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ASTRONAUT

Georgy Grechko

1931 - 2017

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Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Гречко; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station. Soyuz 17 was the first crewed vehicle to visit Salyut 4, Soyuz 26 was the first crewed vehicle to visit Salyut 6, and Soyuz T-14 visited Salyut 7. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgy Grechko has received more than 59,524 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Georgy Grechko is the 78th most popular astronaut (down from 75th in 2019), the 962nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 925th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Astronaut.

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  • 60k

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  • 52.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Georgy Grechko ranks 78 out of 524. Before him are William Anders, Gregory Jarvis, Yevgeny Khrunov, Shannon Lucid, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Yury Romanenko. After him are Leonid Popov, Deke Slayton, Claude Nicollier, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Leonid Kizim, and Scott Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Georgy Grechko ranks 187. Before him are Dan Gurney, Adriana Asti, Chuck Feeney, Tommy Lapid, Franco Interlenghi, and Rubens de Falco. After him are Iajuddin Ahmed, Vizma Belševica, Dominic Chianese, Scotty Moore, Robert Enrico, and Heisuke Hironaka. Among people deceased in 2017, Georgy Grechko ranks 173. Before him are Sonny Landham, Vito Acconci, Veljo Tormis, Christine Keeler, Igor Volk, and Albert Zafy. After him are Laura Biagiotti, Gilberto Agustoni, Stephen Paddock, Baldwin Lonsdale, William Baumol, and Mary Tyler Moore.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georgy Grechko ranks 962 out of 3,262. Before him are Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), Yury Romanenko (1944), Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), Lucien Olivier (1838), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), and Grigory Margulis (1946). After him are Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1697), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Leonid Leonov (1899), Andrei Shkuro (1887), Yakov Sinai (1935), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Georgy Grechko ranks 21. Before him are Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Boris Volynov (1934), Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), and Yury Romanenko (1944). After him are Yuri Artyukhin (1930), Anatoly Berezovoy (1942), Gennady Padalka (1958), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943).

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