The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Azerbaijan
This page contains a list of the greatest Azerbaijani Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 323 Engineers, 1 of which were born in Azerbaijan. This makes Azerbaijan the birth place of the 36th most number of Engineers behind Brazil and Croatia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Azerbaijani Engineers of all time. This list of famous Azerbaijani Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kerim Kerimov (1917 - 2003)
With an HPI of 53.53, Kerim Kerimov is the most famous Azerbaijani Engineer. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Lieutenant General Kerim Abbasali oghlu Kerimov (Azerbaijani: Kərim Abbasəli oğlu Kərimov, Russian: Керим Аббас-Алиевич Керимов; November 14, 1917 – March 29, 2003) was a Soviet and Russian engineer of Azerbaijani ethnicity and a general in Soviet Army, who is regarded as one of the key scientists and founders in the Soviet Union's space program, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program. Despite his prominent role, his identity was kept a secret from the public for most of his career. He was part of the Sputnik 1 team in 1957. As a representative of the Strategic Rocket Forces, he was a member of the State Commission on the Vostok programme, which led to the Vostok 1 flight. In the mid-1960s he was promoted to a leadership role within the space program and oversaw the successful space docking of Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 in 1967. Kerimov served as a project manager for the Salyut series space stations in the 1970s and served as a consultant to the Mir project later in his career.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as engineers born between 1917 and 1917. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased engineers include Kerim Kerimov.
