was by birth, and oleg antonov, alexey nikolaev, aviation historian, director of the foundation for promotingment of aviation and cosmonautics, our sky, is glad to welcome you, and oleg konstantinovich, he was actually born on territory of the moscow region, in the podolsk region, his entire engineering and design life and his formation took place at enterprises in moscow. it so happened that in soviet times, yakovlev’s deputy for the production of aircraft at the novosibirsk aviation plant was antonov, by that time he was already a mature designer, he had his own deputies at this plant, he proactively began to develop the first-born antonovo design bureau, created this is the antonovo design bureau actually in novosibirsk, it was an an-2 aircraft, and when work began at the ministry aviation industry of the ussr. that it was necessary to create a line of military transport aircraft, then the aviation industry of the ussr had an engine design bureau and a plant in zaporozhye on the territory of ukraine, and it was decided that the designers would not travel from novosibirsk to zaporozhye, whi