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Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev

1906 - 1989

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Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Я́ковлев; 1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1906 – 22 August 1989) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev has received more than 120,810 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev is the 85th most popular engineer (up from 88th in 2019), the 552nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 510th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev ranks 85 out of 323Before him are Vannevar Bush, Józef Bem, Henri Farman, Vasily Degtyaryov, Yuri Kondratyuk, and Karl von Terzaghi. After him are Harry Nyquist, Ivan Sechenov, Valdemar Poulsen, Mikhail Gurevich, Stephen Timoshenko, and Joseph M. Juran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev ranks 90Before him are Rezső Kasztner, Luis Federico Leloir, Primo Carnera, Jacques Becker, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Heinrich Schwarz. After him are Carol Reed, Joaquín Balaguer, Giuseppe Siri, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Louise Brooks, and Edmond Debeaumarché. Among people deceased in 1989, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev ranks 75Before him are Bernard Blier, Hans Hartung, Boris Skossyreff, Kazimierz Deyna, Victor French, and Pérez Prado. After him are Robert Mapplethorpe, Gaetano Scirea, Giuseppe Siri, R. D. Laing, Kateb Yacine, and Albert Bormann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev ranks 552 out of 3,262Before him are Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), and Konstantin Makovsky (1839). After him are Grigory Sokolov (1950), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ivan Sechenov (1829), and Viktor Tikhonov (1930).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev ranks 10Before him are Alexei Kosygin (1904), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), and Vasily Degtyaryov (1880). After him are Ivan Sechenov (1829), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Fedor Tokarev (1871), and Alexander Lodygin (1847).