ASTRONAUT

Valery Rozhdestvensky

1939 - 2011

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Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский; 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valery Rozhdestvensky has received more than 27,378 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Valery Rozhdestvensky is the 131st most popular astronaut (down from 125th in 2019), the 1,418th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,361st in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 131 out of 556. Before him are Toyohiro Akiyama, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Solovyev, Georgy Shonin, and Oleg Kononenko. After him are Gennadi Strekalov, Vance D. Brand, Sunita Williams, Gennady Sarafanov, Dumitru Prunariu, and Roberta Bondar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 300. Before him are Mengálvio Pedro Figueiró, Irenaios, William Eggleston, Ivar Jacobson, Joseph Vilsmaier, and Judy Collins. After him are Giulio Angioni, Litokwa Tomeing, Sid Haig, Adam Osborne, Jackie Burroughs, and Harold E. Varmus. Among people deceased in 2011, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 215. Before him are Takaji Mori, Shigeo Yaegashi, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Vang Pao, Coen Moulijn, and Nicol Williamson. After him are Robert Ballaman, Friedrich Kittler, Ludo Martens, Ida Fink, George Devol, and Jeff Conaway.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 1,418 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Sophia Parnok (1885), Marie Vassilieff (1884), Antonina Makarova (1920), and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874). After him are Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), Vladimir Potanin (1961), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Ivan Pyryev (1901), Nikolay Novikov (1744), and Yevgeny Morgunov (1927).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 41. Before him are Gennady Padalka (1958), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Boris Yegorov (1937), and Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934). After him are Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Valeri Tokarev (1952), and Pavel Vinogradov (1953).

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