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Soviet aerospace engineer (1903-1979)

Georgy Beriev
Георгий Бериев
Beriev in 1950
Born	13 February 1903 Tbilisi,Tiflis Governorate,Russian Empire
Died	12 July 1979(1979-07-12) (aged 76) Moscow,USSR
Nationality	Soviet Union,Georgian
Engineering career
Discipline	Aeronautical Engineering
Employer(s)	Beriev design bureau
Significant design	Be-2,MBR-2,Be-6,Be-10,Be-12,R-1,B-30
Awards	Stalin Prize Order of Lenin

Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev (Beriashvili) (Russian:Георгий Михайлович БериевGeorgij Michajlovič Beriev;Georgian: გიორგი მიხეილის ძე ბერიაშვილიGiorgi Mikheilis Dze Beriashvili; 13 February 1903 – 12 July 1979), was a Soviet Georgianmajor general, founder and chief designer of theBeriev Design Bureau inTaganrog, which concentrated onamphibious aircraft.^[1]^[2]

Biography

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Beriev was born inTbilisi in theTiflis Governorate (present day Tbilisi,Georgia) of theRussian Empire. Of ethnicGeorgian origin, his antecedents are uncertain, and it is not known when his family name wasRussified from Beriashvili to Beriev. After graduating from the railway school in Tbilisi in 1923, he attended the School of Shipbuilding Engineering at theLeningrad Polytechnic Institute (now Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University), and graduated with an engineering degree in 1930. He worked as an aircraft designer at the Central Design Office "WR Menzhinsky", where he developed theBeriev MBR-2 seaplane. From October 1934 to 1968, he ran the Central Design Office for marine aircraft inTaganrog, where he developed numerous successful, and often unique, amphibious aircraft designs.

In 1947, he was awarded theStalin Prize for his work on theBe-6. He was also twice awarded theOrder of Lenin and twice theOrder of the Red Banner of Labour. In 1968, for theBe-12 (1968) design, he was awarded theUSSR State Prize.

After retirement, he moved to Moscow and died in 1979.^[3]^[4]

Awards and honors

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Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945)
Stalin Prize (1947)
Order of Lenin (1945, 1953)
Medal "For Battle Merit" (1955)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1963, 1966)
USSR State Prize (1968)

Memory

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By Order of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of December 6, 1989PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company named after G. M. Beriev.
Bust on the territory of the TANTK inTaganrog.
Bust in the cityZhukovsky, Moscow Oblast (in the park named after V. V. Mayakovsky).
A memorial plaque on a passing tank in Taganrog.
A memorial plaque in Taganrog on the house where he lived.
A memorial plaque inMoscow on the building where he worked in the 1920s and 1930s.
A memorial plaque inKrasnoyarsk on the house where he worked during the war.
Memorial plaque on the main building ofPeter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Streets in Taganrog andTbilisi are named after him.