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Vasily Mishin

1917 - 2001

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Vasily Pavlovich Mishin (Russian: Василий Павлович Мишин; 18 January 1917 – 10 October 2001) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet space program that took place under his management. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Mishin is the 200th most popular engineer (down from 176th in 2019), the 1,201st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,082nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vasily Mishin ranks 200 out of 389. Before him are Alexey Sudayev, Sergei Tumansky, Philippe LeBon, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Alexander Lodygin, and François Hennebique. After him are Adolphe Alphand, Eugene Stoner, Arthur Morin, Evgeny Paton, Franz Grashof, and William Playfair.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Vasily Mishin ranks 171. Before him are Philipp von Boeselager, Armando Trovajoli, Văn Tiến Dũng, Dabbs Greer, Suzy Delair, and Ernst von Glasersfeld. After him are Mouloud Mammeri, Bertil Nordahl, Lena Horne, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Red Auerbach, and Musine Kokalari. Among people deceased in 2001, Vasily Mishin ranks 153. Before him are Alexey Maresyev, Chuck Schuldiner, Mike Mentzer, David Lewis, Ri Kun-mo, and Aldo Olivieri. After him are David Kipiani, Gregory Corso, Salahuddin of Selangor, Herbert Ross, Anne Haney, and Davorin Popović.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 1,201 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikita Simonyan (1926), Sergei Korsakoff (1854), Mikhail Petrashevsky (1821), Evgraf Fedorov (1853), Nadezhda Durova (1783), and Dmitry Milyutin (1816). After him are Nikolai Noskov (1956), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), Eino Rahja (1885), and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 25. Before him are Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Alexey Sudayev (1912), and Alexander Lodygin (1847). After him are Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Sergey Chaplygin (1869), and Mikhail Simonov (1929).

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