Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin (; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB. His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.

Engines

* M-17 - BMW VI built under licence * AM-34 * AM-35 - Super charged inline 895-1007kw * AM-37 - improved AM-35; only produced in small numbers as it was too unreliable * AM-38 - low-altitude engine developed from the AM-35A * AM-39 - higher power version of the AM-35A * AM-41 - used on the Gudkov Gu-1 * AM-42 - higher power version of the AM-38F * AM-43 - high-altitude engine, used on Tupolev Tu-1 and Ilyushin Il-16 * AM-44 - turbo-supercharged engine, used on Tupolev Tu-2DB * AM-45 * AM-46 * AM-47 - used on the Ilyushin Il-20 * AM-2 * AM-3/RD-3 * AM-5 - renamed Tumansky RD-9 after Sergey Tumansky replaced Aleksandr Mikulin

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mikulin, Aleksandr Mikulin, Alexander Mikulin, Alexander People from Vladimir, Russia Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motors employees Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mikulin, Alexander Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Recipients of the Stalin Prize Mikulin, Alexander Russian mechanical engineers Mikulin, Alexander Soviet mechanical engineers Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

Engines

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