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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 253,356 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Valentin Glushko is the 59th most popular engineer (up from 65th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 147th 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 59 out of 323. Before him are Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Arthur Scherbius, Walter Dornberger, Colin Chapman, Kurt Tank, and Marcello Gandini. After him are Lu Ban, Masaru Ibuka, Su Song, Viktor Bryukhanov, Hans Kammler, and Leslie Groves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Valentin Glushko ranks 58. Before him are Mercè Rodoreda, Bernard Lee, Stéphane Grappelli, Henri, Count of Paris, Chivu Stoica, and Lita Grey. After him are Willard Van Orman Quine, Masaru Ibuka, Giovanni Leone, Virginia Cherrill, Carlos Arias Navarro, and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Among people deceased in 1989, Valentin Glushko ranks 56. Before him are Lucille Ball, Cornel Wilde, Graham Chapman, James Bond, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, and Kaoru Ishikawa. After him are Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Carlos Arias Navarro, Charles J. Pedersen, Luis Carlos Galán, Rashid Behbudov, and Karel Zeman.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Glushko ranks 149 out of 1,083. Before him are P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Serge Lifar (1904), Ida Rubinstein (1883), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Boris Savinkov (1879), and Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612). After him are Vladimir Arnold (1937), Pavel Popovich (1930), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), and Anatole Litvak (1902).

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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), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Markus Reiner (1886).

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