Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolaev (; 29 August 1909 31 December 1944) was a Soviet aircraft designer, general-major of the 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-240 in 1939, after Bartini was arrested and interned in a Siberian Gulag; he led the development and production of Stal-7–based long-range bomber DB-240/Yer-2/Yer-4 and its variants with Charomskiy ACh-30 diesel engines. Yermolaev died in 1944 due to a typhoid infection. Aircraft Yermolaev Yer-2 See also Yermolaev Design Bureau References 1909 births 1944 deaths Russian aerospace engineers Soviet engineers 20th-century Russian engineers Deaths from typhoid fever