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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 46,943 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mikhail Tikhonravov is the 278th most popular engineer (down from 264th in 2019), the 1,746th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,548th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 278 out of 323Before him are Othmar Ammann, K. Eric Drexler, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Da-Wen Sun, Eilmer of Malmesbury, and Alan Shugart. After him are Arthur E. Kennelly, Hideo Itokawa, Geoffrey de Havilland, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Frances Spence, and Jesse Ramsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 226Before him are Hermann Kesten, William Stevenson, Mildred Gillars, Devdas Gandhi, William Haines, and Colin Clive. After him are Alfredo Dinale, Ludovico Bidoglio, Ernie Pyle, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Alfredo Porzio, and Alan Helffrich. Among people deceased in 1974, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 177Before him are Bobby Timmons, Sergey Urusevsky, Gheorghe Albu, Béla Illés, Konrad Frey, and Jacqueline Susann. After him are Gerhard Lamprecht, Matilde Hidalgo, Fernand de Montigny, Knudåge Riisager, Edward Condon, and Théodore Nouwens.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 1,746 out of 3,262Before him are Vladimir Makanin (1937), Boris Tishchenko (1939), Alexander Odoevsky (1802), Pyotr Mamonov (1951), Pavel Lungin (1949), and Nikolai Tanayev (1945). After him are Valentin Muratov (1928), Ivan Yarygin (1948), Leonid Abalkin (1930), Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Vikenty Veresaev (1867), and Yuri Shevchuk (1957).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Tikhonravov ranks 34Before him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Sergey Chaplygin (1869), and Mikhail Simonov (1929). After him are Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Boris Lisunov (1898), Georgy Babakin (1914), Viktor Kozin (1953), and Vladimir Barmin (1909).