INVENTOR

Oleg Antonov

1906 - 1984

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Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Russian: Олег Константинович Антонов, Ukrainian: Олег Костянтинович Антонов, romanized: Oleh Kostiantynovych Antonov; 7 February 1906 – 4 April 1984) was a Soviet aeroplane designer, and the founder of the Antonov Design Bureau in Kyiv, Ukraine, named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oleg Antonov has received more than 45,155 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Oleg Antonov is the 70th most popular inventor (up from 71st in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Russia (up from 236th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Inventor.

Oleg Antonov is most famous for his Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oleg Antonov ranks 70 out of 426. Before him are Cornelis Drebbel, John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, John Deere, Jacques Piccard, and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. After him are Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, Charles K. Kao, and Kōnosuke Matsushita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Oleg Antonov ranks 46. Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Albert Sabin, Vladimir Prelog, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcel Carné, and Clyde Tombaugh. After him are Empress Wanrong, John Huston, James E. Webb, Robert E. Howard, Marie José of Belgium, and Marcelo Caetano. Among people deceased in 1984, Oleg Antonov ranks 25. Before him are Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Anna Anderson, and Truman Capote. After him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Marvin Gaye, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Dmitry Ustinov, Stanley Milgram, and Vicente Aleixandre.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Antonov ranks 227 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Alexander Oparin (1894), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883). After him are Bruno Taut (1880), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), and Ilya Frank (1908).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Oleg Antonov ranks 1. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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