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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 47,217 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vladimir Petlyakov is the 183rd most popular engineer (up from 205th in 2019), the 1,098th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,080th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 183 out of 323Before him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, John Smeaton, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Walter Hohmann, Michel Chevalier, and Gotthilf Hagen. After him are Louis Dollo, Agustín de Betancourt, Joseph Strauss, Nikolay Kamov, Gene Kranz, and Jon Postel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 127Before him are Mischa Elman, Erich Marcks, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Julio Baghy, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Béla Imrédy. After him are Wan Waithayakon, Vittorio Jano, Francisco Lázaro, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Richard Tauber, and Harold Jeffreys. Among people deceased in 1942, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 110Before him are Emma Calvé, Charlie Christian, Joseph Larmor, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Aurel Stodola, and Adolf Mayer. After him are Heinrich Vogeler, Léon Daudet, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Olga Benário Prestes, Francis Younghusband, and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 1,098 out of 3,262Before him are Innocent of Alaska (1797), Sergey Lebedev (1902), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Alexey Venetsianov (1780), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), and Vasily Gordov (1896). After him are Vladimir Lisin (1956), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Maksim Purkayev (1894), Ivan Larionov (1830), and Sergey Solovyov (1820).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vladimir Petlyakov ranks 24Before him are Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Mikhail Yangel (1911), and Gotthilf Hagen (1797). After him are Nikolay Kamov (1902), Vasily Mishin (1917), Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), and Alexander Mikulin (1895).