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ASTRONAUT

Svetlana Savitskaya

1948 - Today

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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetlana Savitskaya has received more than 465,744 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Svetlana Savitskaya is the 16th most popular astronaut (up from 21st in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Russia (up from 388th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Svetlana Savitskaya is most famous for being the first woman to go to space. She was a Russian cosmonaut and spent three days in space.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 16 out of 524. Before her are Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Dennis Tito, David Scott, and Jim Lovell. After her are Harrison Schmitt, Sigmund Jähn, Andriyan Nikolayev, Sergei Krikalev, Valeri Polyakov, and Pavel Popovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 62. Before her are Edmund Kemper, Bille August, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, William Gibson, and Rory Gallagher. After her are Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ray Kurzweil, Tom Wilkinson, Agnieszka Holland, and Arie Haan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 380 out of 3,262. Before her are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Leonid Andreyev (1871), and Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576). After her are Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), and Sergey Mikhalkov (1913).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 6. Before her are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), and Gherman Titov (1935). After her are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Valeri Kubasov (1935).

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