Artem Mikoyan

Engineer

Birthday August 5, 1905

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Russia

DEATH DATE Dec 9, 1970 (65)

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About

Aircraft engineer who designed many of the well-known Soviet MIG airplanes. He was twice awards the Hero of Socialist Labor, the highest civilian honor in the Soviet Union.

Before Fame

He was a factory worker in Rostov, and then in Moscow.

Trivia

His designs came partly from ingenuity and party from trickery, like reverse-engineering a British Rolls-Royce airplane engine.

Family Life

His brother was Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a high-ranking Soviet government official.

Associated With

Dmitri Shostakovich was also among the few Soviet civilians to have received the Hero of Socialism Labor awards.