Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev | |
Native Name: | Владимир Григорьевич Ермолаев |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1909 |
Death Date: | 31 December 1944 (aged 35) |
Nationality: | Soviet |
Occupation: | aircraft designer |
Awards: | Order of Suvorov |
Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev (; 29 August 1909 31 December 1944) was a Soviet aircraft designer, general-major of the aviation engineering service. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1931.[1]
Yermolaev was a leading engineer in development of the Bartini "Stal-7" aircraft. Yermolayev became the chief of OKB-240 in 1939, after Bartini was arrested and interned in a Siberian Gulag; he led the development and production of Stal-7–based long-range bomber DB-240/Yer-2/Yer-4 and its variants with Charomskiy ACh-30 diesel engines.
Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhoid infection.