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Valentin Glushko

1908 - 1989

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Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валентин Петрович Глушко; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989. Glushko served as a main designer of rocket engines in the Soviet program during the heights of the Space Race between United States and the Soviet Union, and was the proponent of cybernetics within the space program. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valentin Glushko is the 58th most popular engineer (up from 62nd in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 158th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Valentin Glushko was a Russian rocket engineer and the head of the Soviet space program for many years. He is most famous for his work on the Soviet Union's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Valentin Glushko ranks 58 out of 389. Before him are Ernst Heinkel, Godfrey Hounsfield, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, John Ambrose Fleming, and Kurt Gerstein. After him are Su Song, Masaru Ibuka, Colin Chapman, Henry Gantt, Hans Kammler, and Mikhail Gurevich.

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Among people born in 1908, Valentin Glushko ranks 63. Before him are John Kenneth Galbraith, Dmitry Ustinov, Giovanni Leone, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Amintore Fanfani. After him are Victor Ambartsumian, Masaru Ibuka, Saizo Saito, Maria Prymachenko, Robert Merle, and Bjarni Benediktsson. Among people deceased in 1989, Valentin Glushko ranks 53. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Gaetano Scirea, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Guy Williams, Irving Stone, and Jerzy Kukuczka. After him are Irving Berlin, John Payne, Boris Skossyreff, Graham Chapman, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and Franklin J. Schaffner.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Glushko ranks 160 out of 1,365. Before him are Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Serge Lifar (1904), Leo Kanner (1894), Boris Savinkov (1879), Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), and Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842). After him are Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Shvarn (1230), and Ida Rubinstein (1883).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Valentin Glushko ranks 2. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906). After him are 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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