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Viktor Belenko

1947 - 2023

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Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Belenko has received more than 1,319,200 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Viktor Belenko is the 56th most popular engineer (up from 70th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Russia (up from 492nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Engineer.

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  • 66.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Viktor Belenko ranks 56 out of 389. Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, and Bjarne Stroustrup. After him are Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, and Valentin Glushko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Viktor Belenko ranks 77. Before him are Peter Sloterdijk, Walter Röhrl, Robert Englund, Joe Mantegna, Carla Del Ponte, and Mariska Veres. After him are Anwar Ibrahim, Ljupko Petrović, Dwight Schultz, Peter Weller, Martha Nussbaum, and Klaus Schulze. Among people deceased in 2023, Viktor Belenko ranks 89. Before him are Carla Bley, Gaston Glock, Milan Milutinović, Henri Konan Bédié, Antonella Lualdi, and Frank Borman. After him are Gianni Vattimo, Thomas Williams, Françoise Gilot, Luis Garavito, Dariush Mehrjui, and Ruud Geels.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 414 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), George Balanchine (1904), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Yakov Yurovsky (1878), Valentin Ivanov (1934), and Semyon Dezhnev (1605). After him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Ivan Serov (1905), Alexey Pajitnov (1956), Lovis Corinth (1858), Mikhail Vrubel (1856), and Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Viktor Belenko ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Andrei Tupolev (1888), and Sergey Ilyushin (1894). After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), and Ivan Sechenov (1829).

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