Word: mikoyan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work grinding out the tidings of a fuller and happier life for the citizens. Day after day, Pravda and Radio Moscow paint glittering pictures of a land of milk and honey, teeming with TV sets and People's cars. The new day will dawn, says Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, some time...
Goose Feet & Clumsy Bears. Last week, at an All-Union Conference of Trade Operatives in Moscow's Hall of Columns, Consumer Goods Expert Mikoyan. who runs the Internal Trade Ministry, predicted that in three or four years' time the Soviet masses will have twice as much clothing as they have today, eat twice as much fish and meat, cook in four times as many shiny new pots and pans. There will be more sausages for boiling, better meat cutlets, and, for the "little Soviet consumer," a most splendid assortment of "well-wrapped candies: prozrachnaya (fruit drops), gusinye lapki...
More important, a handful of talented Russian aircraft designers-led by Mikoyan, Lavochkin and Yakovlev-rose to the occasion, producing fighters that were rugged and maneuverable, though still second-rate planes by German and U.S. standards. The best ones were derived from Western models. But in tactical air, the defense-conscious Russians took a back seat to no one. One of the best ground attack planes of World War II, the armor-plated Stormovik, came off the drawing board of another Russian, Sergei Iliushin. German Panzer divisions called it "the black death." In one ten-day period, the Stormoviks knocked...
...Mikoyan), single-jet fighter. Speed, 680 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 7-8,000 ft. a min.; ceiling, 42,000 ft.; range, unknown; armament, one 32-mm., two 23-mm. cannon. Currently Russia's No. 1 day fighter...
...Artem I. Mikoyan, 52, Armenian-born brother of top Politburocrat Anastas I. Mikoyan and designer of Russia's famed MIG-15, which won him the 1947 Stalin Prize. Hot-tempered, limelight-hogging, he teamed up with Structural Specialist Mikhail Gurevich to produce World War II's MIG1 and MIG3 (the Russian Spitfire), after the war turned out a jet-propelled MIG-15, the first Russian jet to go into quantity production. He has twice been accused of using "capitalist tactics" to boost production of his own planes over others...