Ivchenko-Progress ZMKB ( uk, Запорізьке машинобудівне конструкторське бюро «Прогрес» ім. О.Г.Івченка, ''Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Design Bureau "Progress" State Enterprise named after Academician O.H.Ivchenko''), formerly OKB-478 and Ivchenko Lotarev, is a state design bureau that creates drafts and plans for

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s in

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zapor ...

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whose products are widely used in both civil and

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, most notably by

Antonov Antonov State Enterprise ( uk, Державне підприємство «Антонов»), formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov (Antonov ASTC) ( uk, Авіаційний науково-технічни� ...

Beriev The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (russian: Таганрогский авиационный научно-технический комплекс им. Г. М. Бериева, , Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific Technical Complex), formerly Beriev ...

Ilyushin The public joint stock company Ilyushin Aviation Complex, operating as Ilyushin (russian: Илью́шин) or as Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a former Soviet and now a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau, founded in 1933 by Sergey Vl ...

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, Mil and

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. The design bureau works closely with

Motor Sich The Motor Sich Joint Stock Company ( uk, АТ «Мотор Січ») is a Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturer headquartered in Zaporizhzhia. The company manufactures engines for airplanes and helicopters, and also industrial marine gas turbi ...

, the turbine manufacturer located in

which produces those

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s. Polish manufacturer

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used the Progress ZMKB AI-25TL engine in the PZL M15 cropduster. Both the largest plane in the world, the

Antonov An-225 Mriya The Antonov An-225 Mriya ( uk, Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, lit=dream' or 'inspiration; NATO reporting name: Cossack) was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. It was o ...

and the largest helicopter, the

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, are powered by Progress/Lotarev engines. The bureau is administered by the Ukrainian Defense Industry and the Ministry of Industrial Policy.

History

The Company has been involved for 60 years in the design of engines to power aircraft and helicopters of various types, and also designs drives and special equipment for industrial applications. Three notable designers have led the development during this time: * 1945–1968: Oleksandr Heorhiiovych Ivchenko ( uk, Олександр Георгійович Івченко) (Aleksandr Georgevich Ivchenko) * 1968–1989: Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Lotaryev ( uk, Володимир Олексійович Лотарєв) (Vladimir Aleksevich Lotarev) * 1989-2010: Fedir Mykhailovych Muravchenko ( uk, Федір Михайлович Муравченко) * 2010-:

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( uk, Ігор Федорович Кравченко) Initially General Oleksandr Ivchenko designed piston engines. These engines were denoted AI. Work on their first turbine engine, the TS-12, began in 1953. Since the beginning of the 1960s the company have been developing bypass gas turbine engines. Under the direction of Volodymyr Lotarev, the organization developed the first operational Soviet high-bypass turbofans, the Lotarev D-36 in 1971. This organization is now known as Ivchenko-Progress ZMKB and is based in Ukraine. Their engines are being operated successfully by numerous airlines around the world, including

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, Antonov Airlines,

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, and Polet. In January 2015, Diamond Aircraft of Austria announced the first flight of the

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-JP7 powered by a 465 hp AI-450S turboprop engine developed by Ukraine's Motor Sich JSC and Ivchenko-Progress. Turkish strategic drone Akinci is powered by these engines and flies up to 40,000 feet.

Production

True to the Soviet tradition, design is kept separate from production. Many of the bureau's designs were or are produced at

, located at

Zaporizhzhia International Airport Zaporizhzhia International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт "Запоріжжя") is the international airport that serves Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, one of three airfields around the city. The aircraft engine factory Motor Sich ...

Related real estates

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

* Sanatorium "Slavutych" in Andriivka (Mykhailivka rural municipality, Vilnyansk Raion) * Beach resort "Perl" near

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Products

Turbofans

Ivchenko AI-25 The Ivchenko AI-25 is a family of military and civilian twin-shaft medium bypass turbofan engines developed by Ivchenko OKB of the Soviet Union. It was the first bypass engine ever used on short haul aircraft in the USSR. The engine is still p ...

Lotarev DV-2 The Lotarev DV-2 (or PSLM DV-2, DV: Dnepr-Váh)MOT Site:Letecká Atlantída (03/2013)Letecká Atlantída II (04/2013) Letecká Atlantída IV (06/2013) Letecká Atlantída V (07-08/2013) is a two-spool turbofan engine manufactured in Považská ...

* Progress AI-22 * Progress AI-222 * Ivchenko-Progress AI-322 * MS-400

High-bypass turbofans

* Lotarev / Progress D-18T *

Lotarev D-36 The Ivchenko Progress D-36 (also known as Lotarev D-36) is a three-shaft high bypass ratio turbofan currently produced by the Ukrainian Motor Sich company.

Progress D-436 The Progress D-436 is a Turbofan#Three-spool, three-shaft high by-pass turbofan, turbofan engine developed by the Ukrainian company Ivchenko-Progress, and manufactured by Motor Sich in Ukraine. It was initially developed to meet the requirements ...

Propfans

Progress D-27 The Progress D-27 is a three-shaft propfan engine developed by Ivchenko Progress. The gas generator was designed using experience from the Lotarev D-36 turbofan. The D-27 engine was designed to power more-efficient passenger aircraft such as the ...

Progress D-236 Progress is the movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state. In the context of progressivism, it refers to the proposition that advancements in technology, science, and social organization have resulted, and by extension wi ...

Turboprops

Ivchenko AI-20 The Ivchenko AI-20 is a Soviet turboprop engine developed by the Ivchenko design bureau in the 1950s. It has been built in large numbers, serving as the powerplant for both the Antonov An-12 transport and the Ilyushin Il-18 airliner. Design and ...

Ivchenko AI-24 The Ivchenko AI-24 turboprop aircraft engine was designed and developed in the late-1950s by the Ivchenko design bureau and manufactured thereafter by Motor Sich. It was designed to power Antonov's successful An-24, An-26 and An-30 aircraft se ...

* Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S / S2 * MS-14 * MS-500

Turboshafts

* Lotarev D-136 / Ivchenko AI-136 *

MS-500V The MS-500V is a Ukrainian family of military and civilian turboshaft engines developed by Motor Sich. The new engine is intended for helicopters with a takeoff weight up to 6 tonnes. Its certification is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011, ...

Turbojets

* Ivchenko AI-7

Reciprocating engines

* Ivchenko AI-4 * Ivchenko AI-10 *

Ivchenko AI-14 The Ivchenko AI-14 is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial piston engine designed in the Soviet Union to power aircraft. A variant known as the M462 was produced under license by Avia. Variants ;AI-14: ;AI-14R:Underwent state trials in Decembe ...

Ivchenko AI-26 The Ivchenko AI-26 is a seven-cylinder air-cooled radial engine used in early Soviet helicopters and later used in light utility aircraft. Design and development The AI-26 engine was designed by A.G Ivchenko in 1945 with the early designation M ...

References

External links

Ivchenko-Progress homepage
* https://web.archive.org/web/20101206002205/http://www.zmkb.com/ * http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Aircraft-Component-Manufacturers/Ivchenko-Progress-ZMKB-Ukraine.html Ivchenko Progress ZMKB at janes.com {{Authority control Companies based in Zaporizhzhia Defence companies of Ukraine Ukroboronprom Gas turbine manufacturers Science and technology in Zaporizhzhia Industrial design firms Design companies of Ukraine Design bureaus Aircraft engine manufacturers of Ukraine Ukrainian brands