31 December 1892] – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan.

Born to a Jewish family[1] his father was a winery mechanic in the small township of Rubanshchina (Kursk region in Russia).

In 1925 he graduated from the Aviation faculty of Kharkiv Technological Institute and worked as an engineer of the state company "Heat and Power".

[2] In 1940 Mikoyan and Gurevich designed and built the high-altitude MiG-1 fighter plane, starting from a project partially developed by Polikarpov's team.

The last model Gurevich worked on was the MiG-25 interceptor, which is among the fastest military aircraft ever to enter service.