The model ORM-65D liquid fuel rocket engine with a thrust of up to 1750 N, using nitric acid-kerosene fuel, was developed in 1936 under the leadership of Academician Valentin Petrovich Glushko. The engine was intended for installation on the RP-318 rocket plane and the 212 cruise missile designed by S.P. Korolev
The AM-3 (RD-3) turbojet engine specifically for the Tu-16 aircraft was developed in 1950 by Special Design Bureau-300 under the leadership of Alexander Alexandrovich Mikulin. The project was also known by the worktitle AMRD-03. At the time of its creation, it was the most powerful aircraft engine in the world.
The NK8 gas turbine engine successfully passed 100-hour state tests and was approved for the serial production at the Kuibyshev Engine Plant, named after M.V.Frunze, on December 25, 1954.
The Senior Founders of Russian turbomachinery industry
The first Soviet solid fuel jet engine was created, passing state tests in February 1947 under the leadership of Academician Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka. In subsequent years, a number of turbojet engines were developed under Arkhip Lyulka's team.
The modified VK-1A and VK-1F engines, using the method of boosting (increasing) thrust by burning fuel behind the turbine in the afterburner chamber, were built in 1952 under the leadership of Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov.
The gas turbine units for the vehicles of naval forces of USSR serial production started at Southern turbine plant under the leadership of Chief Designer Sergey Dmitrievich Kolosov.