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Yuri Kondratyuk

1897 - 1942

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Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Кондратюк; Ukrainian: Юрій Васильович Кондратюк), real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei (Russian: Александр Игнатьевич Шаргей; Ukrainian: Олександр Гнатович Шаргей; 21 June 1897 – February 1942), was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. 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 317,554 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yuri Kondratyuk is the 90th most popular engineer (down from 81st in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 197th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 90 out of 389. Before him are Mikhail Mil, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Viktor Bryukhanov, Nicola Romeo, and Fedor Tokarev. After him are Charles Rolls, Alexander Cunningham, Karl von Terzaghi, Valdemar Poulsen, Ivan Sechenov, and Hans Ledwinka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 85. Before him are Rouben Mamoulian, Carl Oberg, Judith Anderson, Tarjei Vesaas, Shoghi Effendi, and Chen Cheng. After him are Marcel Petiot, Elijah Muhammad, Maria Valtorta, Arthur Greiser, Samuel Noah Kramer, and Jesse Douglas. Among people deceased in 1942, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 64. Before him are Flinders Petrie, Dorothea Klumpke, Leopold Berchtold, Heinz Hitler, Lauri Kristian Relander, and Wilbur Scoville. After him are Henri de Baillet-Latour, Avraham Stern, Augustinas Voldemaras, Alexander Belyaev, Valdemar Poulsen, and John Barrymore.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Kondratyuk ranks 227 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Pasternak (1862), Igor Svyatoslavich (1151), Grigory Kulik (1890), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Vladimir Dal (1801), and Aharon Appelfeld (1932). After him are Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Nina Matviienko (1947), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Anatole Litvak (1902), and Alexander Rutskoy (1947).

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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), Markus Reiner (1886), Georgy Langemak (1898), and Sergey Volkov (1973).

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