Arkady Dmitrievich Shvetsov () (January 1892,

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, today's

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- 19 March 1953,

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) was a

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aircraft engine designer whose OKB was founded in Perm, USSR, in 1934, to produce the

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-derived

Shvetsov M-25 The Shvetsov M-25 was an aircraft radial engine produced in the Soviet Union (USSR) in the 1930s and 1940s, a licensed production variant of the Wright R-1820-F3. Design and development The first M-25s were produced from kits imported from the ...

engine. Under Shvetsov, his OKB became the primary provider of radial piston engines for Soviet aircraft industry ( Mikulin's and

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's OKB were assigned to creation of in-line engines). After his death in 1953, the OKB was taken over by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shvetsov, Arkady 1892 births 1953 deaths Russian aerospace engineers Heroes of Socialist Labour Soviet aerospace engineers People from Perm, Russia Soviet inventors