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Georgy Shpagin

1897 - 1952

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Georgy Semyonovich Shpagin (Russian: Георгий Семёнович Шпагин; 17 April 1897 – 6 February 1952) was a Soviet weapons designer. He is best-known as the creator of the PPSh-41, a submachine gun that saw widespread use by the Red Army on the Eastern Front. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Shpagin is the 133rd most popular engineer (down from 117th in 2019), the 856th most popular biography from Russia (down from 729th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Georgy Shpagin ranks 133 out of 389. Before him are Alexander Lippisch, Henryk Dembiński, W. Ross Ashby, Léon Charles Thévenin, Flaminio Bertoni, and Li Kui. After him are Christian Otto Mohr, Claude Dornier, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Johan August Brinell, Joseph M. Juran, and Alexandre Darracq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Georgy Shpagin ranks 132. Before him are Joseph Darnand, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Eric Knight, Elisabeth Bergner, and Bulbul. After him are Agustín Lara, Georgios Grivas, Wilhelm Falley, Lazare Ponticelli, Edith Head, and Zhang Guotao. Among people deceased in 1952, Georgy Shpagin ranks 74. Before him are Pierre Renoir, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Vladimír Clementis, Władysław Strzemiński, Vasili Eroshenko, and Hiranuma Kiichirō. After him are Krystyna Skarbek, Thomas Hicks, Vladimir Albitsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, Theodoros Pangalos, and Sameera Moussa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Shpagin ranks 856 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Yefremov (1908), Boris Shakhlin (1932), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Vasily Petrov (1917), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), and Edgar Froese (1944). After him are Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Vladimir Kokovtsov (1853), Oleg Tabakov (1935), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), and Volin (1882).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Georgy Shpagin ranks 18. Before him are Fedor Tokarev (1871), Mikhail Mil (1909), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Ivan Sechenov (1829), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892). After him are Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Alexey Sudayev (1912), and Alexander Lodygin (1847).

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