ASTRONAUT

Andriyan Nikolayev

1929 - 2004

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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash and Russian: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев; 5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andriyan Nikolayev has received more than 249,641 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Andriyan Nikolayev is the 16th most popular astronaut (up from 19th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Russia (up from 394th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Andriyan Nikolayev is most famous for being the first human to orbit the Earth in space.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 16 out of 556. Before him are John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Alan Shepard, Dennis Tito, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Valeri Polyakov. After him are David Scott, Harrison Schmitt, James Irwin, Frank Borman, Sigmund Jähn, and Jim Lovell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 75. Before him are Violeta Chamorro, Ágnes Heller, George Steiner, Albert Azaryan, Imelda Marcos, and Mike Hawthorn. After him are Abdel Halim Hafez, Pierre Brice, Jean Simmons, George Stinney, Hebe Camargo, and Yozo Aoki. Among people deceased in 2004, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 37. Before him are Estée Lauder, Julius Axelrod, Thomas Klestil, Jerry Goldsmith, Edward B. Lewis, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. After him are John Vane, Theo van Gogh, Charles Sweeney, Godfrey Hounsfield, Robert Merle, and Gérard Debreu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 341 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Lev Gumilyov (1912), and Tamara Karsavina (1885). After him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), The French Angel (1903), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), and Alfred Schnittke (1934).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 8. Before him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), and Valeri Polyakov (1942). After him are Valery Bykovsky (1934), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Yury Romanenko (1944), Sergei Krikalev (1958), and Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933).

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