ASTRONAUT

Yuri Malenchenko

1961 - Today

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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks third for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Malenchenko has received more than 251,325 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yuri Malenchenko is the 170th most popular astronaut (up from 173rd in 2019), the 730th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 664th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 170 out of 556. Before him are Joe Engle, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Theodore Freeman, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Léopold Eyharts, and Boris Morukov. After him are Paul J. Weitz, Anna Lee Fisher, Yury Malyshev, Lodewijk van den Berg, Franco Malerba, and John E. Blaha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 229. Before him are Kassim Majaliwa, Alison Moyet, Bob Dadae, Bram Moolenaar, Aaron Sorkin, and Samantha Bond. After him are Lawrence Lessig, Eric Chu, Brian Orser, José Luis Cuciuffo, Tom Byron, and Imad Khamis.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 730 out of 1,365. Before him are Eduard Mudrik (1939), Anatoliy Konkov (1949), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Ivan Kozlovsky (1900), Vladimir Maslachenko (1936), and Zellig Harris (1909). After him are Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Zinaida Turchyna (1946), Konstantin Lopushansky (1947), Natalya Meklin (1922), Vasyl Barvinsky (1888), and Mikhail Kheraskov (1733).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 16. Before him are Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Georgy Shonin (1935), Yuri Gidzenko (1962), and Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956). After him are Vladimir Vasyutin (1952), and Yury Onufriyenko (1961).

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