ASTRONAUT

Gennady Padalka

1958 - Today

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Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as the commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gennady Padalka has received more than 407,979 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Gennady Padalka is the 112th most popular astronaut (down from 90th in 2019), the 1,232nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,079th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gennady Padalka ranks 112 out of 556. Before him are Lev Dyomin, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Yury Glazkov, Bertalan Farkas, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, and Talgat Musabayev. After him are Gregory Jarvis, Joseph A. Walker, Vladimir Aksyonov, Leonid Kadeniuk, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Gennady Padalka ranks 133. Before him are Rosa Mota, Cindy Kiro, Najla Bouden, Stephen Hopkins, Linda Fiorentino, and Alessandro Baricco. After him are Fish, Bertrand Piccard, Zlatko Vujović, Ron Mueck, Colm Feore, and Silvan Shalom.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 1,232 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Basov (1923), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Max Wien (1866), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693). After him are Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Pavel Chichagov (1767), and Carl Neumann (1832).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 35. Before him are Valery Ryumin (1939), Georgy Grechko (1931), Lev Dyomin (1926), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Yury Glazkov (1939), and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947). After him are Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Boris Yegorov (1937), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), and Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939).

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