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{{Short description|Russian aerospace company}}
{{About|the Russian aircraft manufacturer|people with the surname|Yakovlev (surname)}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Yakovlev Design Bureau
|former_names = OKB-115
|logo = Yakovlev_logo.png
|type = [[Division (business)|division]]
|foundation = {{start date and age|1934|01|15|df=y}}
|fate = merged into [[United Aircraft Corporation]]
|founder =[[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev]]
|location_city = [[Moscow]]
|location_country = Russia
|key_people = 
|num_employees =
|industry = {{unbulleted list|[[aerospace]]|[[Arms industry|defense]]}}
|products = civil and military aeroplanes
|parent = [[Yakovlev Corporation]]
|revenue =
|homepage = {{URL|http://www.yak.ru/ENG/}}
}}
The '''[[Joint-stock company|JSC]] A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau'''<ref>[http://www.yak.ru/ENG/FIRM/today0.php A.S.Yakovlev Design Bureau - General Data]</ref><ref>[http://www.uacrussia.ru/en/investors/ UAC - General information]</ref> ({{langx|ru|ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева}}) is a [[Russian aircraft designer]] and manufacturer (design office prefix '''Yak'''). Its head office is in [[Aeroport District]], [[Northern Administrative Okrug]], [[Moscow]].<ref>[http://www.yak.ru/ENG/ Home page]. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" [http://www.yak.ru/ Address in Russian]: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68"</ref> It is a subsidiary of [[Yakovlev Corporation]].

==Overview==
The bureau formed in 1934 under aircraft designer [[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev]] as '''[[OKB]]-115''' (the design bureau has its own production base at the facility No.115), but dates its birth from 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the [[Yakovlev AIR-1|AIR-1]] aircraft developed within{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S. Yakovlev.

During [[World War II]] Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of [[fighter aircraft]].

[[Irkut (aircraft manufacturer)|Irkut]] acquired Yakovlev in April 2004.<ref>[http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/37645/russia%E2%80%99s-irkut-buys-yakovlev-bureau-%28apr.-23%29.html Irkut Corporation Completes Yakovlev Design Bureau Acquisition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127204343/http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/37645/russia%E2%80%99s-irkut-buys-yakovlev-bureau-%28apr.-23%29.html |date=2020-11-27 }}. defense-aerospace.com, April 22, 2004.</ref> The Russian government merged the holding company with [[Mikoyan]], [[Ilyushin]], Irkut, [[Sukhoi]] and [[Tupolev]] as a new company named [[United Aircraft Building Corporation]] in February 2006.<ref name="nyt_united_aircraft">"
[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/business/worldbusiness/22air.html?_r=1&oref=login Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger]." ''[[The New York Times]].'' February 22, 2006.
</ref>

The firm designed the [[Yakovlev Pchela|''Pchela'']] ({{langx|ru|Пчела}}, "bee") [[drone aircraft|drone reconnaissance aircraft]] (first flown in 1990), but is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter-aircraft.

In August 2023, [[Irkut Corporation]] rebranded itself as Yakovlev. The [[Sukhoi Superjet 100]] was redesignated as the SJ-100, and the [[Irkut MC-21]] also adopted the Yakovlev name.<ref name="IrkutYakovlev">{{cite news |last1=Kaminski-Morrow |first1=David |title=Yakovlev name formally approved as Irkut's new corporate identity |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/yakovlev-name-formally-approved-as-irkuts-new-corporate-identity/154573.article |work=Flight Global |date=16 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

; Sanctions
The company was sanctioned by the Canadian government on 22 August 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russian entities from the military-industrial, financial and nuclear sectors Country: Russia |url=https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/response_conflict-reponse_conflits/crisis-crises/ukraine-sanctions.aspx?lang=eng |date=23 August 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Russia|Aviation}}
* [[List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS]]
* [[List of Yakovlev aircraft]]
* [[SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* A book by A.T.Stepanets. ''Yak Fighters in WWII'' {{ISBN|5-217-01192-0}} (in Russian)
* Степанец А.Т.- Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны. Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:

==External links==
{{Commons category|Yakovlev}}
* {{Official|http://www.yak.ru}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050303215036/http://www.yak-54.com/ Yakovlev Aircraft of U.S.]

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