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Gennady Padalka

1958 - Today

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Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position. He worked on both Mir and the International Space Station. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Padalka is the 109th most popular astronaut (up from 112th in 2019), the 1,060th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gennady Padalka ranks 109 out of 556. Before him are Yevgeny Khrunov, Douglas G. Hurley, Yang Liwei, Leonid Kizim, Viktor Afanasyev, and Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov. After him are Aleksandr Viktorenko, Gregory Jarvis, Deke Slayton, Steve MacLean, Wubbo Ockels, and Phạm Tuân.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Gennady Padalka ranks 130. Before him are Nancy Spungen, Natalya Estemirova, Didier Reynders, Yoshito Usui, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Kevin Sorbo. After him are Luísa Diogo, Didier Auriol, Gary Peters, Eddie Lawson, Luis Guillermo Solís, and Domenico Dolce.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 1,060 out of 3,761. Before him are Muslim Magomayev (1885), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), Nikolay Raevsky (1771), Sergey Uvarov (1786), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), and Pavel Postyshev (1887). After him are Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (1897), Anna Demidova (1878), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), Pavel Dybenko (1889), and Mikhail Kovalyov (1897).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Gennady Padalka ranks 26. Before him are Yuri Artyukhin (1930), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Viktor Afanasyev (1948), and Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943). After him are Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Aleksandr Serebrov (1944), Valery Ryumin (1939), and Boris Yegorov (1937).

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