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Alexander IvchenkoSoviet aircraft designer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
Date of Birth: 23.11.1903
Country:  Rwanda |
Content:
- Biography of Alexander Ivchenko
- Childhood
- Work Activity
- Design Work
- Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko passed away on July 1, 1968.
- Awards and Prizes
- Legacy
Biography of Alexander Ivchenko
Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko was a Soviet aircraft designer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, creator of high-resource aviation turboprop engines, founder of the Zaporozhye Design Bureau "Progress", Doctor of Technical Sciences, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and Chief Designer of the Research and Design Bureau.
Childhood
Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko, a renowned Soviet scientist and creator of high-resource aviation turboprop engines, was born on November 23, 1903, in the city of Bolshoi Tokmak, Zaporozhye region (formerly Taurida Governorate), in a working-class family. He went to school there, and it was where he spent his childhood and youth. Alexander Georgievich's parents had a large family - eleven children. His father, Georgy Efimovich, worked as a foundry worker at the "Fuks and Kleiner" plant (later renamed to "Krasny Progress"). His mother, Elizaveta Yakovlevna, dedicated her entire life to the family and household.
Work Activity
Alexander Georgievich started his work at the age of 17 as an apprentice in a foundry, and later worked as a foundry worker at the Kirov plant in the city of Bolshoi Tokmak. He received his higher technical education at the Kharkov Mechanical and Machine-Building Institute, graduating from the "Internal Combustion Engines" faculty in 1935.
After graduating from the institute, Ivchenko worked as an engineer assembling and testing aircraft engines at the Baranov Plant No. 29 in Zaporozhye (now Motor Sich JSC). He was later transferred to the chief designer's department, where he was involved in the design and improvement of aviation piston engines, initially as a regular designer and later as the head of a design team.
Design Work
In 1938, Alexander Georgievich was appointed the leading designer for the M-89 engine with a power of 1500 hp. The engine was installed on the aircraft of the leading designers Sukhoi (Su-2) and Petlyakov (Pe-2A). After the M-89 engine entered serial production, Alexander Georgievich was appointed deputy chief of the serial design bureau and continued to work on improving this engine in serial production. After the plant was evacuated to Siberia (Omsk), Alexander Georgievich was appointed chief of the serial design bureau of Plant No. 29 and later became the deputy chief designer.
Significant work was done by Alexander Georgievich on the introduction of the ASH-82FN engine into serial production, which was installed on Lavochkin's La-5 aircraft and Tupolev's Tu-2 bombers. On May 5, 1945, by order of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR, Design Bureau No. 478 was established (initially named OKB "Progress"). Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko was appointed the chief designer of the OKB, and the core of the team consisted of specialists from the Omsk plant who worked in Zaporozhye before the evacuation. In 1946, Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko became the chief designer of Plant No. 478, and in 1963, the Chief Designer of the State Union Research and Design Bureau No. 478.
Domestic turboprop aircraft with AI-20, AI-24 engines, and turbojet aircraft with the AI-25 engine are operated in many countries around the world.
Alexander Georgievich was a prominent scientist-designer in the field of aviation engine building, the creator of a range of original designs of domestic helicopter and aircraft engines. He served as a member of the Scientific and Technical Council under the State Committee for Aviation Technology under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Main Department of the Civil Air Fleet, and a member of the Coordination Committee for Aviation Technology. He participated in the review of state projects as a member of the permanent commission of the State Scientific and Technical Committee of the Ukrainian SSR on turbine power plants.
Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko passed away on July 1, 1968.
Scientific ActivityFor his research work on the creation of high-resource aviation engines, Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences by the Scientific Council of the Central Institute of Aviation Motors in November 1962. In June 1964, he became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Awards and Prizes
For his successful activities in the field of creating new aviation equipment, Ivchenko was awarded high government awards:
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944)
- Order of the Red Star (1945)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1948)
- State Prize of the USSR (1948)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1957)
- Lenin Prize (1960)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1963)
- Order of Lenin (1966)
Legacy
In 1994, by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the design bureau "Progress" was named after Academician A.G. Ivchenko, and since 1997, new engines developed by the design bureau have been designated "AI".
At the initiative of the management of "Ivchenko-Progress", the Association of Aviation Engine Building (Moscow) declared 2003 the year of Academician Ivchenko.
In 2009, a monument was erected to Alexander Georgievich near the Design Bureau "Progress", and posthumously, by the decision of the Presidium of the Zaporozhye Regional Council, Alexander Ivchenko was awarded the Order "For Merits to Zaporozhye Region" of the 1st degree.
