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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q478850&amp;oldid=2509376139" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Order of the Red Banner of Labour · dated 1932
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q834199&amp;oldid=2515883899" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15918735&amp;oldid=2494665388" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vyatka men&#39;s gymnasium
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15972371&amp;oldid=2536771697" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class

Wikidata describes Konstantin Tsiolkovsky as Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935).

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