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Yuri Kondratyuk

1897 - 1942

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Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (Russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Кондратю́к; Ukrainian: Ю́рій Васи́льович Кондратю́к; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (Russian: Алекса́ндр Игна́тьевич Шарге́й; Ukrainian: Олександр Гнатович Шаргей) was a Ukrainian engineer and mathematician in the Soviet Union. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Kondratyuk has received more than 307,986 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yuri Kondratyuk is the 83rd most popular engineer (up from 138th in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 307th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 83 out of 323. Before him are Jack Swigert, Marcel Renault, Vannevar Bush, Józef Bem, Henri Farman, and Vasily Degtyaryov. After him are Karl von Terzaghi, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Harry Nyquist, Ivan Sechenov, Valdemar Poulsen, and Mikhail Gurevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 81. Before him are Mukhtar Auezov, Ana Aslan, Johann Rattenhuber, Károly Kerényi, Maria Valtorta, and Rouben Mamoulian. After him are Shoghi Effendi, Yeghishe Charents, Otto Dietrich, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, and Kurt Gerron. Among people deceased in 1942, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 62. Before him are Leopold Berchtold, Lauri Kristian Relander, Leopold Mandić, Dorando Pietri, Georg Stumme, and Felix Weingartner. After him are Germaine Dulac, Valdemar Poulsen, Alexander Belyaev, John Barrymore, Stjepan Filipović, and Alfred Flatow.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 199 out of 1,083. Before him are Wojciech Kilar (1932), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Aureolus (220), and Natalia Sedova (1882). After him are Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), and David Bronstein (1924).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ukraine

Among engineers born in Ukraine, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 3. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906) and Valentin Glushko (1908). After him are Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Borys Paton (1918), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Markus Reiner (1886).

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