ASTRONAUTS from Latvia

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Latvian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Anatoly Solovyev (b. 1948)

With an HPI of 50.82, Anatoly Solovyev is the most famous Latvian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev was born on January 16, 1948, in Riga, Latvia (at that time - republic of the Soviet Union). Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours).

2. Aleksandr Kaleri (b. 1956)

With an HPI of 47.18, Aleksandr Kaleri is the 2nd most famous Latvian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Aleksandr "Sasha" Yuriyevich Kaleri (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Калери; born in Jūrmala, Latvia on 13 May 1956) is a former Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS). Kaleri has most recently been in space in 2010 and 2011 aboard the ISS serving as a flight engineer for the long duration Expedition 25/26 missions. He has spent the fifth-longest time in space of any person, and the longest time in space of any person not born in what is now Russia.

3. Oleg Artemyev (b. 1970)

With an HPI of 41.03, Oleg Artemyev is the 3rd most famous Latvian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (Russian: Олег Германович Артемьев; born December 28, 1970) is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a flight engineer of Expedition 39 and 40 to the International Space Station. In 2018, he returned to space as the commander of Soyuz MS-08, and in 2022, he returned to space as the commander of Soyuz MS-21.