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Yevgeny Dragunov

1920 - 1991

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Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (Russian: Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в; February 20, 1920 – August 4, 1991) was a Soviet weapons designer, best known for his role in helping invent the semi-automatic rifle bearing his name, the Dragunov sniper rifle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Dragunov is the 122nd most popular engineer (down from 108th in 2019), the 756th most popular biography from Russia (down from 685th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 122 out of 389. Before him are Eupalinos, Erik Dahlbergh, Henry Darcy, Borys Paton, Alexander Cunningham, and Valdemar Poulsen. After him are Ivan Sechenov, Rory Byrne, Guenther Steiner, Nikolai Polikarpov, Alexander Lippisch, and Henryk Dembiński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 137. Before him are Saul Bass, Eva Dahlbeck, Miguel Delibes, Henrietta Lacks, Marie Tharp, and Andrew V. McLaglen. After him are Richard Adams, Thomas Gold, Dick Francis, Alf Ramsey, John Maynard Smith, and Paik Sun-yup. Among people deceased in 1991, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 82. Before him are Joachim Kroll, Héctor Rial, Pedro Arrupe, Cassandra Harris, Brad Davis, and Jean Bruller. After him are Rudolf Serkin, Shintaro Abe, Ho Jong-suk, Berenice Abbott, Kevin Peter Hall, and Vasko Popa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 756 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), and Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930). After him are Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Boris Gromov (1943), Talabuga (1300), Yury Grigorovich (1927), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), and Vera Figner (1852).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 15. Before him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Mikhail Mil (1909), and Sergei Khrushchev (1935). After him are Ivan Sechenov (1829), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Mikhail Yangel (1911), and Alexei Tupolev (1925).

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