Sergei Alexeyevich Kochierigin (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кочеригин) was born in 1893. In 1912 he entered the Peterburg Technological Institute. In 1917 he completed the theoretical aviation course at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute and became a military pilot. He began his work at the Shipbuilding Bureau and later went on to work as an instructor at the Naval Aviation School. At the end of the Civil War he continued his studies at the Zhukovski Military Aviation Academy.
He began his work in 1926 in the Nikolai Polikarpov collective. After his arrest in 1929 he went on to direct his KB From him. As a result of the new organization of Soviet aircraft production, the KB was transferred to the “Aviorabotnik” factory named after Menzhinski. In 1933 he became head of the TsKB brigade at this factory.
In 1937 he directed the production under license of the Vultee V-11 and from 1939 he was appointed builder of the OBK-156, attached to the Factory of the same name.
Since 1938 his work group has developed more than 20 projects, mainly fighters, assault planes and light bombers. Although some were relatively successful, most of their designs did not make it past the drawing board, which was mainly due to the fact that, unlike other OKBs of the time, their construction bureau lacked a productive base. Due to the fact that its bureau was integrated within the TsKB, most of its creations present the numbering of the TsKB in parallel with its initials.
The Kochierigin construction bureau was dissolved in 1942. From that date he became the general editor of the NKAP Scientific and Technical Bureau publication.
He died in Moscow in 1958.
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