About Vladimir Yermolaev
Lived 1909 – 1944 (aged 35). Vladimir Yermolaev was a Russian military flight engineer and engineer.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev (; 29 August 1909 31 December 1944) was a Soviet aircraft designer, general-major of the aviation engineering service. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1931.
Yermolaev was a leading engineer in development of the Bartini "Stal-7" aircraft. Yermolayev became the chief of OKB-240 in 1939, after Bartini was arrested and interned in a Siberian Gulag; he led the development and production of Stal-7–based long-range bomber DB-240/Yer-2/Yer-4 and its variants with Charomskiy ACh-30 diesel engines.
Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhoid infection.
Aircraft Yermolaev Yer-2
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Who was Vladimir Yermolaev?
Soviet aerospace engineer (1909-1944)
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Vladimir Yermolaev was born on 29 August 1909.
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Vladimir Yermolaev died on 31 December 1944.
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Vladimir Yermolaev was a military flight engineer and engineer.
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Vladimir Yermolaev was Russian.
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