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Alexander Mozhaysky

1825 - 1890

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Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaysky (also transliterated as Mozhayski, Mozhayskii and Mozhayskiy; Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Можа́йский) (March 21 [O.S. March 9] 1825 – 1 April [O.S. March 20] 1890) was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, an aviation pioneer, and a researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Mozhaysky is the 177th most popular engineer (down from 169th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Finland (down from 119th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Mozhaysky ranks 177 out of 389Before him are Riccardo Morandi, Gustave Whitehead, Louis Charles Breguet, Hanns Hörbiger, Alphonse Pénaud, and Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov. After him are Gérard Larrousse, John Smeaton, Ma Jun, Kerim Kerimov, Gotthilf Hagen, and Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Alexander Mozhaysky ranks 44Before him are Iwakura Tomomi, Camilo Castelo Branco, Julius Oppert, Friedrich Bayer, Giovanni Fattori, and Bernardo Guimarães. After him are Jules Barbier, Benedetto Cairoli, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Simeon Bavier, Ferdinand von Mueller, and Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1890, Alexander Mozhaysky ranks 38Before him are Ivan Mažuranić, Camilo Castelo Branco, Vasile Alecsandri, Ignaz von Döllinger, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, and Franz Lachner. After him are Octave Feuillet, Alexander Parkes, Jacques-Louis Soret, John C. Frémont, Władysław Taczanowski, and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Alexander Mozhaysky ranks 130 out of 751Before him are Martti Miettunen (1907), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Jonni Myyrä (1892), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Kaarlo Castrén (1860), and Sami Hyypiä (1973). After him are Lauri Virtanen (1904), Rafael Paasio (1903), Mauritz Stiller (1883), Reino Ragnar Lehto (1898), Christian von Steven (1781), and Lydia Wideman (1920).

Among ENGINEERS In Finland

Among engineers born in Finland, Alexander Mozhaysky ranks 1