MiG - Whats in a name?

[engarde]

Ive been doing a bit of russian study lately, trying to build up a working knowledge of the language.

interesting thing i seem to have come across in the well known name MiG.

we all know its for mikoyan and gurevich.

what i didnt realise, is that its just that.... M for mikoyan, and G for gurevich, with the i in the middle denoting the concept of "and".

so its literally m and g, reading as MiG.

i hope ive got that right, perhaps a native speaker might correct me if im wrong?

still, there you go, now you know.