1941 - 2018
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 48,488 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Vladimir Lyakhov is the 94th most popular astronaut (down from 78th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 373rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.
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Among astronauts, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 94 out of 524. Before him are Stuart Roosa, Alfred Worden, Gennady Padalka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Walter Cunningham, and Ulf Merbold. After him are Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Sunita Williams, Toyohiro Akiyama, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Muhammed Faris, and Donn F. Eisele.
1933 - 1994
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 88
1932 - 2020
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 89
1958 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 90
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 91
1932 - 2023
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 92
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 93
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 94
1932 - 2002
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 95
1965 - Present
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 96
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 97
1933 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 98
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 99
1930 - 1987
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 100
Among people born in 1941, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 251. Before him are Gregory Benford, Lothar Bisky, Lothar Emmerich, Vlado Milunić, Pino Donaggio, and Ulf Merbold. After him are Tania Mallet, Jacques Simon, Margitta Gummel, Martine Beswick, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Ahmed al-Mirghani. Among people deceased in 2018, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 183. Before him are Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Robert Indiana, Sergio Balanzino, Lindsay Kemp, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, and Juraj Herz. After him are Karl Lehmann, Frank Carlucci, Luigi Taveri, Luis Posada Carriles, Penny Marshall, and Siegfried Rauch.
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 245
1941 - 2013
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 246
1941 - 2003
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 247
1941 - 2022
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 248
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 249
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 250
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 251
1941 - 2019
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 252
1941 - 2017
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 253
1941 - 2021
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 254
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 255
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 256
1941 - 2008
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 257
1931 - 2018
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 177
1928 - 2018
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 178
1934 - 2018
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 179
1938 - 2018
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 180
1937 - 2018
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 181
1934 - 2018
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 182
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 183
1936 - 2018
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 184
1930 - 2018
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 185
1929 - 2018
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 186
1928 - 2018
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 187
1943 - 2018
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 188
1932 - 2018
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 189
Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 446 out of 1,083. Before him are Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), Georges Florovsky (1893), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Georgi Todorov (1858), and Rose Ausländer (1901). After him are Marian Jaworski (1926), Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923), Ber Borochov (1881), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Vitold Fokin (1932), and Oleksii Reznikov (1966).
1877 - 1932
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 440
1755 - 1808
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 441
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 442
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 443
1858 - 1934
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 444
1901 - 1988
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 445
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 446
1926 - 2020
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 447
1923 - 2017
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 448
1881 - 1917
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 449
1890 - 1963
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 450
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 451
1966 - Present
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 452
Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 9. Before him are Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), Leonid Kizim (1941), and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948). After him are Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Yuri Malenchenko (1961), and Yuri Gidzenko (1962).
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 4
1921 - 1995
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 6
1941 - 2010
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 8
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 9
1951 - 2018
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 10
1935 - 1997
HPI: 49.64
Rank: 11
1937 - Present
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 12
1941 - 1988
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 13
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 14
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.40
Rank: 15