ASTRONAUT

Valentin Bondarenko

1937 - 1961

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Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko (Russian: Валентин Васильевич Бондаренко; Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Бондаренко; 16 February 1937 – 23 March 1961) was a Soviet fighter pilot selected in 1960 for training as a cosmonaut. He died as the result of burns sustained in a fire during a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow. The Soviet government concealed the death, along with Bondarenko's membership in the cosmonaut corps, until 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentin Bondarenko has received more than 383,341 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Valentin Bondarenko is the 54th most popular astronaut (down from 45th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 268th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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  • 24

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 54 out of 556. Before him are Ellison Onizuka, Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Shatalov, Kalpana Chawla, Wally Schirra, and Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. After him are Ronald Evans, Pavel Belyayev, Valentina Ponomaryova, Musa Manarov, Georgy Beregovoy, and Jean-Loup Chrétien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 139. Before him are Alberto Spencer, Amos Tversky, Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, Ned Beatty, and Monkey Punch. After him are Dan Shomron, John Kennedy Toole, Tung Chee-hwa, Mintimer Shaimiev, Jay Rockefeller, and Waylon Jennings. Among people deceased in 1961, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 48. Before him are Bulbul, Herbert Pitman, Platt Adams, Clark Ashton Smith, Max Simon, and Shigeko Higashikuni. After him are Milan Stojadinović, Anna May Wong, Henri Breuil, Robert Garrett, Maya Deren, and Paul Ramadier.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 307 out of 1,365. Before him are Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Nikolay Shchors (1895), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), and Dmitry Manuilsky (1883). After him are Franz Doppler (1821), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Alexius Meinong (1853), and Igor Sergeyev (1938).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 4. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), and Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941). After him are Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), and Vitaly Zholobov (1937).

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