OKB

'OKB' is a transliteration of the Russian acronym for "Опытное конструкторское бюро" - ''Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro'', meaning 'Development Design Bureau'. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology, usually for military applications.
A bureau was officially identified by a number, and often semi-officially by the name of the lead designer - for example, OKB-51 was lead by Pavel Sukhoi, and eventually became known as OKB Sukhoi. Successful and famous bureaux often retained this name even after the death or replacement of that designer.
These relatively small state-run organisations were not intended for mass production of aircraft, rockets, or other vehicles or equipment they designed. However they usually had the facilities and resources to construct prototypes. Designs accepted by the state were then assigned to factories for mass production.
== OKBs in aerospace industry ==

★ KB-1 - V.M. Shabanov

★ OKB-1 - Korolev

★ OKB-2 - early name of MKB Raduga (OKB-155-2)

★ OKB-3 - Bratukhin

★ OKB-4 - Molniya

★ OKB-19 - Shvetsov, Soloviev. Now: "Perm MKB". [1]

★ OKB-20 - Klimov, Omsk-Motors

★ OKB-23 - Myasishchev (also OKB-482)

★ OKB-24 - Mikulin

★ OKB-26 - Klimov

★ OKB-39 - Ilyushin

★ OKB-45 - Klimov

★ OKB-49 - Beriev

★ OKB-51 - Sukhoi

★ OKB-52 - Chelomei

★ OKB-86 - Bartini

★ OKB-115 - Yakovlev

★ OKB-117 - Klimov

★ OKB-120 - Zhdanov

★ OKB-124 - N/A (cooling systems for Tu-121)

★ OKB-134 - Vympel

★ OKB-140 - N/A (first hydro-alcohol starter-generators for Tu-121)

★ OKB-153 - Antonov

★ OKB-155 - Mikoyan (formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich)

★ OKB-155-2 - (sometimes designated as OKB-2-155) OKB-155 spin-off in Dubna. Gurevich, Berezniak-Isaev (BI)... Now MKB Raduga.

★ OKB-156 - Tupolev

★ OKB-165 - Lyulka

★ OKB-207 - Borovkov,and Florov

★ OKB-240 - Yermolaev

★ OKB-256 - Tsybin

★ OKB-276 - Kuznetsov

★ OKB-300 - Tumansky

★ OKB-301 - Lavochkin

★ OKB-329 - Mil

★ SKB-385 - Makeev

★ OKB-458 - Tschetverikov

★ OKB-478 - Ivchenko

★ OKB-586 - Yangel

★ OKB-938 - Kamov

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