ASTRONAUT

Pavel Popovich

1930 - 2009

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Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич; Ukrainian: Павло́ Рома́нович Попо́вич, romanized: Pavló Románovych Popóvych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Popovich was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, the eighth person and first Ukrainian in space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Popovich is the 38th most popular astronaut (down from 25th in 2024), the 173rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 176th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Pavel Popovich ranks 38 out of 556. Before him are Edgar Mitchell, Andriyan Nikolayev, Jim Lovell, David Scott, Mark Kelly, and Margaret Rhea Seddon. After him are Valery Bykovsky, Gus Grissom, Ilan Ramon, James Irwin, Henry Hartsfield, and Roger B. Chaffee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pavel Popovich ranks 101. Before him are Michal Kováč, Mario Adorf, Martin Karplus, Choe Yong-rim, Hilderaldo Bellini, and Mauro Ramos. After him are Ben Gazzara, Robert Loggia, Richard Donner, Rod Taylor, William C. Campbell, and Tadao Kobayashi. Among people deceased in 2009, Pavel Popovich ranks 51. Before him are Günther Rall, Edwin G. Krebs, Juan Almeida Bosque, Marek Edelman, Patrick McGoohan, and Rafael Caldera. After him are Clive Granger, Albert Barillé, Sverre Fehn, Sergey Mikhalkov, Kazumi Takada, and Toni Sailer.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Pavel Popovich ranks 173 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Sirko (1610), Alexander Pechersky (1909), Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), and Maria Prymachenko (1908). After him are Jacob Frank (1726), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), and Otto Preminger (1905).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Pavel Popovich ranks 1. After him are Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), 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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