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{{short description|Russian Aircraft Company}}
{{Expand Russian|date=June 2023}}{{Infobox company
| name   = Beriev Aircraft Company
| logo   = Berievlogo.jpg
| image = Taganrog Beriev Aircraft Company Tu-142MZ IMG 7913 1725.jpg
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| type   = [[joint-stock company]]
| slogan =
| foundation     = {{Start date and age|1934}}
| founder        = [[Georgy Beriev]]
| location       = HQ and production facilities at the South Taganrog Airport ''(Аэропорт Таганрог-Южный) - URRT'', in the outskirts of [[Taganrog, Russia]] {{coord|47|11|56.36|N|38|50|42|E|type:airport}}
| key_people     = Mikhail V. Grezin, Executive Director<br>Nikolay A. Lavro, Chief Designer
| num_employees  =
| industry       = [[aerospace]]
| revenue        =
| parent         = [[United Aircraft Corporation]]
| products       = Aircraft, primarily [[seaplane]]s
| homepage       = [http://www.beriev.com/eng/core_e.html beriev.com]
}}
The '''PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company''' ({{langx|ru|Таганрогский авиационный научно-технический комплекс им. Г. М. Бериева||Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific Technical Complex}}), formerly '''Beriev Design Bureau''', is a Russian [[aircraft manufacturer]] (design office prefix '''Be'''), specializing in [[amphibious aircraft]].

The company was founded in [[Taganrog]] in 1934{{cn|date=March 2024}} as [[OKB]]-49 by [[Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev]], and since that time has designed and produced more than 20 different models of aircraft for civilian and military purposes, as well as customized models. Today the company employs some 3000 specialists and is developing and manufacturing amphibious aircraft.

Pilots flying Beriev seaplanes have broken 228 world aviation records, which are registered and acknowledged by the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]].{{cn|date=March 2024}}

==History==
[[Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev]] founded the design bureau that bears his name at Taganrog in 1932.{{cn|date=March 2024}} The traditional focus of the Beriyev Design Bureau has been the development of seaplanes for military and civilian use. The Bureau was moved to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1942 to avoid destruction in World War II, and returned to Taganrog in 1945.<ref name="rdbd2875">{{cite web|title=Russian Defense Business Directory|url=https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/rus2875/index.html|website=Federation of American Scientists|publisher=US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration|access-date=21 July 2017|date=May 1995}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{PD-notice}}</ref> In November 1989, Beriev became the only defense industry enterprise to win the Prize for Quality awarded by the Soviet Government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beriev.com/eng/core_e.html |title=Beriev Aircraft Company |access-date=2008-05-28 |archive-date=2019-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203182826/http://www.beriev.com/eng/core_e.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Aircraft ==
[[File:Beriev Be-200ChS AN2301895.jpg|thumb|[[Beriev Be-200]], amphibious airplane]]

* [[Beriev MBR-2|Beriev MBR-2/MP-1]], multi-purpose flying boat, 1935
* [[Beriev Be-2|Beriev Be-2/KOR-1/KR-2]], reconnaissance seaplane, 1936; NATO codename "Mote"
* [[Beriev Be-4]], reconnaissance seaplane, 1940 
* [[Beriev MBR-7]], prototype short-range reconnaissance/bomber flying boat, 1937
* [[Beriev MDR-5]], long-range reconnaissance/bomber flying boat, 1938
* [[Beriev B-10]], high-speed fighter project, 1939
* [[Beriev Be-4|Beriev Be-4/KOR-2]], parasol-wing flying boat, 1940; NATO codename "Mug"
* [[Beriev Be-5|Beriev Be-5/KOR-3]], three-seat, single engine, catapult-launched seaplane, not built
* [[Beriev MDR-8]], unbuilt long-range reconnaissance aircraft, 1939
* [[Beriev MDRT]], long-range maritime reconnaissance/torpedo bomber, 1940
* [[Beriev BB-282F]], twin-engine armored bomber, 1942
* [[Beriev MDR-10]], long-range maritime reconnaissance, 1942
* [[Beriev Be-6|Beriev LL-143]], prototype twin-engine flying boat, precursor of Be-6, 1945
* [[Beriev Be-8]], passenger/liaison amphibian, 1947; NATO codename "Mole" or "Mode"
* [[Beriev Printsessa]], projected large six-engine passenger/patrol flying boat, 1947
* [[Beriev Be-6]], flying boat used for firefighting duty, 1949; NATO codename "Madge"
* [[Beriev R-1]], experimental jet-powered flying boat, 1952
* [[Beriev Be-1]], prototype [[Wing-in-ground effect vehicle|wing-in-ground effect (WIG)]] aircraft, 1956
* [[Beriev Be-10|Beriev Be-10/M-10]], jet-engined flying boat, 1956; NATO codename "Mallow"
* [[Beriev Be-12|Beriev Be-12/M-12]] ''Chayka'', Amphibious aircraft, similar in function to the [[Canadair]] [[CL-415]], used for [[anti-submarine warfare]], based upon the Be-6, 1960; NATO codename "Mail"
* [[Beriev Be-16]], heavy military transport project, 1959
* [[An-Be-20]], projected 1960s trijet regional airliner developed in cooperation with Antonov; cancelled in favor of the Yakovlev Yak-40
* [[Beriev S-13]], a clone of the [[Lockheed U-2]] reconnaissance plane, 1961.<ref>Yefim Gordon: Soviet X-Planes. Midland Publishing, 2000, {{ISBN|978-1-85780-099-9}}</ref>
* [[Beriev Be-24]], amphibious airliner project, 1963
* [[Beriev Be-26]], projected amphibious ASW aircraft
* [[Beriev Be-30 (1965)|Beriev Be-30]], light single-engine airliner project, 1965
* [[Beriev Be-32 (1965)|Beriev Be-32]], VTOL aircraft in various configurations, 1965
* [[Beriev Be-30]], regional airliner and utility transport aircraft, 1967; NATO codename "Cuff"
* [[Beriev Be-40 (1968)|Beriev Be-40]], airliner project, 1968
* [[Antonov An-30]], aerial cartography development of the [[Antonov An-24]], 1971
* [[Bartini Beriev VVA-14]], an amphibious anti-submarine aircraft, only prototypes were produced, 1972
* [[Beriev Be-30|Beriev Be-32]], a multipurpose airplane meant for cargo/passenger transport, patrol and expeditions. Modernized version of Be-30, 1976
* [[Tupolev Tu-142]]MR, Tu-142MK's modified by Beriev as submarine communications relay aircraft, 1977
* [[Beriev A-50]] ''Shmel'', a modified [[Ilyushin Il-76]] modified into an [[Airborne Early Warning and Control|AWACS]] role, 1985; NATO codename "Mainstay"
* [[Beriev A-60]], an Ilyushin Il-76 converted into an airborne laser laboratory, 1981
* [[Beriev A-40]] ''Albatros'', the largest multipurpose amphibian airplane in the world, 1986; NATO codename "Mermaid". Cancelled due to the breakup of the Soviet Union, but later revived as the A-42.
* [[Beriev A-40|Beriev A-42 ''Albatros'']], prototype SAR variant of A-40, 1990. Combined with the A-44 in 1993 to form a multi-role aircraft. Prototype finished in 2006 and an R&D agreement signed by the Defense Ministry, but was cancelled in 2011. In 2019, the Russian Navy announced an order for three A-42s.
* [[Beriev A-40|Beriev A-44]], military patrol version of A-42, 1990. Combined with the A-42 in 1993.
* [[Beriev Be-112]] proposed twin-engined propeller amphibian airplane, 1995
* [[Beriev Be-103]] ''Bekas'', a light amphibian, intended for passenger transport, medical aid, patrol and tourism, 1997
* [[Beriev Be-200]] ''Altair'', a large multipurpose amphibian airplane, 1998
* [[Beriev Be-115]], amphibious aircraft project, 1999
* [[Beriev A-100]], a modified Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A AWACS that will succeed the A-50 and A-50U, 2017
* [[Beriev Be-101]] proposed single-engine light amphibian
* [[Beriev Be-2500]] ''Neptun'', a proposed super-heavy amphibian cargo aircraft with a max takeoff weight of 2500 metric tons (planned)

== Operation ==
[[Beriev Be-200|Be-200]] ([[Irkut Corporation]]), [[Beriev Be-103|Be-103]] ([[Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant]]) are produced here.

In 2007 the company's revenue amounted to 1.616 billion rubles (in 2006 — 2.011 billion rubles), net profit — 14.148 million rubles (182.777 million rubles).

In 2008 revenue (excluding VAT) amounted to 1.893 billion rubles (foreign market) and 939 million rubles (domestic market). Profit from sales — 275 million rubles.

In April 2011 JSC TAVIA was joined to JSC Beriev TANTK.

== Directors ==
'''Chief Designers of the Joint Design Bureau of Marine Aircraft Engineering (OKB MS):'''

* 1934-1968 — G. M. Beriev
* 1968-1990 — A. K. Konstantinov
* 1990-1994 — G. S. Panatov

'''Director of the Taganrog Machine-Building Plant:'''

* 1973-1985 — I. E. Yesaulenko

'''Heads of G. M. Beriev TANTK:'''

* 1994-2002 — G. S. Panatov (General Designer and CEO)
* 2002-2003 — V. V. Boev (CEO)
* 2003-2014 — V. A. Kobzev (CEO, since November 2007 CEO-General Designer)
* 2014-2015 — I. B. Garivadsky (CEO-General Designer)
* 2015-2019 — Y. V. Grudinin (CEO-гGeneral Designer)
* 2019-2020 — M. V. Grezin (Managing Director)
* 2020-2021 — M. M. Tikhonov (Managing Director)
* from 2021 — P. V. Pavlov (Managing Director)

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.beriev.com/rus/core.html Official site in Russian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705154712/http://www.beriev.com/rus/core.html |date=2014-07-05 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027001447/http://www.beriev-usa.com/ US division]
* [http://www.taganrogcity.com/beriev.html Beriev Aircraft Corp. in the Taganrog Business Directory]

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