Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev (russian: Анатолий Георгиевич Уфимцев) (1880-1936) was a Russian engineer and

aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

pioneer. He was born in

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

. He invented a

radial engine The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from the front, and is ca ...

for which he received a Russian patent and designed his own vehicles "Spheroplane 1" () and "Spheroplane 2" (). He later designed and built agricultural equipment and wind turbines.

Ufimtsev's inventions

File:Сфероплан №1 1.jpg, Spheroplane 1 File:Сфероплан №1 2.jpg, Schematics of Spheroplane 1 File:Сфероплан №2.jpg, Spheroplane 2 File:Ufimtsev wind turbine.jpg, Wind turbine in Kursk (in work 1931-1936)

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1880 births 1936 deaths 20th-century Russian inventors Russian aerospace engineers People from Kursk Aviation inventors {{Russia-scientist-stub