Petro Vasylovych Balabuyev (Ukrainian: Петро Васильович Балабуєв, 23 March 1931 in Valuisk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 17 May 2007) was a Ukrainian aircraft designer, engineer, Doctor of Engineering (1988), professor, chief designer of the Antonov Design Bureau (1984 – May 2005), Hero of Socialist Labour and a Hero of Ukraine, head of Kyiv-based Antonov Aircraft for 20 years.

Petro Balabuyev was born on 23 May 1931, on a Valuysk farm in the Luhansk region.

He graduated from the Kharkov Aviation Institute[1] in 1954 with qualifications of an aircraft mechanical engineer.

- Dream) (the largest operational aircraft in the world - destroyed after Russian attack).

He developed scientific bases of design and practical implementation of supercritical wing profiles into the design of heavy transport aircraft.