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Yevgeny Dragunov

1920 - 1991

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Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (Russian: Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в; February 20, 1920 – August 4, 1991) was a Soviet weapons designer, best known for his role in helping invent the semi-automatic rifle bearing his name, the Dragunov sniper rifle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Dragunov has received more than 208,896 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Yevgeny Dragunov is the 108th most popular engineer (up from 124th in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from Russia (up from 768th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 108 out of 389. Before him are Viktor Kaplan, Adrian Newey, Henry Darcy, Eupalinos, Carlo Abarth, and Stephen Timoshenko. After him are Robert Stephenson, Pierre Clostermann, John Bagot Glubb, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, and Joseph M. Juran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 118. Before him are Ray Harryhausen, Don Taylor, Paik Sun-yup, Mohammed Dib, Martine Carol, and Zhou Xuan. After him are Christopher Robin Milne, DeForest Kelley, Saul Bass, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, and Eva Dahlbeck. Among people deceased in 1991, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 79. Before him are Willi Boskovsky, Edmond Jabès, Pedro Arrupe, Rudolf Serkin, Cassandra Harris, and Carmine Coppola. After him are Berenice Abbott, Joachim Kroll, Daigoro Kondo, Helmut Walcha, Jean Bruller, and Ernst Krenek.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 685 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Marko Vovchok (1833), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), and Valery Bryusov (1873). After him are Alexander Sokurov (1951), Lucien Olivier (1838), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Vera Weizmann (1881), Igor Ansoff (1918), and Dokka Umarov (1964).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 16. Before him are Mikhail Mil (1909), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892). After him are Sergei Khrushchev (1935), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Georgy Babakin (1914), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), and Vitaly Abalakov (1906).

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