Boris Lisunov
Boris Pavlovich Lisunov (; 19 August 1898 – 3 November 1946) was a Soviet aerospace engineer. Biography Lisunov was born in Durnovskaya (now Rassvet) stanitsa, Yenotaevsky uyezd of the Governorate of Astrakhan, Russian Empire. His father was a Cossack officer. In 1918 he graduated from the Saratov secondary school #2 and went to Moscow to study at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, where he made friends with another prominent Russian aircraft designer, Sergey Ilyushin. From 1926, he served as an engineer-mechanic to an aviation squadron in the Soviet Air Force, rising to the position of chief engineer at Aircraft Factory No. 39 in Kharkov. In November 1936, Lisunov travelled to the Douglas Aircraft works in Santa Monica, California, to start the process of licensed production of the Douglas DC-3 in the Soviet Union. From November 1936 to April 1939, Lisunov documented every part of the DC-3 and its production tooling. He also documented post-delivery in-service support. Together with his boss, Vladimir Myasishchev, Lisunov started the process of re-engineering the DC-3 with the objective of putting the model into production. Most of the work involved conversion of the drawings and documents into the metric system. On 27 January 1938, Lisunov