Васи́ль Олексі́йович Степа́нченко; March 22, 1914 — September 7, 1995, Kyiv) — Soviet Ukrainian aircraft designer, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of 12 state awards, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine.
[1] Vasyl Stepanchenko was born on March 22, 1914, in a large Ukrainian family in the village of Vesele, Kursk Province, Russian Empire (now a village on Russia).
In 1949–1954 he was the chief engineer of the Omsk Aircraft Plant, where serial production of the first IL-28 jet bombers was established at that time.
Under his leadership, the plant was reconstructed, caused by the preparation for a serial production of a new An-24 aircraft.
In 1965 he was appointed the general director of the Kyiv Aircraft Plant, which he ruled until 1979.