Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, head designer of the department. There was much debate within...
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  • Werner Schrader, German resistance member (suicide) (b. 1895) July 30 Nikolai Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1892) Lee...
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  • due to manufacturing defects, and the program was cancelled. Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov began design of a two-seat fighter initially designated as the...
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