Aleksandr Mikulin

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin (Александр Александрович Микулин; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB. His achievements include the first Soviet liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, the Mikulin AM-34, and the Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engine for the Soviet Union's first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104. Mikulin also took part in the Tsar Tank project.

Engines

 * M-17 - BMW VI built under licence
 * AM-34
 * AM-35 - Super charged inline 895-1007kw
 * AM-37 - improved AM-35; only produced in small numbers as it was too unreliable
 * AM-38 - low-altitude engine developed from the AM-35A
 * AM-39 - higher power version of the AM-35A
 * AM-41 - used on the Gudkov Gu-1
 * AM-42 - higher power version of the AM-38F
 * AM-43 - high-altitude engine, used on Tupolev Tu-1 and Ilyushin Il-16
 * AM-44 - turbo-supercharged engine, used on Tupolev Tu-2DB
 * AM-45
 * AM-46
 * AM-47 - used on the Ilyushin Il-20
 * AM-2
 * AM-3/RD-3
 * AM-5 - renamed Tumansky RD-9 after Sergey Tumansky replaced Aleksandr Mikulin