Polikarpov

Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and became part of Polikarpov.

Polikarpov Design Bureau
IndustryAerospace
FoundedMoscow, Russia
Defunct30 July 1944 (1944-07-30)
FateAbsorbed into Lavochkin
Successor
Key people
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
ProductsAircraft

After the death of Polikarpov on 30 July 1944 at the age of 52, his OKB was absorbed into Lavochkin, but with some of its engineers going to Mikoyan-Gurevich and its production facilities going to Sukhoi. For a long time the Polikarpov OKB headquarters were located at Aircraft plant #1 (formerly Dux Factory) in Moscow, where its purpose-built building still stands.

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