ASTRONAUT

Vladimir Komarov

1927 - 1967

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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kəmɐˈrof]; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Komarov has received more than 4,713,850 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 59 in 2019). Vladimir Komarov is the 8th most popular astronaut (down from 7th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Russia (down from 100th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Astronaut.

Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut who was killed during the mission Soyuz 1.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Vladimir Komarov ranks 8 out of 556. Before him are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin, and Pete Conrad. After him are Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, Alan Shepard, Dennis Tito, and Svetlana Savitskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Vladimir Komarov ranks 11. Before him are Günter Grass, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Olof Palme, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, and Peter Falk. After him are Mstislav Rostropovich, Turgut Özal, K. Alex Müller, László Kubala, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Kim Young-sam. Among people deceased in 1967, Vladimir Komarov ranks 8. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer, René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Vivien Leigh, Puyi, and Casimir Funk. After him are Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, Spencer Tracy, Zoltán Kodály, and Jack Ruby.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Komarov ranks 108 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Tokhtamysh (1342), Ilya Prigogine (1917), and Sergey Lavrov (1950). After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Boris Spassky (1937), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Alexander Kolchak (1874), and Olga of Kiev (890).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Vladimir Komarov ranks 3. Before him are Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Valentina Tereshkova (1937). After him are Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Valeri Kubasov (1935), and Yury Romanenko (1944).

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