ASTRONAUT

Valeri Tokarev

1952 - Today

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Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Валерий Иванович Токарев; born 29 October 1952) is a Russian Air Force colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Tokarev traveled to space twice, and has performed two career spacewalks, before retiring in June 2008. In 26 March 2009, Tokarev joined the United Russia party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeri Tokarev has received more than 27,176 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Valeri Tokarev is the 147th most popular astronaut (up from 170th in 2019), the 1,518th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,750th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Valeri Tokarevs by language

Over the past year Valeri Tokarev has had the most page views in the with 6,114 views, followed by English (3,230), and Chinese (1,662). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (165.45%), Ukrainian (100.00%), and Spanish (67.47%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valeri Tokarev ranks 147 out of 556Before him are Yuri Gidzenko, Wubbo Ockels, Christer Fuglesang, Viktor Savinykh, William R. Pogue, and Vladimir Solovyov. After him are Pavel Vinogradov, Edward Gibson, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Peggy Whitson, Vladimir Kovalyonok, and Thomas Reiter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Valeri Tokarev ranks 295Before him are Atsuyoshi Furuta, Gregory David Roberts, Erick Avari, Muhtar Kent, Irina Allegrova, and Kikki Danielsson. After him are Waldemar Victorino, Mona Hatoum, Don Miguel Ruiz, Piercarlo Ghinzani, Fernando Morena, and Jim Cummings.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Tokarev ranks 1,518 out of 3,761Before him are Irina Allegrova (1952), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Alexander Karpinsky (1846), Solomon Lozovsky (1876), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), and Daniil Shafran (1923). After him are Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), and Pavel Fedotov (1815).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valeri Tokarev ranks 46Before him are Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Viktor Savinykh (1940), and Vladimir Solovyov (1946). After him are Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Boris Morukov (1950), Yury Malyshev (1941), and Oleg Atkov (1949).