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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 105,868 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vasily Mishin is the 195th most popular engineer (up from 202nd in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vasily Mishin ranks 195 out of 323. Before him are Jon Postel, William Playfair, W. Ross Ashby, Seymour Cray, Evgeny Paton, and Bassel al-Assad. After him are Semyon Lavochkin, Adolphe Alphand, Eugen Sänger, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and Mikhail Koshkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Vasily Mishin ranks 166. Before him are Ann Rutherford, Celeste Holm, Bertil Nordahl, Aníbal Paz, Luigi Poggi, and Imre Németh. After him are Steno, Olga Sanfirova, Zainab al Ghazali, Domenico Bartolucci, David Tomlinson, and Asima Chatterjee. Among people deceased in 2001, Vasily Mishin ranks 126. Before him are Malcom McLean, Grigory Chukhray, Helge Ingstad, John C. Lilly, Chuck Schuldiner, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. After him are Berry Berenson, R. K. Narayan, Liisi Oterma, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Tommy Flanagan, and John Lewis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 1,158 out of 3,262. Before him are Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Zacharias Werner (1768), Vladimir Shadrin (1948), and Inna Churikova (1943). After him are Lyudmila Zykina (1929), Ivan Pyryev (1901), George Zweig (1937), Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), and Mikhail Prokhorov (1965).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vasily Mishin ranks 26. Before him are Georgy Shpagin (1897), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), and Nikolay Kamov (1902). After him are Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), and Sergey Chaplygin (1869).

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