Sergey Tumansky
Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft engine designer, scientist (1901-1973)
Sergei Konstantinovich Tumansky (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Туманский; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1901 – 9 September 1973) was a designer of Soviet aircraft engines and the chief designer in the Tumansky Design Bureau, OKB-300. He worked in TsIAM (1931–38 and in 1940), and at the aircraft-engine plant N 29, in Zaporozhye.
He also worked as a substitute main designer in OKB A.A. Mikulin beginning in 1943.
Biography
Sergei Tumansky was born in Minsk, the Russian Empire, on May 21, 1901 and died, at age 73, in Moscow, the Soviet Union, on September 9, 1973. He studied at the Vladimir school until joining the Red Army in 1918 where he took part in air operations on both fronts. In 1919 Sergey graduated from radio engineering school and served as a technician at the Petrogradskaya Military Technical School starting in 1921. 1927 saw Tumansky enter the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy where he worked with other engineers (Ponomarev, Fedorov, & Zenichkin) to develop the Tufsen aircraft engine, for which they were awarded the first place price for creativity in design. In 1931 he took a position as senior engineer at the Baranov Central Institute of Aviation Motor Development, spending his time there engaged in aircraft engine construction and research, until being appointed as the chief designer at Aircraft Plant #29 in Zaporozhye in 1938, where the Tumansky M-87 engine was developed under his supervision. In 1939 this plant developed the Tumansky M-88 used on the Ilyushin Il-4 bomber. Aleksandr Mikulin invited Tumansky to work at Plant #300 in 1943 as Deputy Chief Designer, which he worked at for the next 30 years, developing the multiple piston and jet engines, including the Tumansky R-11 which powered the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21.
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