List of Russian aerospace engineers explained
This list of Russian aerospace engineers includes the designers of aircraft, rocketry and spacecraft, and developers of auxiliary aerospace technologies from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
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Alphabetical list
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- Georgy Babakin, designer of the first soft landing space vehicle Luna 9
- Vladimir Barmin, designer of the world's first rocket launch complex (Baikonur spaceport)
- Robert Bartini, developer of ekranoplans and VTOL amphibious aircraft, physicist, tutor to many other aerospace designers
- Alexander Bereznyak, designer of the first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1
- Georgy Beriev, designer of the Be-series amphibious aircraft
- Georgy Bothezat, inventor of the quadrotor helicopter, The Flying Octopus
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- Nikolay Kamov, designer of the Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters
- Mstislav Keldysh, developer of the first satellite (Sputnik) and Keldysh bomber
- Alexander Kemurdzhian, inventor of the first space exploration rover Lunokhod
- Kerim Kerimov, the secret figure behind the Soviet space program
- Nikolai Kibalchich, pioneer of rocketry; the International Astronomical Union honoured him by naming a crater on the moon Kibal'chich
- Sergei Korolyov, "the Father of the Soviet space program", inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite (Sputnik), supervisor of the first human spaceflight
- Gleb Kotelnikov, inventor of the knapsack parachute and drogue parachute
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- Guy Severin, designer of the first extra-vehicular activity supporting system
- Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket
- Igor Sikorsky, inventor of airliner and strategic bomber (Ilya Muromets), father of modern helicopter, designer of the Sikorsky-series helicopters
- Mikhail Simonov, chief designer of the Su-27 fighter jet, as well as Su-24 and Su-25 military aircraft
- Boris Stechkin, co-developer of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and Lebedenko's Tsar Tank, designer of many heat and aircraft engines
- Pavel Sukhoi, designer of the Su-series fighter aircraft
- Vladimir Syromyatnikov, designer of the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System
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