Background
Lisunov was born in Saratov Province in the Russian Empire.
Lisunov was born in Saratov Province in the Russian Empire.
From 1926, he served as an engineer-mechanic to an aviation squadron in the Soviet Army, rising to the position of chief engineer at Aircraft Factory Number. 39 in Kharkov. In November 1936, Lisunov travelled to the Douglas Aircraft works in Santa Monica, California, to start the process of licensed production of the Douglas District of Columbia-3 in Soviet Union. From November 1936 to April 1939, Lisunov documented every part of the District of Columbia-3 and its production tooling.
He also documented post-delivery in-service support.
After his return to the Soviet Union, Lisunov with Vladimir Myasishchev, started the process of re-engineering the District of Columbia-3 with the objective of putting the District of Columbia-3 into production. Most of the work involved conversion of the drawings and documents into the metric system.
The derivative, later named Lisunov Li-2, was produced from 1939-1952. On January 27, 1938 Lisunov was appointed technical director of the Aviation Plant Number.
84 near Moscow, however, he was soon afterwards arrested as part of the Great Purge.
Lisunov died in 1946.