Qualla: Beriev https://qualla.com/beriev en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/7/s/beriev-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Beriev https://qualla.com/beriev Beriev: Introduction https://qualla.com/beriev/ Photo credit Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most aircraft factories sit beside runways. This one sits beside a sea. Since the 1930s, the Beriev design bureau has worked on the edge of the shallow, forgiving waters of the Sea of Azov in Taganrog, building machines that take off from waves as readily as from tarmac. Amphibians and flying boats are a stubborn specialty - awkward, heavy, and endlessly demanding to engineer - and few organizations anywhere have pursued them as doggedly as Beriev. The result is a place where the runway ends at the water, and the aircraft simply keep going.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/7/s/beriev-wp/ub7s-beriev-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Beriev: The Man Who Loved Water Wings https://qualla.com/beriev/ Photo credit Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0. The bureau bears the name of Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev, who founded it in Taganrog in 1934 as OKB-49. From the beginning its obsession was the seaplane - the marriage of aircraft and boat that lets a machine operate where there are no airfields at all. That focus never really wa...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/7/s/beriev-wp/ub7s-beriev-the-man-who-loved-water-wings.mp3 0:06 2 full Beriev: Evacuated and Reborn https://qualla.com/beriev/ Photo credit Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0. The bureau's history is bound up with the century's upheavals. In 1942, as war swept toward the region, the entire operation was moved east to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia to keep it beyond the reach of the fighting - a wholesale relocation of engineers, tooling, and knowledge across t...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/7/s/beriev-wp/ub7s-beriev-evacuated-and-reborn.mp3 0:06 3 full Beriev: Machines That Break Records https://qualla.com/beriev/ Photo credit Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0. The bureau's ambitions run to the extreme. Its A-40 Albatross, developed in the 1980s, is the largest amphibious aircraft in the world - a jet flying boat of genuinely startling scale. Pilots flying Beriev seaplanes have set an astonishing 228 world aviation records, each recogni...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/b/7/s/beriev-wp/ub7s-beriev-machines-that-break-records.mp3 0:06 4 full Beriev: Wings Against the Fire https://qualla.com/beriev/ Photo credit Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0. Beriev's most visible modern product answers a peaceful and urgent need. The Be-200 Altair, a large multipurpose amphibian first flown in 1998, can skim across a lake or the sea at speed, scoop water into its tanks in seconds, and drop it on a wildfire - then wheel around to do i...

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