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Mikhail Gurevich
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Soviet aircraft designer (1893–1976)
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Mikhail Gurevich (1892–1976) was a Russian inventor, aircraft pilot, and engineer. Born in Rubanshchina, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Soviet Union. He was educated at the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, University of Montpellier, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, and National University of Kharkiv. Gurevich worked in the aircraft industry as a design engineer and was employed by the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG. He participated in World War I on the Eastern Front.
He received the Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the Red Star, and Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Gurevich was of Jewish ethnicity and spoke Russian. His relative was Anatoly Andriyashev. He died in Saint Petersburg and was buried in Serafimovskoe Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,548x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,605x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies
· 2013 · cited 10,577x
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Key facts
- Born
- 12 January [ O.S. 31 December 1892 ] 1893, Rubanshchina, Kursk Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 12 November 1976 (1976-11-12) (aged 83), Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Discipline
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Employer
- Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau
- Significant design
- MiG-1 , MiG-3 , MiG-15 , MiG-17 , MiG-19 , MiG-21 , MiG-23 , MiG-25
- Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labor
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Encyclopedic overview
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (Russian: Михаи́л Ио́сифович Гуре́вич) (12 January 1893 [O.S. 31 December 1892] – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.
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