Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev (; 29 August 1909 31 December 1944) was a
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
aircraft designer, general-major of the aviation engineering service. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1931.
Yermolaev was a leading engineer in development of the
Bartini "
Stal-7" aircraft. Yermolayev became the chief of
OKB-240 in 1939, after Bartini was arrested and interned in a
Siberian Gulag
The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...
; he led the development and production of Stal-7–based long-range bomber DB-240/Yer-2/Yer-4 and its variants with Charomskiy ACh-30 diesel engines.
Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhoid infection.
Aircraft
*
Yermolaev Yer-2
See also
*
Yermolaev Design Bureau
References
1909 births
1944 deaths
Russian aerospace engineers
Soviet engineers
20th-century Russian engineers
Deaths from typhoid fever
{{USSR-engineer-stub