ASTRONAUT

Boris Morukov

1950 - 2015

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Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Моруков; 1 October 1950 – 1 January 2015) was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-106 as a mission specialist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Morukov is the 175th most popular astronaut (down from 169th in 2019), the 1,538th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,761st in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Boris Morukov ranks 175 out of 556. Before him are Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Valentin Lebedev, Ronald McNair, Anatoly Solovyev, Yi So-yeon, and Edward Gibson. After him are Valentina Ponomaryova, Lodewijk van den Berg, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Christer Fuglesang, and William H. Dana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Boris Morukov ranks 328. Before him are Lee Wan-koo, Kate Nelligan, Mathieu Carrière, Dave Stewart, Carlos Caszely, and Lou Gramm. After him are Rambhadracharya, Rosi Mittermaier, René Fasel, Arturo Márquez, Rino Gaetano, and Francis Collins. Among people deceased in 2015, Boris Morukov ranks 271. Before him are Florence Arthaud, Theodore Bikel, Ludvík Vaculík, Manorama, Karel Mejta Sr, and Ellsworth Kelly. After him are Charles Pasqua, Francis George, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Mate Trojanović, Astrid Ivask, and Roberto Tucci.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Morukov ranks 1,538 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Piontkovsky (1940), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Marietta Shaginyan (1888), Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), and Hadiya Davletshina (1905). After him are Mikhail Simonov (1929), Galimzyan Khusainov (1937), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Vera Glagoleva (1956), and Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Boris Morukov ranks 45. Before him are Lev Dyomin (1926), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Yury Glazkov (1939), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Valentin Lebedev (1942). After him are Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Oleg Atkov (1949), and Yury Malyshev (1941).

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