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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 193,321 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Dragunov is the 126th most popular engineer (down from 123rd in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from Russia (down from 711th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Engineer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among engineers, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 126 out of 323. Before him are Flaminio Bertoni, Alexandre Darracq, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Borys Paton, Franz Reuleaux, and Erik Dahlbergh. After him are Pierre Berthier, Aurel Vlaicu, Gustave Whitehead, Carlo Abarth, Alexander Lippisch, and Vitaly Abalakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 133. Before him are Michael Anderson, Paik Sun-yup, Richard Adams, Yegor Ligachyov, Miguel Delibes, and Dick Francis. After him are Christopher Robin Milne, Viveca Lindfors, Richard Farnsworth, Amet-khan Sultan, Harold Sakata, and Renato Carosone. Among people deceased in 1991, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 81. Before him are Rudolf Serkin, Edwin H. Land, Héctor Rial, Ernst Krenek, Carmine Coppola, and Cassandra Harris. After him are Richard Thorpe, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Étienne Decroux, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Jean Bruller, and Alex North.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 770 out of 3,262. Before him are Andrey Arshavin (1981), Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Evgeny Pashukanis (1891), and Boris Stürmer (1848). After him are Sergei Sobolev (1908), Samuil Marshak (1887), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Alexander Zinoviev (1922), Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919), and Elisaveta Bykova (1913).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Yevgeny Dragunov ranks 17. Before him are Ivan Sechenov (1829), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Fedor Tokarev (1871), and Alexander Lodygin (1847). After him are Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Mikhail Yangel (1911), and Gotthilf Hagen (1797).

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