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Gennady Padalka

1958 - Today

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Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeннадий Иванович Падалка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka held the world 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 387,349 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Gennady Padalka is the 90th most popular astronaut (up from 124th in 2019), the 1,081st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,214th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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  • 390k

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  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gennady Padalka ranks 90 out of 524. Before him are Scott Carpenter, Yuri Artyukhin, Anatoly Berezovoy, Pyotr Klimuk, Stuart Roosa, and Alfred Worden. After him are Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Walter Cunningham, Ulf Merbold, Vladimir Lyakhov, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, and Sunita Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Gennady Padalka ranks 102. Before him are Sergey Sobyanin, Eric Singer, Tita, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Jennifer Tilly, and Fish. After him are Nancy Spungen, Colm Feore, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Domenico Dolce, Dragan Đokanović, and Didier Reynders.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 1,081 out of 3,262. Before him are Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Ivan Tyulenev (1892), Boris Polevoy (1908), Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), Pyotr Saltykov (1698), and Nikita Simonyan (1926). After him are Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Pavel Postyshev (1887), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Denis Davydov (1784), Erkki Melartin (1875), and Carl Jaenisch (1813).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 24. Before him are Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), Yury Romanenko (1944), Georgy Grechko (1931), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), and Anatoly Berezovoy (1942). After him are Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947).

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