Nikolai Polikarpov

✶June 9, 1892

†July 30, 1944

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the revolutionary I-16 monoplane fighter.

In 1939 he lost his design bureau to Mikoyan and Gurevich; in 1943 he was appointed professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, but he died only a year later in July 1944.

Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1892-1944)

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