Matus Bisnovat

Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat (Russian: Матус Рувимович Бисноват, 23 October 1905, Nikopol – 8 November 1977) was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer.

In 1938, he headed a research team in Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute TsAGI, Zhukovsky, where several high-speed experimental airplanes were developed, the SK-1, SK-2 and SK-3.

In 1948, with engine designer Aleksei Isaev he worked on the supersonic aircraft "Bisnovat 5".

Bisnovat fell prey to a 1953 antisemitic campaign against "cosmopolitanism" instigated by rivals of Lavrentiy Beria.

In 1954 Bisnovat became head of design bureau KB Molniya, where he oversaw the development of air-to-air missiles R-40, R-60 and R-73.