ASTRONAUT

Leonid Kadeniuk

1951 - 2018

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Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadeniuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine to fly into outer space. In 1997, he flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadeniuk held the rank of major general in the Ukrainian Air Force. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Kadeniuk has received more than 92,333 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Leonid Kadeniuk is the 116th most popular astronaut (down from 111th in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 484th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 116 out of 556. Before him are Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Talgat Musabayev, Gennady Padalka, Gregory Jarvis, Joseph A. Walker, and Vladimir Aksyonov. After him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and Muhammed Faris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 210. Before him are Ona Zee, Gustav Thöni, Mary McAleese, Talgat Musabayev, Arnold Mühren, and Ron Arad. After him are Nikenike Vurobaravu, Christophe de Margerie, John Stagliano, Margo Martindale, Lazarus You Heung-sik, and Yvonne Farrell. Among people deceased in 2018, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 203. Before him are Peter Mayle, John Mahoney, Reinhard Hardegen, Henri Namphy, Siegfried Rauch, and Leila Abashidze. After him are Eddie Clarke, Anneke Grönloh, David C. H. Austin, Dragutin Šurbek, Nikolai Karachentsov, and Billy Herrington.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 512 out of 1,365. Before him are Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Viktor Chukarin (1921), Petro Grigorenko (1907), Iryna Melnykova (1918), Boris Yefimov (1900), and Mykola Khvylovy (1893). After him are Vasyl Makukh (1927), Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876), Georges Florovsky (1893), Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Maciej Rataj (1884), and Valentina Grizodubova (1909).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 10. Before him are Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), and Vladimir Lyakhov (1941). After him are Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Georgy Shonin (1935), Yuri Gidzenko (1962), Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), and Yuri Malenchenko (1961).

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