OKB Sukhoi
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Sukhoi Company (JSC) head office/Sukhoi Design Bureau offices in the Begovoy District in Moscow, Russia
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Formerly called
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OKB-51 |
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| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | as OKB-51, 1939 |
| Headquarters | Begovoy District, Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Pavel Sukhoi (Founder) |
| Products | Military aircraft Civil airliners |
| Revenue |
 ₽47.8 billion (2011)
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₽7 billion (2011)
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₽5.2 billion (2011)
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Number of employees
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26,177 (2011) |
| Parent | United Aircraft Corporation |
| Website | www |
Pavel Sukhoi (Founder)
Igor Y. Ozar (General Director)
Sukhoi Company (JSC; Russian: ПАО «Компания „Сухой“») is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, and designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su). The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.
The Sukhoi Design Bureau, designated as OKB-51, was an independent engineering and design department created by Pavel Sukhoi, a Soviet Russian aerospace engineer in September 1939, under a government resolution. The resolution also gave Sukhoi's team of the design bureau standalone status and relocation to the Production Aircraft Plant No. 135 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Sukhoi was not satisfied with its location, since it was isolated from the scientific pole of Moscow. In Kharkiv, Sukhoi and his team introduced the short-range bomber, the BB-1, designed two years prior, for the Soviet Air Forces. The BB-1 was accepted for production, and went into service, changing its name to the Su-2 in 1940. Sukhoi later relocated the bureau to the aerodrome of Podmoskovye in Moscow, completing half of the relocation by 1940. Sukhoi encountered another issue: the bureau had no production line, thus making it useless as Sukhoi had nothing to do. He had developed a new ground-attack plane, the Su-6, but Stalin decided that this plane should not be put into production, favouring production of the Ilyushin Il-2.
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