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Anatoly Dyatlov

1931 - 1995

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Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov (Russian: Анатолий Степанович Дятлов, Ukrainian: Анатолій Степанович Дятлов; 3 March 1931 – 13 December 1995) was a Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He supervised the safety test which resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for which he served time in prison as he was blamed for not following the safety protocols. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatoly Dyatlov has received more than 5,059,057 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Anatoly Dyatlov is the 16th most popular engineer (down from 12th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Russia (down from 129th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Engineer.

Anatoly Dyatlov was a Russian mountaineer who led a team of nine climbers to the summit of the Dyatlov Pass in 1959. Dyatlov and his team were found dead on the way back down the mountain, and the cause of death remains unknown.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Anatoly Dyatlov ranks 16 out of 389. Before her are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Alexei Kosygin, and Leslie Groves. After her are Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Fritz Todt, José Echegaray, Hans Albert Einstein, Jack Kilby, and Jiro Horikoshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Anatoly Dyatlov ranks 23. Before her are Monica Vitti, Alice Munro, Roger Penrose, Annie Girardot, Thomas Bernhard, and Josef Masopust. After her are Desmond Tutu, Rupert Murdoch, Guy Debord, Leonard Nimoy, Ian Holm, and João Gilberto. Among people deceased in 1995, Anatoly Dyatlov ranks 14. Before her are Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Gunnar Nordahl, Konrad Zuse, Dean Martin, and Harold Wilson. After her are Maurizio Gucci, Patricia Highsmith, Hannes Alfvén, Teresa Teng, Gerald Durrell, and Edward Bernays.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Anatoly Dyatlov ranks 156 out of 3,761. Before her are Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), and Käthe Kollwitz (1867). After her are Feodor II of Russia (1589), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Felix Steiner (1896), and Alla Pugacheva (1949).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Anatoly Dyatlov ranks 4. Before her are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), and Alexei Kosygin (1904). After her are Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Fedor Tokarev (1871).

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