// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Arkady Shvetsov? An engine designer, but did he shift his career into high gear?

Arkady Dmitrievich Shvetsov
Born	January 1892 Nizhniye Sergi, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Died	19 March 1953(1953-03-19) (aged 61) Moscow
Occupation	Aircraft engine designer
Known for	Producer of Shvetsov M-25 engine
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labour

Arkady Dmitrievich Shvetsov (Russian: Аркадий Дмитриевич Швецов) (January 1892, Nizhniye Sergi, today's Sverdlovsk Oblast - 19 March 1953, Moscow) was a Soviet aircraft engine designer whose OKB was founded in Perm, USSR, in 1934, to produce the Wright Cyclone-derived Shvetsov M-25 engine. Under Shvetsov, his OKB became the primary provider of radial piston engines for Soviet aircraft industry (Mikulin's and Klimov's OKB were assigned to creation of in-line engines). After his death in 1953, the OKB was taken over by Pavel Soloviev. Four Stalin Prizes (1942, 1943, 1946, 1948). Hero of Socialist Labour (1942).

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