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Sergei Korolev

1906 - 1966

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space, Voskhod 1, and the first person, Alexei Leonov, to conduct a spacewalk. Although Korolev trained as an aircraft designer, his greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Korolev has received more than 2,017,320 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Sergei Korolev is the 9th most popular engineer, the 32nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Sergei Korolev was a Russian engineer and one of the key figures in the Soviet space program. He is most famous for being the chief designer of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, and the first human-made object to orbit the Earth.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sergei Korolev ranks 9 out of 389. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. After him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Alexei Kosygin, and Leslie Groves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Sergei Korolev ranks 18. Before him are Albert Hofmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Victor Vasarely, Josephine Baker, Hassan al-Banna, and Sayyid Qutb. After him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Hans Bethe, Roberto Rossellini, and Ernst Ruska. Among people deceased in 1966, Sergei Korolev ranks 8. Before him are André Breton, Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, Anna Akhmatova, Georges Lemaître, and Sayyid Qutb. After him are Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, Peter Debye, and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Korolev ranks 32 out of 1,365. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), and Edgar de Wahl (1867). After him are Wilhelm Reich (1897), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), and Leonid Kravchuk (1934).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Sergei Korolev ranks 1. After him are Valentin Glushko (1908), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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