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Alexei Kosygin

1904 - 1980

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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (21 February [O.S. 8 February] 1904–18 December 1980) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1964 to 1980 and initially led the Soviet Union as part of a triumvirate in the mid-to-late 1960s. Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg in 1904 to a Russian working-class family. He was conscripted into the labour army during the Russian Civil War, and after the Red Army's demobilization in 1921, he worked in Siberia as an industrial manager. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexei Kosygin is the 11th most popular engineer (up from 14th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Russia (up from 146th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Engineer.

Alexei Kosygin was a Soviet politician and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, the head of government, from 1964 to 1980. He helped manage the Soviet Union's economy during the Cold War.

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Among engineers, Alexei Kosygin ranks 11 out of 389. Before him are Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. After him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, José Echegaray, Sergei Korolev, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, and Umberto Nobile.

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Among people born in 1904, Alexei Kosygin ranks 20. Before him are George Gamow, Johnny Weissmuller, Pavel Cherenkov, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, and Graham Greene. After him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, Odilo Globočnik, René Lacoste, John Hicks, and Joan Crawford. Among people deceased in 1980, Alexei Kosygin ranks 17. Before him are Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Henry Miller, and Joe Dassin. After him are William Howard Stein, Gianni Rodari, Vladimir Vysotsky, Tamara de Lempicka, Romain Gary, and Marshall McLuhan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexei Kosygin ranks 135 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), and Valery Legasov (1936). After him are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexei Rykov (1881), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Ivan V of Russia (1666), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), and Pyotr Bagration (1765).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Alexei Kosygin ranks 3. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857). After him are Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Fedor Tokarev (1871).

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