ASTRONAUT

Gennady Sarafanov

1942 - 2005

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Gennady Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Сарафанов; 1 January 1942 – 29 September 2005) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This mission was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but failed to do so after the docking system malfunctioned. Sarafanov was born in Sinenkiye, Saratov Oblast, USSR. He graduated from the Soviet Air Force academy and held the rank of colonel.He made a single spaceflight before resigning from the space programme in 1986 and subsequently lectured on technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gennady Sarafanov has received more than 6,762 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Sarafanov is the 135th most popular astronaut (up from 136th in 2019), the 1,453rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,438th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.8k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gennady Sarafanovs by language

Over the past year Gennady Sarafanov has had the most page views in the with 4,120 views, followed by English (1,307), and Czech (724). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (95.20%), Finnish (81.25%), and Belarusian (80.67%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gennady Sarafanov ranks 135 out of 556. Before him are Georgy Shonin, Oleg Kononenko, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Strekalov, Vance D. Brand, and Sunita Williams. After him are Dumitru Prunariu, Roberta Bondar, Mae Jemison, Ulf Merbold, Kenneth Cockrell, and Yuri Gidzenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gennady Sarafanov ranks 359. Before him are Carlos Hathcock, Claude Miller, Werner Teske, Doğu Perinçek, Gerben Karstens, and Ricardo Ezzati Andrello. After him are Sterling Morrison, Billy Bremner, Hannelore Elsner, Pål Tyldum, Norberto Rivera Carrera, and Juan Carlos Sarnari. Among people deceased in 2005, Gennady Sarafanov ranks 179. Before him are Laurel Aitken, Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, Stanley Williams, Shoji Nishio, Polina Gelman, and Hans Clarin. After him are Eduardo Paolozzi, Wee Kim Wee, Mario David, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Dorothy Stang, and Marc Lawrence.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Sarafanov ranks 1,453 out of 3,761. Before him are Gavriil Kachalin (1911), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Julia Volkova (1985), Fyodor Dan (1871), Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881), and Herman of Alaska (1756). After him are Aleksandr Abdulov (1953), Larin Paraske (1832), Petr Aven (1955), Igor Rodionov (1936), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), and Lydia Lopokova (1892).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Gennady Sarafanov ranks 43. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Boris Yegorov (1937), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), and Gennadi Strekalov (1940). After him are Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), and Valentin Lebedev (1942).

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