Aleksandr Mikulin
Aircraft jet engine designer
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin (Russian: Александр Александрович Микулин; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB.[1] His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.[2]
Born
February 14, 1895
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin
February 14, 1895
DiedMay 13, 1985 (aged 90)
InstitutionsMikulin OKB
ProjectsTsar Tank
Aleksandr Mikulin | |
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| Born | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin February 14, 1895 |
| Died | May 13, 1985 (aged 90) |
| Engineering career | |
| Institutions | Mikulin OKB |
| Projects | Tsar Tank |
| Significant design | Mikulin AM-34 |
Engines
- M-17 – BMW VI built under licence
- AM-34
- AM-35 – Super charged inline 895-1007kw[3]
- AM-37 – improved AM-35; only produced in small numbers as it was too unreliable
- AM-38 – low-altitude engine developed from the AM-35A
- AM-39 – higher power version of the AM-35A
- AM-41 – used on the Gudkov Gu-1
- AM-42 – higher power version of the AM-38F
- AM-43 – high-altitude engine, used on Tupolev Tu-1 and Ilyushin Il-16
- AM-44 – turbo-supercharged engine, used on Tupolev Tu-2DB
- AM-45
- AM-46
- AM-47 – used on the Ilyushin Il-20
- AM-2
- AM-3/RD-3
- AM-5 – renamed Tumansky RD-9 after Sergey Tumansky replaced Aleksandr Mikulin
Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1940)
- Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1942)
- Two Stalin Prizes second degree (1943, 1946)
- Orders and medals
