Alexander Mikulin

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin (; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB. His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.

Engines M-17 – BMW VI built under licence AM-34 AM-35 – Super charged inline 895-1007kw AM-37 – improved AM-35; only produced in small numbers as it was too unreliable AM-38 – low-altitude engine developed from the AM-35A AM-39 – higher power version of the AM-35A AM-41 – used on the Gudkov Gu-1 AM-42 – higher power version of the AM-38F AM-43 – high-altitude engine, used on Tupolev Tu-1 and Ilyushin Il-16 AM-44 – turbo-supercharged engine, used on Tupolev Tu-2DB AM-45 AM-46 AM-47 – used on the Ilyushin Il-20 AM-2 AM-3/RD-3 AM-5 – renamed Tumansky RD-9 after Sergey Tumansky replaced Aleksandr Mikulin

Awards Hero of Socialist Labour (1940) Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1942) Two Stalin Prizes second degree (1943, 1946) Orders and medals