Vladimir Yermolaev

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolayev (Russian: Владимир Григориевич Ермолаев), 1909-1944, was a Soviet aircraft designer, general-major of aviation engineering service. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1931.

Yermolaev was a leading engineer in development of the Bartini "Stal-7" aircraft. Yermolayev became the chief of OKB of Roberto Bartini in 1939 after Bartini was arrested; he led the development and production of Stal-7 based long range bomber Yer-2 (DB-240) and its variants Yer-4 with ACh-30 engines. Executed R.L.Bartini became a subordinate of Yermolayev.

Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhus infection. His OKB was inherited by Pavel Sukhoi.