ASTRONAUT

Andriyan Nikolayev

1929 - 2004

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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash and Russian: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев; 5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it considered the first Turkic cosmonaut. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andriyan Nikolayev is the 33rd most popular astronaut (down from 16th in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from Russia (down from 341st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Andriyan Nikolayev is most famous for being the first human to orbit the Earth in space.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 33 out of 556Before him are David M. Brown, Svetlana Savitskaya, Gerald Carr, Owen Garriott, William C. McCool, and Edgar Mitchell. After him are Jim Lovell, David Scott, Mark Kelly, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Pavel Popovich, and Valery Bykovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 106Before him are Pierre Brice, Abdel Halim Hafez, Isabel Sarli, Peter L. Berger, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar. After him are Joan Plowright, Michael Atiyah, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Věra Chytilová, and Branko Zebec. Among people deceased in 2004, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 49Before him are Masanori Tokita, Takeshi Kamo, Marvin Heemeyer, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Saizo Saito. After him are Otto Kumm, Theo van Gogh, Norberto Bobbio, Hubert Selby Jr., Franz König, and Arthur Hailey.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 428 out of 3,761Before him are Daniil Kharms (1905), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), Lyubov Popova (1889), Rinat Dasayev (1957), Sergei Taneyev (1856), and Naum Gabo (1890). After him are Eduard Khil (1934), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Dmitry of Uglich (1582), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Andriyan Nikolayev ranks 7Before him are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1948). After him are Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Viktor Gorbatko (1934).