Lyulka was a USSR aero engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as
NPO Saturn based at
Rybinsk
Rybinsk (, ) is the second-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers, north-north-east of Moscow. Population:
It was previously known as '' ...
. The Lyulka design bureau had its roots in the "
Kharkiv Aviation Institute" (
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...
) where
Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka was working with a team designing the ''ATsN'' (Agregat Tsentralnovo Nadduva - Centralised supercharger) installation on the
Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber. Lyul'ka was responsible for designing the first Soviet gas turbine engines. Preferring to steer away from copying captured German equipment, it succeeded in producing home grown engines.
Engines
References
* Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995”. London, Osprey. 1995.
External links
* http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/
{{Lyulka aeroengines
Aircraft engine manufacturers of the Soviet Union