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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 237,308 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yuri Malenchenko is the 173rd most popular astronaut (up from 193rd in 2019), the 667th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 606th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 173 out of 524Before him are Theodore Freeman, Clifton Williams, Eileen Collins, Valeri Tokarev, Laurel Clark, and Patrick Baudry. After him are Claudie Haigneré, Robert Crippen, Piers Sellers, Lodewijk van den Berg, Boris Morukov, and Paolo Nespoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 234Before him are Juan Carlos Osorio, Zlatko Saračević, Todd McFarlane, Laurel Clark, Curt Smith, and Yuri Milner. After him are Lauren Lane, József Szájer, Birol Ünel, Justin Fashanu, Hideo Nakata, and Anita Hegerland.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 667 out of 1,083Before him are Nikolay Davydenko (1981), Aleksandr Ponomarev (1918), Zinaida Turchyna (1946), Mark Aldanov (1886), Ani Lorak (1978), and Leo Ornstein (1895). After him are Vladimir Maslachenko (1936), Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), Alexandra Marinina (1957), Adam Rapacki (1909), Vladimir Dudintsev (1918), and Volodymyr Groysman (1978).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 14Before him are Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), and Anatoly Levchenko (1941). After him are Yuri Gidzenko (1962), Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), Yury Onufriyenko (1961), and Vladimir Vasyutin (1952).