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Pavel Sukhoi

1895 - 1975

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Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (Russian: Па́вел О́сипович Сухо́й; Belarusian: Па́вел Во́сіпавіч Сухі́, Paviel Vosipavič Suchi; 22 July 1895 – 15 September 1975) was a Soviet aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known as the founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau. Sukhoi designed military aircraft with Tupolev and Sukhoi for 50 years, and produced many notable Soviet planes such as the Sukhoi Su-7, Su-17, and Su-24. His planes set two altitude world records (1959, 1962) and two world speed records (1960, 1962). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Sukhoi has received more than 298,949 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Sukhoi is the 36th most popular engineer (down from 34th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Engineer.

Pavel Sukhoi is most famous for designing the Su-27, a Soviet fighter jet.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pavel Sukhoi ranks 36 out of 389. Before him are Hermann Oberth, Albert Göring, Theodore von Kármán, Emil Škoda, Hugo Junkers, and Villard de Honnecourt. After him are Felix Wankel, Ildefons Cerdà, Ernst Heinkel, Howard H. Aiken, Anthony Fokker, and Sergey Ilyushin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Pavel Sukhoi ranks 56. Before him are Richard Walther Darré, Dorothea Lange, Albert Göring, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Lewis Milestone, and Dickinson W. Richards. After him are Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Kurt Zeitzler, Vasily Blokhin, and Wilhelm Kempff. Among people deceased in 1975, Pavel Sukhoi ranks 29. Before him are Graham Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, Paul Keres, Latife Uşşaki, and Éamon de Valera. After him are Edward Tatum, Julian Huxley, József Mindszenty, Chivu Stoica, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, and Gottlob Berger.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Pavel Sukhoi ranks 23 out of 368. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), Yanka Kupala (1882), and Ossip Zadkine (1888). After him are Alexander Parvus (1867), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), Léon Bakst (1866), Raphael Lemkin (1900), and Maria Kaczyńska (1942).

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Among ENGINEERS In Belarus

Among engineers born in Belarus, Pavel Sukhoi ranks 1. After him are Sergei Tumansky (1901), and Ivan Yarkovsky (1844).

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