Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev
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Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev , 1909–1944, was a Soviet aircraft designer, general-major of the aviation engineering service. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1931.

Yermolaev was a leading engineer in development of the Bartini "Stal-7
Bartini Stal-7
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" aircraft. Yermolayev became the chief of OKB
OKB
OKB is a transliteration of the Russian acronym for "Опытное конструкторское бюро" - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau...

-240 in 1939, after Bartini was arrested and interned in a Siberian Gulag
Gulag
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...

; he led the development and production of Stal-7 based long range bomber DB-240/Yer-2/Yer-4 and its variants with Charomskii ACh-30 diesel engines.

Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhoid infection.

See also

  • Yermolaev Design Bureau
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