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OKB is a transliteration of the Russian acronym for "Опытное конструкторское бюро" - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology, usually for military applications.

A bureau was officially identified by a number, and often semi-officially by the name of the lead designer - for example, OKB-51 was lead by Pavel Sukhoi, and eventually became known as OKB Sukhoi. Successful and famous bureaux often retained this name even after the death or replacement of that designer.

These relatively small state-run organisations were not intended for mass production of aircraft, rockets, or other vehicles or equipment they designed. However they usually had the facilities and resources to construct prototypes. Designs accepted by the state were then assigned to factories for mass production.

OKBs in
KB-1 - V.M. Shabanov

OKB-1 - Korolev

OKB-2 - early name of MKB Raduga (OKB-155-2)

OKB-4 - Molniya

OKB-19 - Shvetsov, Soloviev. Now: "Perm MKB". [link]

OKB-20 - Klimov, Omsk-Motors

OKB-23 - Myasishchev (also OKB-482)

OKB-24 - Mikulin

OKB-26 - Klimov

OKB-39 - Ilyushin

OKB-45 - Klimov

OKB-49 - Beriev

OKB-51 - Sukhoi

OKB-52 - Chelomei

OKB-86 - Bartini

OKB-115 - Yakovlev

OKB-117 - Klimov

OKB-120 - Schdanov

OKB-124 - N/A (cooling systems for Tu-121)

OKB-134 - Vympel

OKB-140 - N/A (first hydro-alcohol starter-generators for Tu-121)

OKB-153 - Antonov

OKB-155 - Mikoyan (formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich)

OKB-155-2 - (sometimes designated as OKB-2-155) OKB-155 spin-off in Dubna. Gurevich, Berezniak-Isaev (BI)... Now MKB Raduga.

OKB-156 - Tupolev

OKB-165 - Lyulka

OKB-240 - Yermolaev

OKB-256 - Tsybin

OKB-276 - Kuznetsov

OKB-300 - Tumansky

OKB-301 - Lavochkin

OKB-329 - Mil

SKB-385 - Makeev

OKB-458 - Tschetverikov

OKB-478 - Ivtschenko

OKB-586 - Yangel

OKB-938 - Kamov

References

[Aviation.ru - "OKBs"]

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OKB

OKBs in KB-1 - V.M. Shabanov

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