Semyon Lavochkin (1900-1960) was a Soviet engineer, an aircraft designer, a Major General of the aviation engineering service, a twice Hero of Socialist Labor, a winner of four Stalin Prizes. He was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the designer of the first aircraft in the USSR (La-176), which reached the speed of sound in flight.
In October of 1945, he was appointed the Head of the OKB-301 in the city of Khimki of the Moscow Region (currently, NPO Lavochkin Research and Production Association), where production aircraft (La-15) and many experimental jet fighters were designed. In 1954, he began work on the Burya (Storm) intercontinental supersonic cruise missile (work manager - N. Chernyakov). He took an active part in the development of the S-25 air defense missile weapon system (Berkut) consisting of 22 early warning radar stations, 56 air defense missile weapon systems twice surrounding Moscow, 7 technical bases and 14 command control centers. In 1956, he was awarded the rank of Chief Designer for aircraft engineering.
The postage stamps provide images of the most significant inventions of S. Lavochkin: fighter aircraft La-7 and La-15; missiles SAM 205 and Burya, and unmanned target aircraft La-17R; the coupon features a portrait of S. Lavochkin, a La-5 aircraft diagram, and a facsimile of the aircraft designer; the margins present the logo of JSC NPO named after S.A. Lavochkin, aircraft La-250, La-7, SAM 205, La-17, and La-15.
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| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + security system |
Comb 12¼:12 |
42 × 30 mm |
144 × 103 mm |
20 thousand sheets |