Lavochkin

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Lavochkin
Type	State-owned company
Founded
Headquarters	<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Semyon Lavochkin, designer</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Aerospace and defense</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Military aircraft</td></tr>

Lavochkin (OKB-301) was a Soviet aircraft design bureau (OKB), now defunct, named for its head designer, Semyon Lavochkin. It gained distinction for its family of piston-engined fighter aircraft during World War II, and later shifted to missile designs. The bureau was closed in 1960 upon its head designer's death, but was later re-opened as the NPO Lavochkin to work on interplanetary probe designs for the Lunokhod program that successfully landed two rovers on the surface of the moon.