ASTRONAUT

Yuri Gagarin

1934 - 1968

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Gagarin has received more than 11,061,677 page views. His biography is available in 164 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 155 in 2019). Yuri Gagarin is the most popular astronaut, the 6th most popular biography from Russia (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronaut.

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space.

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  • 164

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.27

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  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1 out of 556. After him are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Vladimir Komarov, Alexei Leonov, John Glenn, Gherman Titov, and Alan Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Charles Manson, Leonard Cohen, Albert II of Belgium, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Giorgio Armani, Maggie Smith, Gene Cernan, Carl Sagan, and Nana Mouskouri. Among people deceased in 1968, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Helen Keller, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Luther King Jr., Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 6 out of 3,761. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), and Vladimir Putin (1952). After him are Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), 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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