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Nikolai Budarin

1953 - Today

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Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born 29 April 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours. Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Budarin is the 270th most popular astronaut (down from 236th in 2019), the 2,213th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,261st in 2019) and the 60th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Nikolai Budarin ranks 270 out of 556. Before him are Joe F. Edwards Jr., Vladimir Vasyutin, Jerry L. Ross, Pedro Duque, Eileen Collins, and John Herrington. After him are Gregory R. Wiseman, Yury Onufriyenko, Robert F. Overmyer, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Daniel Brandenstein, and Yury Usachov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Nikolai Budarin ranks 437. Before him are Dražen Mužinić, Julia Navarro, Jocelerme Privert, Glykeria, Ljupčo Jordanovski, and Ma Jian. After him are Ella Pamfilova, Christopher Franke, Alister McGrath, Bernard Tchoullouyan, Paweł Janas, and Yekta Uzunoglu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Budarin ranks 2,213 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Perovsky (1795), Maria Golubnichaya (1924), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), Dmitry Nazarov (1957), Vyacheslav Starshinov (1940), and Leonid Shamkovich (1923). After him are Yuli Raizman (1903), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Aleksei Paramonov (1925), Vladimir Astapovsky (1946), and Irina Levitina (1954).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Nikolai Budarin ranks 60. Before him are Yelena Kondakova (1957), Sergei Avdeyev (1956), Yuri Baturin (1949), Mikhail Tyurin (1960), Aleksandr Laveykin (1951), and Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (1953). After him are Yury Usachov (1957), Vasily Tsibliyev (1954), Aleksandr Lazutkin (1957), Mikhail Kornienko (1960), Aleksandr Poleshchuk (1953), and Yuri Shargin (1960).

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