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Mikhail Tikhonravov

1900 - 1974

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Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov (July 29, 1900 – March 3, 1974) was a Soviet engineer who was a pioneer of spacecraft design and rocketry. Mikhail Tikhonravov was born in Vladimir, Russia. He attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy from 1922 to 1925, where he was exposed to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's ideas of spaceflight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Tikhonravov has received more than 52,419 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mikhail Tikhonravov is the 278th most popular engineer (down from 276th in 2019), the 1,770th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,742nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 278 out of 389. Before him are Fulgence Bienvenüe, Louis Pouzin, Preston Tucker, Robert W. Paul, Gerhard Fieseler, and Rudy Van Gelder. After him are Eilmer of Malmesbury, Arthur Rudolph, Ransom E. Olds, Pierre-François Bouchard, Georgy Langemak, and Hideo Itokawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 217. Before him are Taylor Caldwell, Gottfried Haberler, Pedro Ochoa, César Espinoza, Ivan Kozlovsky, and Charles Jewtraw. After him are Irene Guest, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Alan Helffrich, Ludovico Bidoglio, and Zinaida Aksentyeva. Among people deceased in 1974, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 173. Before him are Ali Mansur, Fred Kelly, Lily Kronberger, Francis Blanche, Franz Wagner, and Jacqueline Susann. After him are Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Edward Platt, George Van Biesbroeck, Fernand de Montigny, Théodore Nouwens, and Eduardo Santos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 1,770 out of 3,761. Before him are Suleyman Kerimov (1966), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Aristarkh Lentulov (1882), Vasili Kuznetsov (1932), and Lev Durov (1931). After him are Maria Andreyeva (1868), Rostislav Plyatt (1908), Fedor Ozep (1895), Leon Benois (1856), Mukhu Aliyev (1940), and Anatoly Alyabyev (1951).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 38. Before him are Alexander Mikulin (1895), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Sergey Chaplygin (1869), and Mikhail Simonov (1929). After him are Pavel Solovyov (1917), Marina Popovich (1931), Boris Lisunov (1898), Vladimir Barmin (1909), Viktor Kozin (1953), and Ivan Artobolevsky (1905).

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