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Leonid Kadeniuk

1951 - 2018

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Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine to fly into outer space. In 1997, he flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadenyuk held the rank of major general in the Ukrainian Air Force. He was Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation, adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, and Honorary Doctor of Chernivtsi National University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Kadeniuk is the 167th most popular astronaut (down from 116th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 512th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 167 out of 556. Before him are Yury Glazkov, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Roberta Bondar, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Kovalyonok, and Paul J. Weitz. After him are Fyodor Yurchikhin, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Valentin Lebedev, Ronald McNair, Anatoly Solovyev, and Yi So-yeon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 288. Before him are Alfredo Astiz, Catherine Hicks, Tony Amendola, Yvonne Farrell, Margo Martindale, and Rosa Montero. After him are Zalmay Khalilzad, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Waldir Peres, Stanley Clarke, Anatoly Alyabyev, and Dragan Pantelić. Among people deceased in 2018, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 255. Before him are Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Lisbeth Palme, Abbas, Apisai Ielemia, Ferenc Kósa, and Anna Maria Ferrero. After him are André Lerond, Claudio Scimone, Inge Borkh, Kim Yong-chun, Tomás Maldonado, and Vinnie Paul.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 587 out of 1,365. Before him are Nikolay Girs (1820), Viktor Knorre (1840), Roman Karmen (1906), Boris Mikhailov (1938), Victor Pinchuk (1960), and Lev Kerbel (1917). After him are Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905), Leo Deutsch (1855), Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Pinhas Lavon (1904), and Kazimierz Nowak (1897).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Leonid Kadeniuk ranks 12. Before him are Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Georgy Shonin (1935), and Vitaly Zholobov (1937). After him are Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Yuri Gidzenko (1962), Vladimir Vasyutin (1952), and Yury Onufriyenko (1961).

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