ASTRONAUT

Valery Bykovsky

1934 - 2019

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Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; 2 August 1934 – 27 March 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valery Bykovsky has received more than 158,353 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Valery Bykovsky is the 35th most popular astronaut (down from 27th in 2019), the 556th most popular biography from Russia (down from 466th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

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  • 58.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valery Bykovsky ranks 35 out of 556. Before him are Edgar Mitchell, Michael P. Anderson, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke, and Ilan Ramon. After him are Fred Haise, Bruce McCandless II, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, Vladislav Volkov, and Valeri Kubasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Valery Bykovsky ranks 100. Before him are Allen Carr, Ornella Vanoni, Miguel de la Madrid, Clive Granger, Victor French, and Mohamed Ennaceur. After him are Khun Sa, Alasdair Gray, Cláudio Hummes, Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, and Jean Sorel. Among people deceased in 2019, Valery Bykovsky ranks 91. Before him are Johnny Kitagawa, Yukiya Amano, Tomi Ungerer, Jonas Mekas, Köbi Kuhn, and Dina bint Abdul-Hamid. After him are Valentina Cortese, Rafi Eitan, Mirjana Marković, Alasdair Gray, Robert Frank, and Dušan Makavejev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valery Bykovsky ranks 556 out of 3,761. Before him are Martiros Saryan (1880), Boris Pugo (1937), Werner Kempf (1886), Marina Raskova (1912), Natalia Pushkina (1812), and Vasily Chapayev (1887). After him are Mikhail Tomsky (1880), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Lauri Kristian Relander (1883), Konstantin Simonov (1915), and Valery Gergiev (1953).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valery Bykovsky ranks 9. Before him are Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Valeri Polyakov (1942), and Andriyan Nikolayev (1929). After him are Vladislav Volkov (1935), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Yury Romanenko (1944), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Pavel Belyayev (1925).

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