ASTRONAUT

Vladimir Lyakhov

1941 - 2018

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Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov (Ukrainian: Володимир Афана́сійович Ляхов; Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич Ля́хов; 20 July 1941 – 19 April 2018) was a Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as cosmonaut on 5 May 1967, and retired on 7 September 1994. Lyakhov was the Commander on Soyuz 32, Soyuz T-9, and Soyuz TM-6, and spent 333 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes in space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Lyakhov has received more than 51,466 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vladimir Lyakhov is the 104th most popular astronaut (down from 94th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 443rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 104 out of 556. Before him are Valery Ryumin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Deke Slayton, Dirk Frimout, Scott Carpenter, and Pyotr Klimuk. After him are Georgy Grechko, Lev Dyomin, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Yury Glazkov, Bertalan Farkas, and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 246. Before him are Dirk Frimout, Yevhen Marchuk, Lucien Aimar, Steve Cropper, Randall Collins, and Vitaly Solomin. After him are Georges Heylens, Desmond Dekker, Anne Tyler, George Clinton, George Pell, and Roberto Calasso. Among people deceased in 2018, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 178. Before him are Kim Larsen, Joseph Joffo, Serhiy Tkach, Kirin Kiki, Michael Halliday, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva. After him are Tab Hunter, Edgar Hilsenrath, Penny Marshall, Jesús López Cobos, Zhores Medvedev, and Abbas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 473 out of 1,365. Before him are Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Pinhas Lavon (1904), and Alexander Mosolov (1900). After him are Alexander Vertinsky (1889), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Nina Bocharova (1924), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Alexander Potebnja (1835), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 9. Before him are Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), Leonid Kizim (1941), and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948). After him are Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Georgy Shonin (1935), Yuri Gidzenko (1962), and Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956).

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