ASTRONAUT

Sergei Krikalev

1958 - Today

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Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Сергей Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born 27 August 1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks fourth to Oleg Kononenko, Gennady Padalka, and Yuri Malenchenko for the most time spent in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes. Krikalev was stranded on board the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Krikalev has received more than 1,427,253 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Sergei Krikalev is the 44th most popular astronaut (down from 20th in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Russia (down from 428th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Sergei Krikalev ranks 44 out of 556Before him are Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, Vladislav Volkov, Valeri Kubasov, Yury Romanenko, and John Young. After him are Viktor Patsayev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Ellison Onizuka, Walter Cunningham, and Vladimir Shatalov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Sergei Krikalev ranks 57Before him are Lambert Wilson, Andie MacDowell, Patrice Talon, Rabah Madjer, Javier Aguirre, and Ghassan Massoud. After him are Marg Helgenberger, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Adrian Newey, Elio de Angelis, Holly Hunter, and Bernardo Arévalo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Krikalev ranks 626 out of 3,761Before him are Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), Alexander Godunov (1949), Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782), and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826). After him are Ivan Sechenov (1829), Alexandre Benois (1870), Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Vasily Shukshin (1929), and Viktor Chernov (1873).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Sergei Krikalev ranks 13Before him are Valeri Polyakov (1942), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Valeri Kubasov (1935), and Yury Romanenko (1944). After him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), Vyacheslav Zudov (1942), Aleksei Gubarev (1931), and Viktor Gorbatko (1934).