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The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (Russian: ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak).
Yakovlev, as the head of the Commission on the Rehabilitation of Soviet Repression Victims, meets President Vladimir Putin. Yakovlev led Boris Yeltsin's commission for the rehabilitation of victims of Soviet political repression.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev (born March 19 [April 1, New Style], 1906, Moscow, Russia—died August 22, 1989, Moscow, Russia) was an aircraft designer noted for his series of Yak aircraft, most of them fighters used by the Soviet Union in World War II.
Sep 7, 2017 · The twenty-two chapters dealing with his life cover a total of 80 pages; the remainder comprise translations of two of Yakovlev’s works, his 1972 article “Against Anti-historicism” published in Literaturnaia Gazeta, and his Memorandum of December 1985 in which he sets out some ideas for change in the Soviet Union.
Oct 19, 2005 · Alexander Yakovlev, who has died in Moscow aged 81, was the most powerful - and most contradictory - intellectual in the top echelons of the Soviet Communist party in its final decade.
Learn about the life and career of Aleksandr Yakovlev, a key figure in the perestroika era and the founder of the Movement for Democratic Reform. Find out his role in the Communist Party, the New Political Thinking, and the investigation of Stalin's repression.
Oct 18, 2005 · Alexander Yakovlev was a key adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev and a champion of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union. He also exposed the Stalinist crimes and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and helped to create a multi-party system.
