ASTRONAUT

Viktor Afanasyev

1948 - Today

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Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Афанасьев; born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He was born 31 December 1948, in Bryansk, Russian SFSR, and is married to Yelena Ya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Afanasyev has received more than 6,421 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Viktor Afanasyev is the 82nd most popular astronaut (up from 112th in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,241st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Astronaut.

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  • 60.34

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Viktor Afanasyev ranks 82 out of 556. Before him are Konstantin Feoktistov, Georgi Ivanov, Leonid Popov, Rakesh Sharma, Judith Resnik, and Rusty Schweickart. After him are Boris Volynov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, James McDivitt, Yevgeny Khrunov, William Anders, and Anatoly Filipchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Viktor Afanasyev ranks 210. Before him are Pam Ferris, Abdelmalek Sellal, Marisol, Sho Kosugi, László Lovász, and Terry Goodkind. After him are Lalu Prasad Yadav, Pavel Grachev, Patty Pravo, Claude Le Roy, Enrique Cerezo, and Pietro Anastasi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Afanasyev ranks 968 out of 3,761. Before him are Nadezhda Durova (1783), Pavel Pestel (1793), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), and Mikhail Romm (1901). After him are Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), Peter Struve (1870), Igor Strelkov (1970), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), and Viktoria Brezhneva (1907).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Viktor Afanasyev ranks 22. Before him are Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), Vyacheslav Zudov (1942), Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Viktor Gorbatko (1934), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), and Konstantin Feoktistov (1926). After him are Boris Volynov (1934), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), Aleksandr Serebrov (1944), and Anatoly Berezovoy (1942).

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