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Konstantin Feoktistov

1926 - 2009

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Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (Russian: Константин Петрович Феоктистов; 7 February 1926 – 21 November 2009), was Russian engineer and a cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program. As a cosmonaut Feoktistov flew on Voskhod 1, the first spacecraft to carry three crew members. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konstantin Feoktistov is the 99th most popular astronaut (down from 76th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Russia (up from 940th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Konstantin Feoktistov ranks 99 out of 556. Before him are Yury Romanenko, Yuri Artyukhin, Scott Carpenter, Andy Thomas, Valentin Bondarenko, and Anatoly Filipchenko. After him are Kathryn D. Sullivan, Donn F. Eisele, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Yevgeny Khrunov, Douglas G. Hurley, and Yang Liwei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Konstantin Feoktistov ranks 186. Before him are Paul Janssen, Richard Anderson, Raul Hilberg, Lenny Montana, Shin Sang-ok, and André Delvaux. After him are Mieczysław Rakowski, Alfred Körner, Sonja Ziemann, Judith Malina, Ivica Horvat, and Ingrid Haebler. Among people deceased in 2009, Konstantin Feoktistov ranks 133. Before him are Meir Amit, Eric Woolfson, Sidney Wood, Giovanni Arrighi, Francisco Ayala, and Walter Cronkite. After him are Willy DeVille, Budd Schulberg, Frank McCourt, Marilyn Chambers, Abdellatif Filali, and Karl Koller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Konstantin Feoktistov ranks 934 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Luzin (1883), Oskari Friman (1893), Viktoria Brezhneva (1907), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734), and Mikhail Yangel (1911). After him are Walter Krupinski (1920), Franz Overbeck (1837), Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Emil Wiechert (1861), Andrey Myagkov (1938), and Vadim Bakatin (1937).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Konstantin Feoktistov ranks 22. Before him are Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vyacheslav Zudov (1942), Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Yury Romanenko (1944), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), and Anatoly Filipchenko (1928). After him are Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Viktor Afanasyev (1948), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Gennady Padalka (1958), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940).

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