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Oleg Antonov

1906 - 1984

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Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (7 February 1906 – 4 April 1984) was a Soviet aeroplane designer. He founded the Research and Design Bureau No. 153 (OKB-153) in Novosibirsk, which was moved to Ukraine in 1952 and is now called Antonov in his honor. Antonov designed a number of Soviet aeroplanes (such as the Antonov An-2, Antonov An-12) and numerous gliders for both civilian and military use. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oleg Antonov is the 84th most popular inventor (down from 70th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Russia (down from 227th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Inventor.

Oleg Antonov is most famous for his Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oleg Antonov ranks 84 out of 426. Before him are John Browning, Alois Senefelder, Rowland Hill, Charles K. Kao, Jacques de Vaucanson, and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. After him are Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Raymond Damadian, Joseph Pilates, Alphonse Bertillon, and Henri Coandă.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Oleg Antonov ranks 56. Before him are Empress Wanrong, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr., Marie José of Belgium, Hans Asperger, and Philip Johnson. After him are Giuseppe Siri, Robert E. Howard, Marcel Carné, Edmond Debeaumarché, Bugsy Siegel, and Luis Federico Leloir. Among people deceased in 1984, Oleg Antonov ranks 32. Before him are Karl Wolff, Anna Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, Lionel Robbins, Jiro Miyake, and Stanley Milgram. After him are Philippe Ariès, Vincent J. McMahon, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Motoo Tatsuhara, Viktor Shklovsky, and Karl Rahner.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Antonov ranks 288 out of 3,761. Before him are Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), and Nikolay Semyonov (1896). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), and Natalya Naryshkina (1651).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Oleg Antonov ranks 2. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896). After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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