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Leonid Toptunov

1960 - 1986

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Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov (Ukrainian: Леонід Федорович Топтунов, Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet nuclear engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Toptunov is the 293rd most popular engineer, the 768th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Leonid Toptunov was a Soviet senior nuclear engineer best known for his role in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, where he was the shift supervisor during the ill-fated safety test that led to the reactor explosion. His actions and decisions during the incident have been the subject of extensive analysis regarding the disaster's causes.

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Among engineers, Leonid Toptunov ranks 293 out of 389. Before him are Christopher Cockerell, Wilhelm Nusselt, Fulgence Bienvenüe, Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, William Froude, and Hideo Itokawa. After him are Burt Rutan, Viktor Kozin, Joseph Bazalgette, Ron Tauranac, Markus Reiner, and Frederick Terman.

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Among people born in 1960, Leonid Toptunov ranks 292. Before him are Kyle Gass, Abu Qatada, Michèle Laroque, Alan Krueger, Abel Resino, and Alexandre Czerniatynski. After him are Leland Orser, Maho Shimizu, Katsuyoshi Shinto, Jeffrey Eugenides, Seth Godin, and Anders Hejlsberg. Among people deceased in 1986, Leonid Toptunov ranks 215. Before him are Lothar Bolz, Paul Costello, Yasuzo Masumura, Anton Janda, Thad Jones, and Carlo Biagi. After him are Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Guillermo Eizaguirre, Constantin Stanciu, Bert Schneider, Tsendiin Damdinsüren, and Alfonso Thiele.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Toptunov ranks 768 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Buryak (1953), Hermann Kesten (1900), Ruslan Khomchak (1967), Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), Eduard Bagritsky (1895), and Alexander Brailowsky (1896). After him are David Cherkassky (1931), Georg Marco (1863), Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876), Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), Oksana Shvets (1955), and Nikolai Gubenko (1941).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Leonid Toptunov ranks 8. Before him are Valentin Glushko (1908), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), and Arkhip Lyulka (1908). After him are Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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