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Sergei Korolev

1906 - 1966

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space, Voskhod 1, and the first person, Alexei Leonov, to conduct a spacewalk. Although Korolev trained as an aircraft designer, his greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. Arrested on a false official charge as a "member of an anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organization" (which would later be reduced to "saboteur of military technology"), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years, including a few months in a Kolyma labour camp. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Korolev is the 14th most popular engineer (down from 9th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Sergei Korolev was a Russian engineer and one of the key figures in the Soviet space program. He is most famous for being the chief designer of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, and the first human-made object to orbit the Earth.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sergei Korolev ranks 14 out of 389. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexei Kosygin, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and José Echegaray. After him are André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Umberto Nobile, Fritz Todt, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Jack Kilby.

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Among people born in 1906, Sergei Korolev ranks 33. Before him are Hans Bethe, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Ilse Koch. After him are Hassan al-Banna, Hermann Fegelein, Léon Degrelle, Ed Gein, Josef Kramer, and Clyde Tombaugh. Among people deceased in 1966, Sergei Korolev ranks 13. Before him are Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina. After him are Frits Zernike, George de Hevesy, Cemal Gürsel, Felix Steiner, Ken Miles, and L. E. J. Brouwer.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Korolev ranks 53 out of 1,365. Before him are Joseph Roth (1894), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Vladimir Horowitz (1903). After him are Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Moshe Sharett (1894), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Georges Charpak (1924), and Levi Eshkol (1895).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Sergei Korolev ranks 1. After him are Valentin Glushko (1908), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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