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ASTRONAUT

Pavel Popovich

1930 - 2009

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Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, romanized: Pavlo Romanovych Popovych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut.Popovich was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, the eighth person and first Ukrainian in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Popovich has received more than 170,728 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Pavel Popovich is the 22nd most popular astronaut (up from 30th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 184th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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  • 170k

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  • 59.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Pavel Popovich ranks 22 out of 524Before him are Svetlana Savitskaya, Harrison Schmitt, Sigmund Jähn, Andriyan Nikolayev, Sergei Krikalev, and Valeri Polyakov. After him are Gus Grissom, James Irwin, Edgar Mitchell, Ed White, Valery Bykovsky, and Ilan Ramon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pavel Popovich ranks 83Before him are Buck Henry, Michel Serres, Zhores Alferov, Chinua Achebe, Omara Portuondo, and Irinej, Serbian Patriarch. After him are Michal Kováč, Sonny Rollins, Mario Adorf, James Irwin, Friedrich Gulda, and Edgar Mitchell. Among people deceased in 2009, Pavel Popovich ranks 43Before him are Ertuğrul Osman, Leszek Kołakowski, Sergey Mikhalkov, Gaafar Nimeiry, Natasha Richardson, and Toni Sailer. After him are Patrick McGoohan, Mario Benedetti, Albert Barillé, Amin al-Hafiz, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and Ernst Barkmann.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Pavel Popovich ranks 151 out of 1,083Before him are Ida Rubinstein (1883), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Boris Savinkov (1879), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Valentin Glushko (1908), and Vladimir Arnold (1937). After him are Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Anatole Litvak (1902), Ewelina Hańska (1805), and Jacob Frank (1726).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Pavel Popovich ranks 1After him are Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Georgy Shonin (1935), and Vitaly Zholobov (1937).