ASTRONAUT

Gennadi Strekalov

1940 - 2004

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Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov (Russian: Генна́дий Миха́йлович Стрека́лов; 26 October 1940 – 25 December 2004) was an engineer, cosmonaut, and administrator at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He flew into space five times and lived aboard the Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and Mir space stations, spending over 268 days in space. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in 1983 led to him being one of only four people to use a launch escape system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gennadi Strekalov has received more than 53,381 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gennadi Strekalov is the 132nd most popular astronaut, the 1,430th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,403rd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Russian Astronaut.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gennadi Strekalov ranks 132 out of 556. Before him are Aleksei Yeliseyev, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Solovyev, Georgy Shonin, Oleg Kononenko, and Valery Rozhdestvensky. After him are Vance D. Brand, Sunita Williams, Gennady Sarafanov, Dumitru Prunariu, Roberta Bondar, and Mae Jemison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gennadi Strekalov ranks 285. Before him are Richard Lynch, Jacques Duquesne, Jia Qinglin, Fleur Jaeggy, Nanni Galli, and Vladimir Vasiliev. After him are Ansumane Mané, Sharad Pawar, Philippe Léotard, Conny Plank, Frankie Avalon, and Zhuang Zedong. Among people deceased in 2004, Gennadi Strekalov ranks 167. Before him are Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Janet Frame, Christl Cranz, Carvalho Leite, Veríssimo Correia Seabra, and Torsten Hägerstrand. After him are Tony Randall, Agnes Martin, Jacek Kuroń, Angus Ogilvy, Joan Aiken, and Ljubiša Spajić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennadi Strekalov ranks 1,430 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Abraham of Smolensk (1172), and Sergey Botkin (1832). After him are Andrej Hoteev (1946), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vadym Meller (1884), Ernst Neizvestny (1925), Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), and Lena Katina (1984).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Gennadi Strekalov ranks 42. Before him are Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Boris Yegorov (1937), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), and Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939). After him are Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), and Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941).

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