ASTRONAUT

Valeri Kubasov

1935 - 2014

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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo–Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeri Kubasov has received more than 111,354 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Valeri Kubasov is the 41st most popular astronaut (down from 40th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Russia (up from 620th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valeri Kubasov ranks 41 out of 556. Before him are Valery Bykovsky, Fred Haise, Bruce McCandless II, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, and Vladislav Volkov. After him are Yury Romanenko, John Young, Sergei Krikalev, Viktor Patsayev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Valeri Kubasov ranks 98. Before him are Judd Hirsch, Yury Solomin, Gene Vincent, Fernando del Paso, Agne Simonsson, and Vladislav Volkov. After him are Lyudmila Gurchenko, Julian Glover, David Prowse, Marc Augé, Jack Charlton, and Princess Elisabeth of Denmark. Among people deceased in 2014, Valeri Kubasov ranks 95. Before him are Louis Zamperini, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Fred Phelps, Stuart Hall, Jack Bruce, and Mango. After him are Yitzhak Hofi, Richard Bull, Robert Hansen, Alexander Shulgin, Björn Waldegård, and Mário Coluna.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Kubasov ranks 596 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Lebed (1950), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Pavel Axelrod (1850), and Nikolai Ge (1831). After him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Yaroslav of Tver (1230), Yury Romanenko (1944), Georges Gurvitch (1894), and Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valeri Kubasov ranks 11. Before him are Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), and Vladislav Volkov (1935). After him are Yury Romanenko (1944), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), and Vyacheslav Zudov (1942).

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