FAMOUS ARMENIANS Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (Արտյոմ Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան in Armenian; Артё́м Ива́нович Микоя́н in Russian) (August 5, 1905 – December 9, 1970) was an Armenian / Soviet aircraft designer, in partnership with Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich he designed many of the famous MiG military aircraft. Born in Sanahin, Armenia. He completed his basic education and in 1923 took a job as a machine-tool operator in Rostov, Russia before being conscripted into the military. After military service he joined the Zukovsky Air Force Academy, graduating in 1937. His first plane Oktyabrenok Mikoyan created with his mates. He worked with Polikarpov before being named head of a new aircraft design bureau in Moscow in December 1939. Together with Gurevich, Mikoyan formed the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau, to produce a series of fighter aircraft. In the war period, they designed fighters with high flight and technical data, including E-250. In March 1942 the bureau was renamed OKB MiG (Osoboye Konstruktorskoye Büro), ANPK MiG (Aviatsionnyy nauchno-proizvodstvennyy kompleks) and OKO MiG. The MiG-1 was not a very good start, the MiG-3 was misused and the MiG-5, 7 and 8 were effectively research prototypes. Early post-war designs were based on captured German jet fighters and information provided by Britain or the US. The first production model was the stop-gap MiG-9 of 1946. From 1952 Mikoyan also designed missile systems to particularly suit his aircraft. He continued to produce high performance fighters through the 1950s and 1960s. Among Mikoyans inventions are such aircraft as airspace plane built late in 60s; MiG-25 the fastest and the highest flying titanic fighter. After Mikoyans death, the name of the design bureau was changed from Mikoyan-Gurevich to simply Mikoyan. However, the designator remained MiG. After Mikoyans death, the name of the design bureau was changed from Mikoyan-Gurevich to simply Mikoyan. However, the designator remained MiG.
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