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Georgy Babakin

1914 - 1971

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Georgy Nikolayevich Babakin (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Баба́кин; 13 November 1914 – 3 August 1971) was a Soviet engineer working in the space program. He was Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1965 until his death. Babakin's early career was spent in radio engineering, starting with a job at the Moscow telephone company in 1930, working on an urban radio network. From 1943 to 1949, Babakin worked on radar targeting systems at the Institute of Automation (VSNITO), where he became its chief engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Babakin is the 306th most popular engineer (down from 149th in 2019), the 1,950th most popular biography from Russia (down from 925th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Georgy Babakin ranks 306 out of 389Before him are Georgy Langemak, Percy Hobart, Boris Lisunov, Hesham Qandil, Kenneth Nichols, and Robert W. Paul. After him are John R. Pierce, Mal Evans, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Robert H. Dennard, Peter Schreyer, and K. Eric Drexler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Georgy Babakin ranks 320Before him are Fiorenzo Marini, Qin Jiwei, David Carstens, Frankie Manning, Amelia Bence, and Sven Fahlman. After him are John Hersey, Alessandro Frigerio, Claude Mauriac, David Wayne, Zdeněk Škrland, and Jan de Hartog. Among people deceased in 1971, Georgy Babakin ranks 194Before him are Michael Rennie, Gerhard von Rad, Hjalmar Andersson, Carl Blegen, Joseph Pletincx, and Hank Mann. After him are Bebe Daniels, Billy Gilbert, Werner Peters, Victor Leemans, Tor Johnson, and Lauro Amadò.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Babakin ranks 1,950 out of 3,761Before him are Sergei Grinkov (1967), Alexander Maltsev (1949), Valeri Vasiliev (1949), Viktoriya Tokareva (1937), Pavel Kadochnikov (1915), and Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925). After him are Yekaterina Vasilyeva (1945), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), Dmitry Rogozin (1963), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), Andrey Rublev (1997), and Galina Volchek (1933).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Georgy Babakin ranks 38Before him are Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Nikolay Makarov (1914), Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900), Viktor Kozin (1953), and Boris Lisunov (1898). After him are Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Marina Popovich (1931), Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Pavel Solovyov (1917), Vladimir Barmin (1909), and Ivan Artobolevsky (1905).