{{Short description|Aircraft jet engine designer}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Aleksandr Mikulin | honorific_suffix = | image = Александр Александрович Микулин.jpg | image_size = | alt = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | citizenship = | birth_name = Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|02|14}} | birth_place = Vladimir, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|05|13|1895|02|14}} | death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | spouse = | parents = | children = | module = {{Infobox engineering career | discipline = | institutions = Mikulin OKB | practice_name = | employer = | significant_projects = Tsar Tank | significant_design = Mikulin AM-34 | significant_advance = | significant_awards = }} | signature = | signature_alt = }}
'''Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin''' ({{langx|ru|Александр Александрович Микулин}}; 14 February 1895 – 13 May 1985) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alexander Alexandrovich Mikulin|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mikulin.htm|access-date=2021-07-28|website=www.globalsecurity.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=3 early tank designs that were too ridiculous to function|url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/3-early-tank-designs-were-103458662.html|access-date=2021-07-28|website=in.news.yahoo.com|language=en-IN}}</ref>
==Engines== * M-17 – BMW VI built under licence * AM-34 * AM-35 – Super charged inline 895-1007kw<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dancey|first=Peter G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ji5DgAAQBAJ&dq=Alexander+Mikulin&pg=PT161|title=Soviet Aircraft Industry|date=2017-04-22|publisher=Fonthill Media|language=en}}</ref> * 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
== Awards == * Hero of Socialist Labour (1940) * Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1942) * Two Stalin Prizes second degree (1943, 1946) * Orders and medals ==See also== *Soyuz Scientific Production Association
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