ASTRONAUT

Valentin Bondarenko

1937 - 1961

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Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko (Russian: Валентин Васильевич Бондаренко; Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Бондаренко; 16 February 1937 – 23 March 1961) was a Soviet fighter pilot selected in 1960 for training as a cosmonaut. He died as the result of burns sustained in a fire during a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow. The Soviet government concealed the death, along with Bondarenko's membership in the cosmonaut corps, until 1980. A crater on the Moon's far side is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 24 in 2024). Valentin Bondarenko is the 97th most popular astronaut (down from 54th in 2024), the 393rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 307th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 97 out of 556. Before him are Vladimir Lyakhov, Stuart Roosa, Yury Romanenko, Yuri Artyukhin, Scott Carpenter, and Andy Thomas. After him are Anatoly Filipchenko, Konstantin Feoktistov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Donn F. Eisele, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, and Yevgeny Khrunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 184. Before him are Jay Rockefeller, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Monica Zetterlund, Seymour Hersh, Don Bluth, and Maria Teresa Horta. After him are Giovanni Arrighi, Maryan Wisniewski, Gustavo Noboa, Anna Hazare, Dick Dale, and Vadim Bakatin. Among people deceased in 1961, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 74. Before him are Vanessa Bell, Kjeld Abell, Charles Coburn, Nina Bari, Lucian Blaga, and Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy. After him are Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Anton Flettner, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Ty Cobb.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 393 out of 1,365. Before him are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Abraham Zapruder (1905), Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846), and Yevhen Marchuk (1941). After him are Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Valentin Kataev (1897), Sydir Kovpak (1887), Anatoly Onoprienko (1959), and Eugen Schauman (1875).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Valentin Bondarenko ranks 7. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), Leonid Popov (1945), and Vladimir Lyakhov (1941). After him are Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), and Anatoly Levchenko (1941).

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