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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. He flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadenyuk 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 85,057 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Kadeniuk is the 111th most popular astronaut (down from 107th in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 453rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 111 out of 524Before him are Tatyana Kuznetsova, Bertalan Farkas, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Talgat Musabayev, Boris Yegorov, and Vladimir Aksyonov. After him are Viktor Afanasyev, Vladimir Kovalyonok, William R. Pogue, Aleksandr Serebrov, Yury Glazkov, and Musa Manarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 199Before him are Talgat Musabayev, David Kipiani, Shigemi Ishii, Natsuo Kirino, Patriarch Daniel of Romania, and John Stagliano. After him are Gregory Winter, John Scofield, Kent Nagano, Emmanuel Todd, Sulejman Tihić, and John Mellencamp. Among people deceased in 2018, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 206Before him are Tatyana Kuznetsova, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stan Mikita, Rosenda Monteros, Cecil Taylor, and Philip Bosco. After him are Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Otis Rush, Nikolai Karachentsov, James Karen, Ramón Chao, and Odvar Nordli.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 487 out of 1,083Before him are Kazimierz Nowak (1897), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Viktor Chukarin (1921), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888), and Ilya Ilf (1897). After him are Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Polina Osipenko (1907), Leonid Stadnyk (1969), Nathan Altman (1889), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

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