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Valentin Glushko

1908 - 1989

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Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Глушко́; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; born 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentin Glushko has received more than 272,972 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Valentin Glushko is the 62nd most popular engineer (down from 58th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 148th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

Valentin Glushko was a Russian rocket engineer and the head of the Soviet space program for many years. He is most famous for his work on the Soviet Union's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Valentin Glushko ranks 62 out of 389. Before him are Viktor Belenko, Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, and Banū Mūsā. After him are Kurt Gerstein, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Hans Kammler, Walter Dornberger, Paul Cornu, and Jimmy Doolittle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Valentin Glushko ranks 60. Before him are Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rex Harrison, Stéphane Grappelli, Masaru Ibuka, Mercè Rodoreda, and Amintore Fanfani. After him are Martha Gellhorn, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Carlos Arias Navarro, Willard Van Orman Quine, Lionel Stander, and Henri, Count of Paris. Among people deceased in 1989, Valentin Glushko ranks 52. Before him are Irving Berlin, Antonia Brico, John Payne, Gaetano Scirea, Guy Williams, and Ahmadou Ahidjo. After him are Charles J. Pedersen, Kazimierz Deyna, Rashid Behbudov, Carlos Arias Navarro, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, and Irving Stone.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Glushko ranks 158 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Ewelina Hańska (1805), and Konstanty Ostrogski (1460). After him are Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Boris Savinkov (1879), Richard von Mises (1883), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), and Serge Lifar (1904).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Valentin Glushko ranks 2. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906). After him are 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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