ASTRONAUT

Boris Yegorov

1937 - 1994

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Boris Borisovich Yegorov (Russian: Бори́с Бори́сович Его́ров, November 26, 1937 – September 12, 1994) was a Soviet physician and cosmonaut who became the first medical doctor to travel to space. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) and received his medical degree from the Moscow Medical Institute in 1961.Yegorov earned his doctorate in medicine, with his specialization being in disorders of the sense of balance. Yegorov was selected as a member of the multi-disciplinary team that flew on Voskhod 1. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Yegorov has received more than 74,886 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Boris Yegorov is the 124th most popular astronaut (down from 109th in 2019), the 1,343rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,228th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 75k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Boris Yegorovs by language

Over the past year Boris Yegorov has had the most page views in the with 75,820 views, followed by English (9,732), and Ukrainian (2,552). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Welsh (61.90%), Galician (56.85%), and Egyptian Arabic (49.75%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Boris Yegorov ranks 124 out of 556. Before him are Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Muhammed Faris, and Shannon Lucid. After him are Toyohiro Akiyama, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Solovyev, Georgy Shonin, and Oleg Kononenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Boris Yegorov ranks 262. Before him are Lorraine Gary, John Phillip Law, Vittorio Adorni, Juan José Saer, Marlene Schmidt, and Givi Chokheli. After him are Ivo Daneu, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Zdeněk Zikán, Zoltán Horváth, Charlie Haden, and Petar Radaković. Among people deceased in 1994, Boris Yegorov ranks 179. Before him are Paul Grimault, Dmitri Ivanenko, Roy J. Plunkett, Albert Shesternyov, Givi Chokheli, and Anni Albers. After him are Robert Jungk, Vladimir Melanin, Ivan Sidorenko, Luis Donaldo Colosio, Carmen McRae, and Phoumi Vongvichit.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Yegorov ranks 1,343 out of 3,761. Before him are Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Nur Devlet (null), and Ivan Shuvalov (1727). After him are Lev Artsimovich (1909), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868), Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Endel Puusepp (1909), and Dmitry Grigorovich (1822).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Boris Yegorov ranks 39. Before him are Yury Glazkov (1939), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Gennady Padalka (1958), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940). After him are Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Viktor Savinykh (1940), and Vladimir Solovyov (1946).

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