Polikarpov biography briefly

Encyclopedia Polikarpov, Nikolai Nikolaevich was born on July 8 of the city of the Russian Federation in the family of a priest. After graduating from the Livensky Theological School, now the Lyceum named after S. Bulgakov, Livna visited the Oryol seminary, but did not graduate from it.

Against the will of his father, he passed the exterior exams for the course of the gymnasium and in the city in the GG. Doctor of Technical Sciences Professor of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Head of the Department of Construction of Aircraft at the Institute combined with the work by the technician-builder, assistant foreman, engineer in the Petrograd branch of the Moscow plant "DUKS", an engineer at the air factory Vladimir Lebedev, etc.

After the defense of the diploma project in the city, after the October Revolution, Nikolai Polikarov was engaged in this organization in this organization issues of supply, planning and construction of aviation plants. In August, in the city of Polikarpov he was arrested on charges of participating in the “counter -revolutionary wrecking organization” and sabotage.

He did not plead guilty. He continued to develop aircraft together with Dmitry Grigorovich - in particular, he was created by a fighter in March of the city. Nikolai Polikarpov was sentenced by the OGPU collegium to ten years of camps, however, on June 28 of the same year, after a successful show of the I-5 fighter to Soviet leaders, the OGPU college decided to consider the verdict conditional.

Nikolai Polikarpov participated in the creation of aircraft that formed the basis of the Soviet fighter aircraft in the pre -war years - and, and, and the "seagull", and in November in Khimki, the Moscow region. Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod. After the arrest of the aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev in the city was not entrusted to the chief designer, a number of bureau employees were repressed.

In February, later in the city of Nikolai Polikarpov, he became the director and chief designer of the OKB. He had to create a production base from almost scratch. One of the latest works by the designer was the project of a reactive fighter-interceptor "Malyutka". The aircraft designer was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. After the death of Polikarpov, the design bureau was headed by Vladimir Vybeliy.

The efforts of the team in the future were concentrated on the development of the first cruise missiles in the USSR with air-reactive engines. Nikolai Polikarpov developed a total of over 80 aircraft of different types. Under the leadership of Polikarpov, the future well -known designers of Soviet aviation and missile and space technology, Artem Mikoyan, Mikhail Youngel, Alexander Stopalov, Vsevolod Tairov and others, were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor, was awarded two Orders of the Red Star of the Stalinsky Prize of the I degree, the monuments of the air designer and the Hero of Socialist Labor.

Memorial boards are installed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Oryol, Livny. The museum operates in with. Kalinino Oryol region Polikarpov named Mountain Peak on Pamir, Square in Orel, Streets in Orel, Moscow and Livni, Alley in St. Petersburg, as well as the land shipping ship of the project