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Vasily Mishin

1917 - 2001

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Vasily Pavlovich Mishin (Russian: Василий Павлович Мишин; 18 January 1917 – 10 October 2001) was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet space program that took place under his management. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Mishin has received more than 113,378 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vasily Mishin is the 176th most popular engineer (up from 193rd in 2019), the 1,082nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,155th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Engineer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vasily Mishin ranks 176 out of 389. Before him are Riccardo Morandi, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Louis Charles Breguet, Hellmuth Walter, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and Nikolay Kamov. After him are Gotthilf Hagen, Robert Maillart, Eugene Stoner, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Hugo Eckener, and Alfred Neubauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Vasily Mishin ranks 154. Before him are Asima Chatterjee, Marsha Hunt, Donald Davidson, Vasiľ Biľak, Ernst von Glasersfeld, and Han Suyin. After him are Red Auerbach, Leopoldo Trieste, June Allyson, Philipp von Boeselager, Zainab al Ghazali, and Fadwa Tuqan. Among people deceased in 2001, Vasily Mishin ranks 114. Before him are Michel Marcel Navratil, G. E. M. Anscombe, Hans Münch, Charles Helou, Nigel Hawthorne, and Paul Vanden Boeynants. After him are Marta Hillers, Budd Boetticher, Leila Pahlavi, Jelle Zijlstra, Gloria Foster, and Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 1,082 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Salnikov (1925), Abram Arkhipov (1862), Onfim (1250), Aleksandr Serebrov (1944), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), and Maria Zakharova (1975). After him are Sergey Uvarov (1786), Mikhail Boyarsky (1949), Boris Mikhailov (1944), Hyacinth (1777), Angelina Beloff (1879), and Gotthilf Hagen (1797).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 24. Before him are Georgy Shpagin (1897), Georgy Babakin (1914), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), and Nikolay Kamov (1902). After him are Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Alexander Lodygin (1847), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Nikolay Makarov (1914), and Semyon Lavochkin (1900).

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