INVENTOR

Rostislav Alexeyev

1916 - 1980

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Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev (Russian: Ростисла́в Евге́ньевич Алексе́ев; December 18, 1916 – February 9, 1980) was a Russian Soviet Director & Chief of Design known for his pioneering work on hydrofoil ships and ground-effect vehicles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rostislav Alexeyev has received more than 120,383 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Rostislav Alexeyev is the 329th most popular inventor (down from 284th in 2019), the 1,804th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,385th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Rostislav Alexeyev ranks 329 out of 426Before him are Jay Miner, Harry Ferguson, John Wilkinson, Edward Lawry Norton, Ivan Polzunov, and Bernard Lown. After him are Orville Gibson, Hannibal Goodwin, Beulah Louise Henry, Phil Ramone, Henri Fabre, and Giovanni Caselli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Rostislav Alexeyev ranks 209Before him are Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Yekaterina Zelenko, Shigeo Arai, Mary Stewart, Anna Yegorova, and Ondina Valla. After him are Nancye Wynne Bolton, Neagu Djuvara, Veronika Dudarova, Nadya Nozharova, Erich Mende, and Arpenik Nalbandyan. Among people deceased in 1980, Rostislav Alexeyev ranks 211Before him are Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Simonne Mathieu, Vicente de la Mata, Willi Forst, Mikhail Lavrentyev, and Heikki Liimatainen. After him are Finn Ronne, Humberto Tozzi, Nikos Xilouris, Anna Jantar, Tim Hardin, and Carlo Annovazzi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Rostislav Alexeyev ranks 1,804 out of 3,761Before him are Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Aleksandra Beļcova (1892), Alexander Kalyagin (1942), Igor Ilyinsky (1901), Anna Yegorova (1916), and Boris Chicherin (1828). After him are Boris Babochkin (1904), Boris Klyuyev (1944), Grigori Roshal (1899), Boris Vasilyev (1924), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), and Leonid Spirin (1932).

Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Rostislav Alexeyev ranks 12Before him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), and Ivan Polzunov (1728). After him are Oleg Losev (1903).