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| Polikarpov Design Bureau | |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | Moscow, Russia |
| Defunct | 30 July 1944 |
| Fate | Absorbed into Lavochkin |
| Successor | |
| Key people | Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov |
| Products | Aircraft |
Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led from 1922 by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. It was based at the GAZ No. 1 aircraft production plant (previously the Dux Aircraft Factory) in Moscow, which was acquired by the USSR in 1920, and where its purpose-built building still stands. During the 1920s and 1930s Polikarpov OKB headquarters designed and built a wide range of military aircraft.
After the death of Polikarpov on 30 July 1944 at the age of 52, his OKB was absorbed into Lavochkin, but with some of its engineers going to Mikoyan-Gurevich and its production facilities going to Sukhoi.
