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September 28, 1902, Yefremov – † October 14, 1978, Moscow
After his graduation from Moscow State Technical University, Vladimir Myasishchev made his debuts in 1926 at the central institute for aerodynamics (TsAGI). He worked for the Tupolev Design Bureau and took part in constructing airplanes, such as Tupolev TB-1, TB-3, and Tupolev ANT-20 Maxime Gorky.
Myasishchev directed the conception of the Ant-41 and participated in the adaptation of the DC-3 for its construction by the soviets.
Imprisoned by Staline from 1938 to 1940, he was forced to work under the guidance of Vladimir Petlyakov on the Pe-2 bomber. After his release, he started studies on the DVB-102 long range bomber at the same KB-102 detainee design bureau.
After Petliakov's death in 1943, he became the main constructor of plant Nr.22.
Professor at the Moscow Aeronautics Institute (MAI) after the war, he continued to study the feasibility of a strategic heavy bomber in collaboration with the TsAGI, resulting in the production of the famous M-4 and 3M 'Bison' from 1953 to 1981.
From the fifties, Myassichtchev also participated in several studies for manned and unmanned space vehicles like the M-40 Buran rocketplane. A lot of energy was spent for many years to find solutions to the high temperatures those high speed vehicles had to sustain.
A four-engine delta wing supersonic bomber, the M-50, reached Mach 1.4 in 1960 but never attained service.
The same year, Myassichtchev became director of TsAGI, after the OKB-23 bureau was passed to Chelomey to build the missiles Khrustchev was now requesting.
In 1978, the M-17 Mystic-A/Stratosfera made its first flight, as a Single-seat high-altitude research aircraft, followed by the Mystic-B/Geofysika twin-jet version.
Myasishchev was awarded three Orders of Lenin, in 1945, 1957, 1962, the Order of Suvorov II degree in 1944 and the Order of the October Revolution in 1971.
Vladimir Myassichtchev died in Moscow on October 14, 1978.
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