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Mikhail Yangel

1911 - 1971

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Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (Russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911 – 25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Yangel has received more than 112,546 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mikhail Yangel is the 151st most popular engineer (down from 140th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Russia (down from 861st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Mikhail Yangel ranks 151 out of 389. Before him are Kerim Kerimov, Alec Issigonis, Yahya Ayyash, Joseph Strauss, Georgy Babakin, and William Playfair. After him are Alexei Tupolev, Mstislav Keldysh, Adolphe Alphand, Léon Charles Thévenin, Henryk Dembiński, and Gérard Larrousse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mikhail Yangel ranks 122. Before him are Joseph Luns, Barbara West, Carlos Marighella, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Mark Bernes, and Joseph Alcazar. After him are Peter van Eyck, Mstislav Keldysh, Tilly Fleischer, Pierre Harmel, Harry Andrews, and Randolph Churchill. Among people deceased in 1971, Mikhail Yangel ranks 81. Before him are Frank Wolff, Mak Dizdar, Amet-khan Sultan, Georgi Asparuhov, Joseph Valachi, and Georgy Babakin. After him are Bella Darvi, Gertrud von Le Fort, Vikram Sarabhai, Mikhail Romm, Wasfi Tal, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Yangel ranks 934 out of 3,761. Before him are Konstantin Leontiev (1831), Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Aleksandr Dvornikov (1961), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Ivan Yefremov (1908), and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878). After him are Anatoli Boukreev (1958), Platon Zubov (1767), Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), and Konstantin Feoktistov (1926).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Mikhail Yangel ranks 20. Before him are Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Georgy Shpagin (1897), and Georgy Babakin (1914). After him are Alexei Tupolev (1925), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Vasily Mishin (1917), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), and Alexander Lodygin (1847).

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