Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev

Soviet aircraft designer

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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born March 19 [April 1, New Style], 1906, Moscow, Russia—died August 22, 1989, Moscow, Russia) was an aircraft designer noted for his series of Yak aircraft, most of them fighters used by the Soviet Union in World War II. After graduation from the Air Force Engineering Academy in 1931, Yakovlev immediately began to design aircraft, both piston- and jet-engined. Just before World War II he designed the Yak-1 fighter. His first jet...

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