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Viktor Belenko

1947 - 2023

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Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Soviet-born American aerospace engineer and pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Belenko is the 74th most popular engineer (down from 56th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Russia (down from 414th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Viktor Belenko ranks 74 out of 389. Before him are Edward A. Murphy Jr., Hidesaburō Ueno, Jack Parsons, Arthur Scherbius, Moshe Arens, and Alexander Wienerberger. After him are Marcel Dassault, Walter Dornberger, Józef Bem, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Adrian Newey, and Gustaf de Laval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Viktor Belenko ranks 124. Before him are Jan Garbarek, F. R. David, Mario Aurelio Poli, Saskia Sassen, Jerzy Popiełuszko, and Roy Hodgson. After him are James Patterson, Mumtaz, Wes Studi, Wilton Daniel Gregory, Joe Mantegna, and Cozy Powell. Among people deceased in 2023, Viktor Belenko ranks 89. Before him are Leiji Matsumoto, Otar Iosseliani, Francis Lee, Ahmed Qurei, Karel Schwarzenberg, and John B. Goodenough. After him are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Françoise Gilot, Jan Jongbloed, Gianni Vattimo, Elliott Erwitt, and Federico Bahamontes.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 477 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Vasily Surikov (1848), Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Valery Bykovsky (1934), and Valentin Pavlov (1937). After him are Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Filipp Golikov (1900), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), and Shamil Basayev (1965).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 8. Before him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), and Mikhail Gurevich (1892). After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Mikhail Mil (1909), and Sergei Khrushchev (1935).

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