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Vladimir Petlyakov

1891 - 1942

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Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петляко́в; 15 June 1891 – 12 January 1942) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer. Petlyakov was born in 1891 in Sambek, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire (now Neklinovsky District, Rostov Oblast), where his father served as a local official. After graduating from the Technical College in Taganrog (now "Taganrog Petlyakov Aviation College", Таганрогский авиационный колледж им. В. М. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Petlyakov has received more than 51,208 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Vladimir Petlyakov is the 202nd most popular engineer (down from 181st in 2019), the 1,244th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,096th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 202 out of 389Before him are Franz Grashof, Émile Levassor, Alphonse Pénaud, Walter Hohmann, Béla Barényi, and Evgeny Paton. After him are Bassel al-Assad, Mikhail Koshkin, Alexey Sudayev, Arthur Morin, Nikolay Makarov, and Semyon Lavochkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 142Before him are Greta Schröder, Mischa Elman, Kurt von der Chevallerie, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Richard Tauber, and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife. After him are Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Charles Bickford, Scott Bradley, Alberto Savinio, Ágnes Esterházy, and Zora Neale Hurston. Among people deceased in 1942, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 133Before him are Albert Kahn, Roberto Arlt, Kaarel Eenpalu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Roberto María Ortiz, and Otto Herschmann. After him are Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Lev Nussimbaum, Gabriel Terra, Charlie Christian, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, and Nikola Vaptsarov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 1,244 out of 3,761Before him are Carl Neumann (1832), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Valentin Gaft (1935), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), and Konstantin Novoselov (1974). After him are Viktor Astafyev (1924), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Philotheus of Pskov (1465), George Zweig (1937), August von Werder (1808), and Lyudmila Zykina (1929).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 27Before him are Alexei Tupolev (1925), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Vasily Mishin (1917), Gotthilf Hagen (1797), and Alexander Lodygin (1847). After him are Alexey Sudayev (1912), Nikolay Makarov (1914), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Alexander Mikulin (1895), and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874).