Alexander Alexandrovich Sarkisov (05/19/1936 - 01/13/2019) - a well-known Soviet and Russian scientist, designer, specialist in the field of aircraft engine building, production organizer. General designer, doctor of technical sciences, professor. Laureate of the Lenin Prize.

1959 - graduated from the Ufa Aviation Institute with a degree in Aircraft Engines;

1959-1972 - worked in the Ufa Design Bureau of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR: design engineer, head of the design group, lead designer;

1972-1982 - deputy chief designer - deputy head of the organization;

1978-1983 - combined his main job with teaching at the UAI;

1983-1987 - Deputy Chief - Chief Engineer of the 3rd Main Directorate of Minaviaprom;

1988-2003 - General Designer - Head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Factory named after V. Y. Klimov»;

since 1990 - professor at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University;

1991 - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation;

2003 - Deputy General Director of NPO Saturn, General Designer, Director of the Scientific and Technical Center. A. Lyulki.

Contributed to the creation and production of high-performance aircraft gas turbine engines for military and civil aircraft (Su-15, Su-25, MiG-21BIS, MiG-29, Il-114, An140), helicopters (Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi28, Ka-32, Ka-50, Ka-52), unmanned aerial vehicles. Author of the university textbook "Design and design of aviation gas turbine engines" (1989). Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Aviation and Aeronautics. He was awarded the Order of the October Revolution and the Red Banner of Labor; in 1984, he was awarded the Lenin Prize.

From the memoirs of the professor of the AD department H. Gumerov:

- Alexander Alexandrovich was one year junior then me, but we were often together. He said that his love for drawings, diagrams and calculations came from his grandfather. During the war, his family, like many others, had to experience hunger and deprivation. Grandfather at that time was the chief architect in Ufa.

 “Having learned about our plight,” Alexander Alexandrovich recalled, “grandfather offered to move in with him. A graduate of the St. Petersburg Institute, he was one of the first engineers in the Bashkir province, Turgai region, Orenburg region. We lived in his house filled with drawings of various buildings and wonderful albums with views of Rome, Paris, and London. He was an incredibly hardworking person, he himself developed more than 150 projects, according to which palaces, hospitals, gymnasiums were built. Grandfather became my main educator, I learned a lot from him: how to work, how to put ideas into practice.

After graduating from school, A.A. Sarkisov chose the Ufa Aviation Institute (now Ufa State Aviation Technical University), which was rightfully considered one of the best educational institutions. Having defended his degree thesis in the specialty "Aircraft Engines", he was assigned to the newly created UCB-26 in Ufa. He worked in hot spots - he was engaged in calculations in a group of turbines, then he became the head of a group of combustion chambers, later a leading designer of especially complex products. In his biography, UEDB Soyuz was a very difficult but successful period for the creation of short-life turbojet engines. A good compressor, combustion chamber, turbine is not yet a good engine; it will become one under the condition of an optimal combination of these components, and not necessarily with extreme characteristics. This specific task, as well as the organization of the coordinated work of individual performers, small and large teams of their own and related enterprises, was skillfully performed by the deputy chief designer. Without deviating from the fundamental interests of his own enterprise, he found compromises to promote a common cause with subcontractors, so even among them he always had friends-comrades-in-arms.

Alexander Alexandrovich was not afraid of problems; he studied himself, taught and mobilized others. So engines appeared that carried aircraft at speeds many times higher than the speed of sound, raised them to heights “too high to hit them from the ground, but too low to hit them from space” (V.N. Chelomey), besides providing for some time the complete invisibility of the object.

With the factory V. Ya. Klimova Alexander Alexandrovich came into contact at least three times. At first, Ufa and Leningrad designed together and created the RD-33 engine, then he worked in the ministry, and later he was the General Designer of this famous design bureau. New versions of the famous TV3-117 helicopter engine were born here. In recent years, new engines have rarely been created in our country, but A.A. Sarkisov overcame difficulties with the strength of his talent and brilliant organizational skills.

Tu-141 "Swift" is a reusable Soviet operational-tactical reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle. Its engine Turbojet engine KR-17A was developed with the direct participation of A.A. Sarkisov. In 2014, "Swift" became a landmark exhibit of the Festival of Sciences at USATU.

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