ASTRONAUT

Georgy Beregovoy

1921 - 1995

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Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й, Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. At the time of his space flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Beregovoy is the 69th most popular astronaut (down from 59th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 328th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Georgy Beregovoy ranks 69 out of 556. Before him are Jean-Loup Chrétien, Sunita Williams, Bruce McCandless II, Claude Nicollier, Toyohiro Akiyama, and Barry E. Wilmore. After him are Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Toktar Aubakirov, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Ken Mattingly, and Viktor Gorbatko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Georgy Beregovoy ranks 142. Before him are Vasco Gonçalves, Sena Jurinac, John Money, Dinko Šakić, Neslişah Sultan, and Shin Kyuk-ho. After him are Darío Moreno, Ann Savage, Abe Vigoda, Ilse Aichinger, Daniel Gélin, and Alphonse Massamba-Débat. Among people deceased in 1995, Georgy Beregovoy ranks 102. Before him are Gabriel Urgebadze, Dirceu, Kingsley Amis, Ida Lupino, Mia Martini, and Juan Carlos Onganía. After him are J. Presper Eckert, Sylvester Stadler, Srinagarindra, Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, and Fred West.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georgy Beregovoy ranks 320 out of 1,365. Before him are Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Borys Paton (1918), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Irina Press (1939), and Vitaliy Masol (1928). After him are Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Nikolay Shmatko (1943), Salo Flohr (1908), Alexius Meinong (1853), Yaakov Dori (1899), and Igor Shafarevich (1923).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Georgy Beregovoy ranks 4. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), and Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941). After him are Leonid Popov (1945), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), and Leonid Kadeniuk (1951).

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