Amik Avetovich Yengibaryan (1901-1948) - Soviet aircraft designer, specialist in electrical equipment.
| Amik Avetovich Yengibaryan | |
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| Date of Birth | 1901 |
| Date of death | 1948 |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Occupation | aircraft designer |
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Biography
He graduated from the Erivan Classical Gymnasium (1917) and MVTU named after N.E. Bauman (1923).
Since 1923, he worked at TsAGI , a designer of aircraft electrical equipment. In the early 1930s, on a business trip to Germany, England and the United States.
In 1937, the head of the 6th department of the First Main Directorate of the NKOP.
He was arrested on November 22, 1937 on charges of belonging to the “wrecking organization” operating in TsAGI, led by A. N. Tupolev . For participation in an anti-Soviet organization and "preparing a sabotage act with the crew of an airplane of Levanevsky" he was sentenced to 10 years in prison with a loss of rights for 5 years and confiscation of property. He worked in the "Tupolev sharashka".
By a resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of May 25, 1940, at the request of the NKVD, the USSR amnestied, prematurely released from prison with the removal of the loss of rights and criminal record.
From February 1941, he worked at factory No. 266. From November 19 of the same year, the department head, chief designer.
Since 1945, the first director and chief designer of the pilot plant No. 25 NKAP.
He participated in the creation of the first models of aircraft designed by A.N. Tupolev (ANT-4, ANT-14, ANT-26, ANT-28, TB-5, Tu-103).
In 1948 he died of a heart attack.
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the third degree (1947) - for the development of a new design of aviation weapons
- CEC Certificate of Merit
- Order of the Badge of Honor - for the development of equipment for the 8-motor campaign-passenger aircraft ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky"
- Order of the Red Star (1943).
Sources
- Sarkisyan A.E. Armenian-military scientists, designers, manufacturers and testers of the 20th century. Er., 2005, p. 208-214
- Chertok Boris Evseevich. MISSILES AND PEOPLE. Fili - Fingerprints - Turatam
- M. B. Saukke "Unknown Tupolev."
- Yengibaryan Amik Avetovich
- http://blogs.7iskusstv.com/?p=21869
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205557/http://www.vniia.ru/about/doc/vniia_60.pdf
- The Order