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Nikolai Polikarpov

1892 - 1944

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1892 – 30 July 1944) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (Russian: ишак, lit. 'donkey' phonetically close to its Russian: И-16 or Russian: И-шестнадцать, romanized: I-shestnadtsat', lit. 'I-sixteen' designation) "Little Donkey" fighter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Polikarpov is the 126th most popular engineer (down from 100th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from Russia (down from 641st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Nikolai Polikarpov ranks 126 out of 389. Before him are Alexander Cunningham, Valdemar Poulsen, Yevgeny Dragunov, Ivan Sechenov, Rory Byrne, and Guenther Steiner. After him are Alexander Lippisch, Henryk Dembiński, W. Ross Ashby, Léon Charles Thévenin, Flaminio Bertoni, and Li Kui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Nikolai Polikarpov ranks 111. Before him are Richard Aldington, Ludwig Crüwell, Chen Gongbo, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Reiner Stahel, and Liu Bocheng. After him are William Powell, Alice Ball, Helmuth Plessner, Harry Dexter White, Stanisław Maczek, and Djuna Barnes. Among people deceased in 1944, Nikolai Polikarpov ranks 138. Before him are Paul Hazard, Agustín Barrios, Charles Diehl, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Dietrich Kraiss, and Regina Jonas. After him are Bella Rosenfeld, Musa Cälil, Israel Joshua Singer, Felix Nussbaum, Alberts Kviesis, and Andrey Sheptytsky.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Polikarpov ranks 797 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Pletnev (1957), Maria Bochkareva (1889), Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), Olga Rozanova (1886), Pavel Belyayev (1925), and Anatoly Berezovoy (1942). After him are Princess Olga Paley (1865), Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), Kuzma Minin (1616), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), and Afanasy Fet (1820).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Nikolai Polikarpov ranks 17. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Mikhail Mil (1909), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), and Ivan Sechenov (1829). After him are Georgy Shpagin (1897), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), and Alexey Sudayev (1912).

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