biography
| name: |
Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[mikoyan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–70)
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| biography:
| Aircraft designer, born in Sanain, N Armenia, the brother of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. He was a metal-worker, and served in the Red Army before graduating from the NE Zhukovsky Air Force Academy (1936). He was best known for the MiG fighter aircraft produced by the design bureau he headed with Gurevich, including the MiG-1 (1940), and the MiG-3 (1941), both single-engine fighters used in World War 2, and the MiG-21 (1967) single-turbojet Mach 2 fighter interceptor, on which design the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft, the Tu-144, was based. |
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