Konstantin Kalinin
Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin was a World War I aviator and Soviet aircraft designer.
Kalinin graduated from the Odessa Military School in 1912, the Gatchina Military Aviation School in 1916 and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1925. During the Civil War of 1918–20, he was a pilot and commanding officer of Ukrainian People's Army which became one of the reason for his murder by Stalin's government. He became a member of the CPSU in 1927. In 1926, he organized and headed an aviation design bureau in Kharkiv. He designed the Kalinin K-4, Kalinin K-5, Kalinin K-7 and Kalinin K-12 aircraft.
Kalinin was executed as an enemy of the state in 1938 during the Stalinist purges. According to Soviet records, he died in 1940.
Kalinin was one of the founders and first teachers of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
