Mikhail Gurevich
Soviet aircraft designer
Died when: 83 years 305 days (1006 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (Russian: ?????´? ??´??????? ????´???) (12 January 1893 [O.S. 31 December 1892] – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan.
The bureau 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 bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported.
The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.
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