In 1941 evacuated to Zavodoukovsk was the Design bureau of the Voronezh aviation plant headed by the aviation constructor Alexander Moskalev. Over a very short period the evacuated plant was put into operation, and started manufacturing noiseless planes designed for reconnoiter, and some other kind of planes.
The most impressive achievement of the plant was design and production of the first reactive plane, the fighter aircraft BI-1. Test flies were carried out in the Koltsovo airport near Sverdlovsk. During one of the test flies the plane reached an unprecedented speed of 800 km/hour. But due to the aerodynamic characteristics of the plane not experienced before, it crashed, and the legendary test pilot Georgi Bakhchivandzhi got perished. Further tests were suspended, and fuselages manufactured in Zavodoukovsk were destroyed. The name of the talented aircraft designer, who changed not only local but the world aviation, came to oblivion for many years. That was possible to a large extent due to the complicated relations within the state power bodies responsible for aircraft building.
In 1945 the Design bureau was moved to Leningrad, where some engineers from Zavodoukovsk were invited by Moskalev. The production equipment left in Zavodoukovsk made a foundation for the future agricultural engineering plant in Tyumen.
Thus, the evacuation period was a serious impetus for industrial development and growth of Zavodoukovsk. The contacts of the Zavodoukovsk residents with the best representatives of the technollgical intelligentsia left a deep trace in their lives.
In Leningrad Moskalev was actively engaged in teaching and research activities. He considered his work in Zavodoukovsk the most fruitful period in his life. It was in Zavodoukovsk that he invented an arrow-type wing – the element widely used in modern reactive aviation.
In 1941 evacuated to Zavodoukovsk was the Design bureau of the Voronezh aviation plant headed by the aviation constructor Alexander Moskalev. Over a very short period the evacuated plant was put into operation, and started manufacturing noiseless planes designed for reconnoiter, and some other kind of planes.
The most impressive achievement of the plant was design and production of the first reactive plane, the fighter aircraft BI-1. Test flies were carried out in the Koltsovo airport near Sverdlovsk. During one of the test flies the plane reached an unprecedented speed of 800 km/hour. But due to the aerodynamic characteristics of the plane not experienced before, it crashed, and the legendary test pilot Georgi Bakhchivandzhi got perished. Further tests were suspended, and fuselages manufactured in Zavodoukovsk were destroyed. The name of the talented aircraft designer, who changed not only local but the world aviation, came to oblivion for many years. That was possible to a large extent due to the complicated relations within the state power bodies responsible for aircraft building.
In 1945 the Design bureau was moved to Leningrad, where some engineers from Zavodoukovsk were invited by Moskalev. The production equipment left in Zavodoukovsk made a foundation for the future agricultural engineering plant in Tyumen.
Thus, the evacuation period was a serious impetus for industrial development and growth of Zavodoukovsk. The contacts of the Zavodoukovsk residents with the best representatives of the technollgical intelligentsia left a deep trace in their lives.
In Leningrad Moskalev was actively engaged in teaching and research activities. He considered his work in Zavodoukovsk the most fruitful period in his life. It was in Zavodoukovsk that he invented an arrow-type wing – the element widely used in modern reactive aviation.
