V. M. Myasishchev Experimental Design Bureau (Экспери­мен­тальный Машин­ост­роительный Завод им. В. М. Мясищева) or OKB-23, founded in 1951 by Vladimir Myasishchev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev was a Soviet aircraft designer, Major General of Engineering , Hero of Socialist Labor , Doctor of Technical Sciences , Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR ....

) was one of the chief Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 aerospace

Aerospace

Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...

 design bureaus until its dissolution in 1960. Vladimir Myasishchev went on to head TsAGI

TsAGI

TsAGI is a transliteration of the Russian abbreviation for Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т or "Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut", the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute....

. In 1967, Myasishchev left TsAGI and recreated his bureau, which still exists to this day. The bureau prefix was "M." , its workforce is estimated at approx­imately one thousand.

Civil

• M-101 Gzhel/Duet and Duet business aircraft
• M-112 and M-150 cargo-passenger aircraft
• M-500 agricultural aircraft
• Space Adventures C-21
• Space Adventures M-55X

Military

• M-4 "Bison"
  Myasishchev M-4
  The Myasishchev M-4 Molot , USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 37", NATO reporting name 'Bison'.) is a four-engined strategic bomber designed by Vladimir Myasishchev and manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 1950s to provide a bomber capable of attacking targets in North America...
  
  , a strategic bomber
  Strategic bomber
  A strategic bomber is a heavy bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of ordnance onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating an enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, which are used in the battle zone to attack troops and military equipment, strategic bombers are...
  
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• M-18
  Myasishchev M-18
  The Myasishchev M-18 was a design for a Soviet supersonic bomber with a variable-geometry wing.The project was dropped in favour of the Tupolev Tu-160 program. Although the design was the most successful when competing with the Tu-160 and Sukhoi T-4, it was dropped as Tupolev had the most potential...
  
  , supersonic bomber design
• M-50 "Bounder"
  Myasishchev M-50
  -External links:* http://www.aviation.ru/Mya/#50* *...
  
  , supersonic bomber
• M-103 experimental heavy bomber
• Buran program, cockpit
• Cosmopolis XXI
  Cosmopolis XXI
  Cosmopolis XXI is a planned Russian vehicle that is billed as a space tourism vehicle, similar to Mojave Aerospace's Tier One program. Designed and built by the Myasishchev Design Bureau, it would use the M-55X launch aircraft , and the proposed C-21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer...
  
   suborbital craft
• VKA-23, a spaceplane
  Spaceplane
  A spaceplane is a vehicle that operates as an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere, as well as a spacecraft when it is in space. It combines features of an aircraft and a spacecraft, which can be thought of as an aircraft that can endure and maneuver in the vacuum of space or likewise a spacecraft that...
  
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• VM-T 'Atlant'
  Myasishchev VM-T
  |-See also:-Bibliography:*Rendall, David. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide. Harper Collins, Glasgow, 1996. ISBN 0-00-470980-2-External links:* * * * *...
  
  , modified to carry the space shuttle Buran
• M-55 "Mystic"
  Myasishchev M-55
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  , a high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft.

External links

• Official site, in English and Russian.
• globalsecurity.org
• Encyclopædia Astronautix
• Myasishchev history