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Yakovlev

Russian aerospace company


Russian aerospace company

FieldValue
nameYakovlev Design Bureau
former_namesOKB-115
logoYakovlev_logo.png
typeDivision
foundation
fatemerged into United Aircraft Corporation
founderAlexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
location_cityMoscow
location_countryRussia
industry
productscivil and military aeroplanes
parentYakovlev Corporation
homepage
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the Russian aircraft manufacturer

The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (; ) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is a subsidiary of Yakovlev Corporation.

Overview

The bureau formed in 1934 under aircraft designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.115), but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev.

During World War II Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of fighter aircraft.

Irkut acquired Yakovlev in April 2004. The Russian government merged the holding company with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi and Tupolev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation in February 2006." Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.

The firm designed the Pchela (, "bee") drone reconnaissance aircraft (first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.

In August 2023, Irkut Corporation rebranded itself as Yakovlev. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 was redesignated as the SJ-100, and the Irkut MC-21 also adopted the Yakovlev name.

; Sanctions The company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.

References

  • A book by A.T.Stepanets. Yak Fighters in WWII (in Russian)
  • Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:

References

  1. [http://www.yak.ru/ENG/FIRM/today0.php A.S.Yakovlev Design Bureau - General Data]
  2. [http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/investors/ UAC - General information]
  3. [http://www.yak.ru/ENG/ Home page]. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" [http://www.yak.ru/ Address in Russian]: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68"
  4. [http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/37645/russia%E2%80%99s-irkut-buys-yakovlev-bureau-%28apr.-23%29.html Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-11-27 . defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004.)
  5. (16 August 2023). "Yakovlev name formally approved as Irkut's new corporate identity". Flight Global.
  6. (23 August 2023). "Russian entities from the military-industrial, financial and nuclear sectors Country: Russia".
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