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Mikhail Tikhonravov

1900 - 1974

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Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov (29 July 1900 – 3 March 1974) was a Soviet engineer who was a pioneer of spacecraft design and rocketry. Mikhail Tikhonravov was born in Vladimir, Russia. He attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy from 1922 to 1925, where he was exposed to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's ideas of spaceflight. After graduation he worked in several aircraft industries and was engaged in developing gliders. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Tikhonravov is the 279th most popular engineer (down from 278th in 2019), the 1,702nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,770th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 279 out of 389. Before him are Frances Spence, Jean-Augustin Barral, Erwin Komenda, Hendrik Wade Bode, Arkhip Lyulka, and Émile Lemoine. After him are Rudy Van Gelder, Boris Chertok, Oskar von Miller, Pierre-François Bouchard, Eugene Polley, and Friedrich L. Bauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 223. Before him are Manuel Plaza, Natalio Perinetti, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Mildred Gillars, Marie Bell, and Elizabeth Goudge. After him are Christian Matras, Clarence Pinkston, Itzik Feffer, Alice Neel, César Espinoza, and Mikhail Lavrentyev. Among people deceased in 1974, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 175. Before him are Ned Maddrell, Françoise Rosay, Adolph Gottlieb, Alfred Keller, Sergey Lebedev, and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. After him are Alexander P. de Seversky, Mirdza Ķempe, Pedro Benítez, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Konrad Frey, and Béla Illés.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 1,702 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), Grigory Leps (1962), Alexander Pichushkin (1974), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Yunus-bek Yevkurov (1963), and Petr Aven (1955). After him are Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Yakov Sannikov (1780), Marina Ladynina (1908), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Kirill Petrenko (1972), and Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 35. Before him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Sergey Chaplygin (1869), Mikhail Simonov (1929), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Mikulin (1895), and Nikolay Makarov (1914). After him are Viktor Kozin (1953), Boris Lisunov (1898), Georgy Babakin (1914), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Marina Popovich (1931), and Yuri Artsutanov (1929).

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