ASTRONAUT

Valeri Polyakov

1942 - 2022

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Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. His combined space experience was more than 22 months.Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeri Polyakov has received more than 867,462 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Valeri Polyakov is the 15th most popular astronaut (up from 21st in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Russia (up from 429th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Valeri Polyakovs by language

Over the past year Valeri Polyakov has had the most page views in the with 86,096 views, followed by Russian (29,063), and Turkish (9,107). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (278.07%), Turkish (185.84%), and Central Bicolano (177.27%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valeri Polyakov ranks 15 out of 556. Before him are Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Alan Shepard, Dennis Tito, and Svetlana Savitskaya. After him are Andriyan Nikolayev, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt, James Irwin, Frank Borman, and Sigmund Jähn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Valeri Polyakov ranks 85. Before him are Peter Greenaway, Hissène Habré, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, John Cale, Jean-Claude Trichet, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. After him are George Jung, Donna Leon, Maria Kaczyńska, Amine Gemayel, Pál Schmitt, and Bert Sakmann. Among people deceased in 2022, Valeri Polyakov ranks 54. Before him are Angelo Badalamenti, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Louise Fletcher, Meat Loaf, Antonio Inoki, and Arata Isozaki. After him are James Lovelock, Hardy Krüger, Stanislav Shushkevich, Issei Sagawa, Robert Curl, and Siniša Mihajlović.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Polyakov ranks 337 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry of Uglich (1582), Simeon of Moscow (1316), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), and Vasily Blokhin (1895). After him are Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), and Anatoly Sobchak (1937).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valeri Polyakov ranks 7. Before him are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1948). After him are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Yury Romanenko (1944), and Sergei Krikalev (1958).

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