ASTRONAUT

Aleksandr Viktorenko

1947 - 2023

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Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko (Russian: Александр Степанович Викторенко; 29 March 1947 – 10 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. Viktorenko was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 March 1978 and retired on 30 May 1997. He was commander of Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14, and Soyuz TM-20. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Viktorenko has received more than 52,684 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Aleksandr Viktorenko is the 27th most popular astronaut (up from 163rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Astronaut.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Aleksandr Viktorenko ranks 27 out of 556. Before him are Sigmund Jähn, Jim Lovell, Alan Bean, Gus Grissom, Pavel Popovich, and Ed White. After him are Roger B. Chaffee, Edgar Mitchell, Michael P. Anderson, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ken Mattingly, and Charles Duke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Aleksandr Viktorenko ranks 92. Before him are Roger D. Kornberg, James Patterson, F. R. David, Richard Jenkins, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, and Danielle Steel. After him are Lucas Papademos, Barbara Bach, Jeffrey DeMunn, Edu Coimbra, Edward James Olmos, and Wes Studi. Among people deceased in 2023, Aleksandr Viktorenko ranks 101. Before him are Ruud Geels, Dmitry Utkin, Matteo Messina Denaro, Shane MacGowan, Bo Larsson, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. After him are Burt Bacharach, Marouf al-Bakhit, Sixto Rodriguez, Josephine Chaplin, Sinéad O'Connor, and Antonio Carbajal.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Viktorenko ranks 16 out of 193. Before him are Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), Ablai Khan (1711), and Shoqan Walikhanov (1835). After him are Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Oleg Yankovsky (1944), Toktar Aubakirov (1946), and Abul Khair Khan (1693).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Kazakhstan

Among astronauts born in Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Viktorenko ranks 1. After him are Toktar Aubakirov (1946), Viktor Patsayev (1933), Vladimir Shatalov (1927), Talgat Musabayev (1951), and Yury Lonchakov (1965).

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