Leonid Selyakov

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Leonid Leonidovich Selyakov (Russian: Леонид Леонидович Селяков; 22 April 1916 – 16 October 2002) was a Soviet aircraft designer, a laureate of the Lenin Prize (1957) and the USSR State Prize (1972). Selyakov was born on 22 April 1916 in Kiev into the family of a land surveying engineer. After finishing seven years of school in 1930, he began working in his father’s expedition and subsequently at the Kiev Central Aviation Repair Base of Dobrolyot. From 1932 to 1941, he worked at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in the brigade of Vladimir Petlyakov. He participated in the development of the ANT-20 Maxim Gorky and the and ANT-42 (TB-7) aircraft. In 1938, Selyakov became head of the technical design group and deputy head of the fuselage brigade at OKB-16, which was created after the arrest of Andrei Tupolev on the basis of his design bureau. During the Great Patriotic War, he first worked at Plant No. 22 and, from 1943, served as deputy chief designer at OKB-22 under Vladimir Myasishchev, until the bureau was closed in January 1946. After the bureau’s evacuation to Kazan in 1942, Selyakov’s brigade worked on the installation of a heavy machine gun on the Pe-2. In 1946 he was transferred to OKB-115 under Alexander Yakovlev, where he worked until 1951. He led the design of the jet fighters Yak-19, Yak-25 and the experimental Yak-1000.