1937 - 1961
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 356,664 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Valentin Bondarenko is the 45th most popular astronaut (up from 52nd in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 282nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 45 out of 524. Before him are Vladislav Volkov, Valeri Kubasov, Fred Haise, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Vladimir Shatalov, and Pavel Belyayev. After him are Jean-Loup Chrétien, Ken Mattingly, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Thomas P. Stafford, and Mirosław Hermaszewski.
1935 - 1971
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 39
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 40
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 41
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 42
1927 - 2021
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 43
1925 - 1970
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 44
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 45
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 46
1936 - 2023
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 47
1927 - 2004
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 48
1923 - 2007
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 49
1930 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 50
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 51
Among people born in 1937, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 122. Before him are Emerich Jenei, Tom Courtenay, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Edward Fox, Aleksandr Medved, and Monkey Punch. After him are Bella Akhmadulina, Eugen Doga, Amos Tversky, Carmen Pereira, Jovan Divjak, and Facundo Cabral. Among people deceased in 1961, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 42. Before him are Werner Jaeger, Zoltán Tildy, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Maya Deren, Clark Ashton Smith, and Herbert Pitman. After him are Anna May Wong, Henri Breuil, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Max Simon, Mei Lanfang, and Milan Stojadinović.
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 116
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 117
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 118
1937 - Present
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 119
1937 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 120
1937 - 2019
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 121
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 122
1937 - 2010
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 123
1937 - Present
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 124
1937 - 1996
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 125
1937 - 2016
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 126
1937 - 2021
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 127
1937 - 2011
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 128
1888 - 1961
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 36
1889 - 1961
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 37
1876 - 1961
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 38
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 39
1893 - 1961
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 40
1877 - 1961
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 41
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 42
1905 - 1961
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 43
1877 - 1961
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 44
1898 - 1961
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 45
1899 - 1961
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 46
1894 - 1961
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 47
1888 - 1961
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 48
Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 271 out of 1,083. Before him are Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Muhammad Asad (1900), and Maurycy Gottlieb (1856). After him are Moisei Uritsky (1873), Zbigniew Cybulski (1927), Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Lina Kostenko (1930), and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918).
1104 - 1146
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 265
1907 - 1989
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 266
1923 - 1983
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 267
1975 - Present
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 268
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 269
1856 - 1879
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 270
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 271
1873 - 1918
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 272
1927 - 1967
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 273
1883 - 1959
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 274
1856 - 1953
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 275
1930 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 276
1918 - 1970
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 277
Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 3. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930) and Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928). After him are 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).
1930 - 2009
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 1
1928 - 1971
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 2
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 4
1921 - 1995
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 6
1941 - 2010
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 8
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 9
1951 - 2018
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 10
1935 - 1997
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 11
1937 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12