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Mikhail Simonov

1929 - 2011

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Mikhail Petrovich Simonov (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Си́монов; 19 October 1929 – 4 March 2011) was a Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber, the Soviet Union's answer to the American F-15 Eagle. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Simonov coordinated the Su-27's sale to foreign governments, providing badly needed hard currency to the Russian government. In recognition of his achievements, he was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 1999. Simonov was born in Rostov-on-Don. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Simonov is the 255th most popular engineer (up from 267th in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,658th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Mikhail Simonov ranks 255 out of 389. Before him are Hans Moravec, Léon Serpollet, Brian McGuire, Waloddi Weibull, Louis Pouzin, and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne. After him are Marcel Deprez, Walter Thiel, Ransom E. Olds, Gioacchino Colombo, Sam Eyde, and Nikolay Kamov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Mikhail Simonov ranks 315. Before him are Burhan Sargun, Cordelia Edvardson, Horst Frank, André Darrigade, Jacques Plante, and Walter Berry. After him are Costa Pereira, Sunil Dutt, Petr Eben, Eugène Parlier, Richard Lewontin, and Henri Pousseur. Among people deceased in 2011, Mikhail Simonov ranks 246. Before him are Luiz Bueno, Ida Fink, Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Robert Ettinger, Mario Echandi Jiménez, and Kenneth Mars. After him are Héctor Núñez, Dorian Gray, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Peter Post, Hans Apel, and Henri Chammartin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Simonov ranks 1,539 out of 3,761. Before him are Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Marietta Shaginyan (1888), Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Hadiya Davletshina (1905), and Boris Morukov (1950). After him are Galimzyan Khusainov (1937), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Vera Glagoleva (1956), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), and Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Simonov ranks 31. Before him are Vasily Mishin (1917), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), and Sergey Chaplygin (1869). After him are Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Nikolay Makarov (1914), Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900), Viktor Kozin (1953), and Boris Lisunov (1898).

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