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Yuri Kondratyuk

1897 - 1942

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Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Кондратюк; Ukrainian: Юрій Васильович Кондратюк), real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (Russian: Александр Игнатьевич Шаргей; Ukrainian: Олександр Гнатович Шаргей; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Kondratyuk is the 66th most popular engineer (up from 90th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 227th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 66 out of 389. Before him are Masaru Ibuka, Colin Chapman, Henry Gantt, Hans Kammler, Mikhail Gurevich, and Adam Czerniaków. After him are Charles George Gordon, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Hidesaburō Ueno, Jack Parsons, Arthur Scherbius, and Moshe Arens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 69. Before him are Theodor Busse, Ngô Đình Thục, Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, Adolf Heusinger, and Sepp Herberger. After him are Hans Baur, Marcel Petiot, Karl Löwith, Bernard Lyot, Sidney Bechet, and Philippe Soupault. Among people deceased in 1942, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 50. Before him are Leopold Mandić, Lauri Kristian Relander, Daniil Kharms, Séraphine Louis, Grant Wood, and Adam Czerniaków. After him are Herschel Grynszpan, Ivan Bilibin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Henri de Baillet-Latour, and Thorvald Stauning.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 175 out of 1,365. Before him are Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Maria Prymachenko (1908), Pavel Popovich (1930), and Jacob Frank (1726). After him are Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), Otto Preminger (1905), David Bronstein (1924), and Efim Bogoljubov (1889).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 3. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906), and Valentin Glushko (1908). After him are Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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