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Vasily Degtyaryov

1880 - 1949

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Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (Russian: Васи́лий Алексе́евич Дегтярёв; 2 January 1880, Tula – 16 January 1949, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian engineer who specialized in weapons design. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Degtyaryov is the 97th most popular engineer (up from 98th in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Russia (up from 639th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vasily Degtyaryov ranks 97 out of 389. Before him are Patrick Head, Karl von Terzaghi, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Robert Stephenson, George Cayley, and Donald Wills Douglas Sr.. After him are Paul Cornu, Hans Ledwinka, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, André Courrèges, Jimmy Doolittle, and Stephen Timoshenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Vasily Degtyaryov ranks 71. Before him are Yōsuke Matsuoka, Abram Ioffe, Robert Stolz, Jacques Thibaud, Carl Van Vechten, and Charles Huntziger. After him are Alexander Grin, Christabel Pankhurst, Una O'Connor, Tod Browning, Harold Rainsford Stark, and Leon Rupnik. Among people deceased in 1949, Vasily Degtyaryov ranks 56. Before him are Alice Bailey, Husni al-Za'im, Wilhelm Adam, Richard Dix, Maurice Blondel, and Vítězslav Novák. After him are Prince Harald of Denmark, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Momčilo Tapavica, Walter Buch, Hanns Albin Rauter, and Alfred J. Lotka.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Degtyaryov ranks 626 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladislav Tretiak (1952), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Andrey Korotayev (1961), Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691), Jean Béraud (1849), and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864). After him are Tode Mongke (1282), Lilya Brik (1891), Valery Gergiev (1953), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vasily Degtyaryov ranks 10. Before him are Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Viktor Belenko (1947), and Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847). After him are Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Mikhail Mil (1909), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), and Ivan Sechenov (1829).

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