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Sergey Ilyushin

1894 - 1977

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Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (Russian: Серге́й Владимирович Илью́шин; 30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1894 – 9 February 1977) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau. He designed the Il-2 Shturmovik, which made its maiden flight in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Ilyushin has received more than 152,644 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Ilyushin is the 42nd most popular engineer, the 325th most popular biography from Russia (up from 361st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Engineer.

Sergey Ilyushin was a Russian aircraft designer who designed many Soviet planes. He is most famous for his work on the IL-2 Sturmovik, which was the best fighter plane in World War II.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Sergey Ilyushin ranks 42 out of 389. Before him are Pavel Sukhoi, Felix Wankel, Ildefons Cerdà, Ernst Heinkel, Howard H. Aiken, and Anthony Fokker. After him are Marcello Gandini, William John Macquorn Rankine, Moshe Arens, Vannevar Bush, Lu Ban, and John Ambrose Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Sergey Ilyushin ranks 41. Before him are Karl Böhm, Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, Martha Graham, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Josef von Sternberg. After him are Paul Blobel, Elisabeth of Romania, Norman Rockwell, Aino Aalto, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Lothar von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1977, Sergey Ilyushin ranks 32. Before him are Alexander Luria, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Edgar Adrian, Peter Finch, Gudrun Ensslin, and Groucho Marx. After him are James Jones, Abdel Halim Hafez, Ali Shariati, Clementine Churchill, Steve Biko, and Francis Gary Powers.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Ilyushin ranks 325 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Markov (1856), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Natalya Naryshkina (1651). After him are Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Feodor Chaliapin (1873), Michael Chekhov (1891), Yury of Moscow (1281), Michel Fokine (1880), and Dmitry of Uglich (1582).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Sergey Ilyushin ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), and Andrei Tupolev (1888). After him are Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Fedor Tokarev (1871).

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