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The collection includes two works dedicated to the famous Soviet aircraft designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906-1989) He personally and under his leadership created over 200 aircraft: from light aircraft to passenger airliners, from the best fighters of the war to unique aircraft of vertical take -off and landing, from planners to drones. This tradition is continued by the OKB named after A.S. Yakovlev and this day.
The first work is the story The purpose of his life. Aviation journalist and writer Yuri Ostapenko in his unique semi -artistic manner fascinatingly talks about the formation of A.S. Yakovleva as an engineer, about his work in the People"s Commissariat of Aviation Industry, about his relations with Stalin, about the “reactive” post -war period, about competition among developers of aircraft and helicopters, about relations with associates and friends, and simultaneously it is told about the events in the history of our country, About large aviation and politicians.
The second work, the essay Heavenly Spectrum, the engineer and historian of the aviation industry Igor Shustov devoted to the design activities of the Yakovlev collective in the field of the creation of aircraft from the moment of origin to this day. This essay is, as it were, an explanation for the story by Yu. Ostapenko, plus the reader learns about many things that are not mentioned in the story. Talking about all the significant, implemented projects of the OKB Yakovlev, the author, which is both the art designer of the book at the same time, tried to illustrate both his work and the historical story as much as possible, so that the reader plunges as much as possible to that political and creative environment and understands what the heaps are aircraft Yakovlev and what the people who are talking about in the book looked