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Yuri Artsutanov

1929 - 2019

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Yuri Nikolaevich Artsutanov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Арцута́нов; 5 October 1929 – 1 January 2019) was a Russian engineer born in Leningrad. He was one of the pioneers of the idea of a space elevator. The February issue of the ISEC Newsletter is devoted to his life and place in history and features reminisces and photographs from his colleagues in the West, including his attendance at the 2010 ISEC Space Elevator conference. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Artsutanov is the 320th most popular engineer (down from 214th in 2019), the 2,086th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,283rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yuri Artsutanov ranks 320 out of 389. Before him are Marina Popovich, Geoffrey de Havilland, Peter Chen, Sidney Darlington, Charles Combes, and Preston Tucker. After him are Gordon Bell, Arthur E. Kennelly, Pavel Solovyov, Mario Theissen, Louis Armand, and Leon O. Chua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yuri Artsutanov ranks 442. Before him are Bruno Belin, Pat Crawford Brown, Marcelino dos Santos, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Amar Bose, and Wanda Wiłkomirska. After him are William Fields, Olga Tass, Kazimierz Kutz, Ivor Allchurch, James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. Among people deceased in 2019, Yuri Artsutanov ranks 425. Before him are Francisco Toledo, Kornel Morawiecki, Judith Krantz, Pat Crawford Brown, Andrea Pollack, and Bernard Lietaer. After him are Manfred Stolpe, Kálmán Ihász, Claes Andersson, Gianfranco Leoncini, Martin Lauer, and Eduardo Nascimento.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Artsutanov ranks 2,086 out of 3,761. Before him are Georgy Ushakov (1901), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), Olga Bondarenko (1960), Yelena Safonova (1956), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832), and Dmitri Radchenko (1970). After him are Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev (1952), Alexei Kasatonov (1959), Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Aleksandr Laveykin (1951), Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946), and Olga Knyazeva (1954).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Yuri Artsutanov ranks 41. Before him are Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900), Viktor Kozin (1953), Boris Lisunov (1898), Georgy Babakin (1914), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), and Marina Popovich (1931). After him are Pavel Solovyov (1917), Vladimir Barmin (1909), Ivan Artobolevsky (1905), and Anna Kikina (1984).

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