It is reported that, that at the age of 83 years died, Soviet and Russian aircraft, one of the legendary creators of the largest aircraft in the world AN-124 "Ruslan" and AN-225 "Mriya" Victor Tolmachev. Information about the passing of Victor Tolmachev leads Alexey Rogozin - the general director of the aviation im.Ilyushina.
Victor Tolmachev was born in August 1934 in the city of Kursk. He graduated with honors from Kharkov Aviation Institute (HAI), and 1964 he began work as a design engineer in the Design Antonov bureau. I went up the career ladder in the company of the chief of the brigade to the chief designer of aircraft "Ruslan" and "Mriya".
Besides the mentioned models of Victor Ilyich worked on the creation of most of the other models of the AN. 
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Victor Tolmachev was the Technical Director of the airline "Volga-Dnepr". A year later received the State Prize of Ukraine for the design of the An-124 "Ruslan".
Victor Ilyich upset by the deterioration of relations between Russia and Ukraine. No less upset by it and the complexity of the enterprise “Antonov”, to which he has devoted decades of his life. In recent years, the life of the legendary aircraft was seriously ill.
“military Review” It expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of Victor Tolmachev, whose name is forever inscribed in the history of domestic aviation.
