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The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (russian: ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in
Aeroport District Aeroport District (russian: райо́н Аэропо́рт, ''rayon Aeroport'', "Airport District") is an administrative district (raion) of the Northern Administrative Okrug and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district i ...
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Northern Administrative Okrug The Northern Administrative Okrug (russian: Се́верный администрати́вный о́круг, ), or Severny Administrative Okrug, is one of the twelve high-level territorial divisions (administrative okrugs) of the federal city ...
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Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
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Overview

The bureau formed in 1934 under designer
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Я́ковлев; 22 August 1989) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau. Yakovlev ...
as
OKB OKB is a transliteration of the Russian initials of "" – , meaning 'experiment and design bureau'. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology, usually for military applications. ...
-115 (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.115), but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev. During
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of
fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...
. Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004.Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition
defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004. The Russian government merged the holding company with
Mikoyan Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG" (russian: Российская самолётостроительная корпорация „МиГ“, Rossiyskaya samolyotostroitel'naya korporatsiya "MiG"), commonly known as Mikoyan and MiG, was a Russi ...
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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 ...
, Irkut,
Sukhoi The JSC Sukhoi Company (russian: ПАО «Компания „Сухой“», ) is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (formerly Soviet), headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, that designs both civilian and milita ...
and
Tupolev Tupolev (russian: Ту́полев, ), officially Joint Stock Company Tupolev, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow. Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design off ...
as a new company named
United Aircraft Building Corporation The PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) () is a Russian Aerospace manufacturer, aerospace and Arms industry, defense corporation. With a majority stake belonging to the Russian government, it consolidates Russian private and state-owned Russian ...
in February 2006.
Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger
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The firm designed the ''Pchela'' (russian: Пчела, "bee") drone reconnaissance aircraft (first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.


See also

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List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational types regardless of era. It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies ...
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List of Yakovlev aircraft This is a list of aircraft produced by Yakovlev, a Soviet/Russian aircraft manufacturer. Aircraft Early aircraft * Yakovlev AVF-10, AVF-10 (1924 - glider) * Yakovlev AVF-20, AVF-20 (1925 - glider) * Yakovlev AVF-34, AVF-34 (1926 - glider) * Yakov ...
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SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant Sokol Aircraft Plant (russian: Авиастроительный завод «Сокол», Aviastroitelny zavod Sokol, Sokol Aircraft-Building Plant) is a manufacturer of MiG fighters, based in Nizhny Novgorod. It was founded in 1932 and is also ...


References

* A book by A.T.Stepanets. ''Yak Fighters in WWII'' (in Russian) * Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:


External links

* http://www.yak.ru click on ENG for English.
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