ASTRONAUT

Viktor Savinykh

1940 - Today

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Viktor Petrovich Savinykh (born 7 March 1940) is a Soviet cosmonaut, scientist, and organizer of personnel training in the higher education system. Selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz TM-5, and has spent 252 days 17 hours 38 minutes in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Savinykh has received more than 86,843 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Savinykh is the 144th most popular astronaut (down from 66th in 2019), the 1,505th most popular biography from Russia (down from 913th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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  • 56.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Viktor Savinykh ranks 144 out of 556Before him are Mae Jemison, Ulf Merbold, Kenneth Cockrell, Yuri Gidzenko, Wubbo Ockels, and Christer Fuglesang. After him are William R. Pogue, Vladimir Solovyov, Valeri Tokarev, Pavel Vinogradov, Edward Gibson, and Tatyana Kuznetsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Viktor Savinykh ranks 302Before him are Lainie Kazan, Giacomo Bulgarelli, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Renato Pozzetto, William Cohen, and Bill Medley. After him are Brigitte Hamann, Arthur Laffer, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Amjad Khan, Claus Offe, and Léon Semmeling.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Savinykh ranks 1,505 out of 3,761Before him are Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), Oleg Vidov (1943), Aleksei Evert (1857), Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842), Yakov Frenkel (1894), and Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827). After him are Helene Fischer (1984), Boris Eikhenbaum (1886), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), Aleksey Koltsov (1809), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), and Edwin Linkomies (1894).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Viktor Savinykh ranks 44Before him are Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Boris Yegorov (1937), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), and Gennady Sarafanov (1942). After him are Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), Valentin Lebedev (1942), and Boris Morukov (1950).