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Irina Solovyova

1937 - Today

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Irina Solovyova (born September 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut active from 1962 to 1969. Solovyova was born in Kireyevsk, Tula in Russia and she is known for being one out of the five women chosen to join the Soviet Union's all-female space squad. Irina Solovyova emerged as a public figure in the midst of the Cold War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irina Solovyova has received more than 57,300 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Irina Solovyova is the 354th most popular explorer (down from 303rd in 2019), the 1,530th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,292nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Explorer.

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  • 57k

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  • 56.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Irina Solovyova ranks 354 out of 498Before her are Oscar Dickson, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Pascual de Andagoya, Juan Fernández, and Florence Baker. After her are Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, Samuel Baker, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Georgy Sedov, and Stepan Krasheninnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Irina Solovyova ranks 298Before her are Jurek Becker, Mark Donohue, Anita Traversi, Glen A. Larson, Pino Puglisi, and Jeannot Szwarc. After her are Clodovil Hernandes, Sally Kellerman, Merle Haggard, Jennifer Welles, Brian G. Marsden, and Nikolay Drozdov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Irina Solovyova ranks 1,530 out of 3,761Before her are Pavel Fedotov (1815), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909), Olha Bryzhina (1963), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), and Esfir Shub (1894). After her are Alexander Chayanov (1888), Mikhail Devyataev (1917), Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873), Nikolai Semashko (1874), Alexander Kokorinov (1726), and Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930).

Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Irina Solovyova ranks 18Before her are Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Pyotr Kozlov (1862), and Dmitry Laptev (1701). After her are Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711), Khariton Laptev (1700), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Fersman (1883), Pyotr Anjou (1796), and Karl Maximovich (1827).