Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (or Roberto Oros di Bartini) (1897-1974) was an aircraft designer and scientist born in Fiuma (Rieka , Yugoslavia).

Bartini became a member of Italian Communist Party in 1921. He have graduated officer school (1916), flying school (1921) and Milan Polytechnical Institute (1922). After Fascist revolution in Italy, in 1923, he was undercover transferred to USSR as aviation engineer. He occupied several engineering and command positions in VVS RKKA since 1923. He became a head of department of experimental amphibious aircraft design in 1928. He was a head of design department of NII GVF, designer general, since 1930.

He was unjustly procecuted and in 1937-1947 was imprisoned. He continued his work on new aircraft deisigns as prisioner in TsKB 29 NKVD and in Taganrog OKB, then in SibNIA, Novosibirsk. R.L.Bartini was rehabitated in 1956. Published papers in areas of aviation construction materials, technolgy, aerodynamics, dynamics of flight.

References

• Bartini page at www.aviation.ru, http://www.aviation.ru/Bartini/ . Retrived 14-Feb-2005.