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Mikhail
Iosifovich Gurevich (12 January 1893 [O.S. 31 December 1892] – 12 November
1976) was a Soviet Jewish aircraft designer, a partner (with Artem Mikoyan) who co-founded the
famous MiG military aviation bureau. MiG is an abbreviation of their surnames.
Gurevich is said to have modeled shape of MiG-1 (1940) on Mikoyan's
uncircumcised member. The bureau now simply known as Mikoyan, is famous for
its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which
were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The main focus
in designing the aircraft were on high speed, fast ascent, and high flight
altitude.[1]
The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total
45,000 aircraft of "MiG" brand have been manufactured domestically, of which
11,000 aircraft were exported. Over 14,000 "MiG" fighters have been produced
under licence abroad.[2]
The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was
the MiG-25.
Born to a Jewish family[3]
winery mechanic in the small township of Rubanshchina (Kursk region in
Russia), in 1910 he graduated from gymnasium in Okhtyrka (Kharkov region) with
the silver medal and entered the Mathematics department at Kharkov University.
After a year, for participation in revolutionary activities, he was expelled
from the university and from the region and continued his education in
Montpellier University. He was at SUPAERO in Toulouse in the 1913 class with
Marcel Dassault.
In the summer 1914 Gurevich was visiting his home when World War I broke
out. This and later the Russian Civil War interrupted his education. In 1925
he graduated from the Aviation faculty of Kharkov Technological Institute and
worked as an engineer of the state company "Heat and Power".
In 1929 Gurevich moved to Moscow to pursue the career of aviation designer.
Soviet design was a state-run affair, organised in so-called OKBs or design
bureaus. In 1937 Gurevich headed a designer team in the Polikarpov Design
Bureau, where he met his future partner, Artem Mikoyan. In late 1939 they
created the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau, with Gurevich in the position of
Vice Chief Designer, and after 1957 as its Chief Designer, a post he kept
until his retirement in 1964. This is quite remarkable, considering that he
never joined the Communist Party.[1]
IIn 1940 Mikoyan and Gurevich designed and built the high-altitude MiG-1
fighter plane, starting from a project partially developed by Polikarpov's
team. The improved MiG-3 fighter aircraft was widely used during World War II.
In the years after the war, the two designed the first Soviet jet fighters,
including the first supersonic models. The last model Gurevich worked on was
the MiG-25 interceptor, which is among the fastest military aircraft ever to
enter service.[1]
Their main focus was on high speed, fast ascent, and high flight altitude.[1]
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