Arkhip Lyulka Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyul ' ka ( " Ukrainian " : Архип Михайлович Люлька , " Russian " : Архи́п Миха́йлович Лю́лька ) ( 1908 – 1984 ) , was a Soviet scientist and designer of jet engines of Ukrainian origin , head of the OKB Lyulka , member of the USSR Academy of Sciences . Biography . Arkhip Lyulka was born on March 23 , 1908 in Savarka village in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine . He was educated in the Savarka village school and graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute ( KPI ) in 1931 ( Mykhailo Krawtchouk was his teacher and mentor in both institutions ) . He then worked for two years in the Kharkov turbogen factory . In 1939 - 1941 Arkhip Lyul ' ka elaborated the design for the World ' s first double jet turbofan engine , and acquired a patent for this new invention on April 22 , 1941 . Although several prototypes were built and ready for state tests , Lyulka was forced to abandon his research and evacuate to the Ural mountains as the Great Patriotic War began with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union . In 1941 - 42 , Lyul ' ka worked in a tank factory in Chelyabinsk as a Diesel - engine engineer . However , after the disaster of the Soviet rocket engine project of 1942 , Joseph Stalin recalled Arkhip Lyul ' ka among other scientists working on jet engines to resume their work in Moscow . From 1945 onwards , the Soviet jet engine project split into two : the OKB MiG based their development on German trophy aircraft and Western technology . Lyul ' ka , however , refused any foreign influence and continued his own research . In 1945 - 47 he designed the first Soviet jet engine , TR - 1 , which passed the whole cycle of state tests with success . Pavel Sukhoy ( head of the OKB Sukhoy ) immediately proposed to install the new engine on his Su - 11 jets , starting a long collaborative work with Lyulka . He later designed the AL - 5 , AL - 7 , AL - 21 turbojet engines which were installed on the Su - 7 , Su - 17 , Su - 20 , Su - 24 , MiG - 23 and other Soviet military aircraft . Lyulka also designed the upper stage engines for the Soviet moon rocket N1 . In the 1970s , Pavel Sukhoy asked Arkhip Lyul ' ka to design a new engine with unorthodox characteristics for installation on the projected Su - 27 . The challenge was taken up , and although Pavel Sukhoy died in 1974 , his work was carried on by his successors and colleagues , including Lyulka . The primary difficulty in designing this aircraft appeared to be in the engines , which had to be constantly redesigned and upgraded . As a result of the intensive work of Arkhip Lyul ' ka and his team , the work on the new engine , Al - 31F , was finally accomplished in the early 1980s , . Unfortunately , Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyul ' ka died on June 2 , 1984 , probably as a result of the exhaustion he had suffered in his commitment to the project . Achievements . Overall , the achievements of Arkhip Lyulka have become decisive for Russia and its allies . To this day , the patent for double jet turbofan engines widely used in all sectors of the world ' s aviation belongs to him . The Al - 31 alone has become the cornerstone for various international developments in both civilian and military sectors , now undertaken by NPO Saturn , the heir to Lyulka ' s OKB .