Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak (–July 7, 1974) was a Soviet aircraft

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 and missile

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 designer. He was the Chief Designer of MKB "Raduga"

MKB Raduga

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, from March 1957.

He was born on 29 December, 1912 in Boyarkino, Ozerski District

Ozyorsky District, Moscow Oblast

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, Moscow Region. Alexander Bereznyak was a Soviet aircraft designer, a doctor of technical science (1968), and an honoured worker of science and technology in the RSFSR (1973). He became a member of the CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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 in 1932. He was employed in aviation industries since 1931. Bereznyak was a Graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute

Moscow Aviation Institute

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 named after Ordzhonikidze (1938). He was an engineer in the experimental design bureau of V.F.Bolkhovitinov

Viktor Fedorovich Bolkhovitinov

Viktor Fedorovich Bolkhovitinov was a Soviet engineer, team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft....

 While working in the bureau, he designed the first soviet jet, the BI-1, which was equipped with liquid fuel to power a rocket engine

Rocket engine

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. The BI-1 was created in 1942 in co-operation with A.M.Isayev

Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev

Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev was a Russian rocket engineer.Aleksei Isaev began work under Leonid Dushkin during World War II, on an experimental rocket-powered interceptor plane. In 1944 he formed his own design bureau to engineer liquid-propellant engines...

). He became Vice-chief designer of OKB-2 in 1946, later to become The chief designer in 1957. Bereznyak was later awarded with the Lenin Prize

Lenin Prize

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,the USSR State Prize

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, the Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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,the Order of October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and numerous medals. He died on 7 July 1974 in Dubna

Dubna

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, Moscow region.

Aircraft (conventional)

• BI
  Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1
  Soviet research and development of rocket-powered aircraft began with Sergey Korolev's GIRD-6 project in 1932. His interest in stratospheric flight was also shared by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky who supported this early work...
  
   — an early rocket-powered aircraft
  Rocket-powered aircraft
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   and the world's first rocket fighter developed by Bereznyak and Isaev
  Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev
  Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev was a Russian rocket engineer.Aleksei Isaev began work under Leonid Dushkin during World War II, on an experimental rocket-powered interceptor plane. In 1944 he formed his own design bureau to engineer liquid-propellant engines...
  
   in 1940-1944. It flew after German's experimental He-176, but still was the first Soviet rocket plane. Eight test planes (usually referred as BI-1 — BI-8) were built.
• 302P
• 346 — experimental, trans-sonic speed, 1946.
• 468 — jet, project, 1948..1949.