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Valentina Ponomaryova

1933 - 2023

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Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova (Russian: Валентина Леонидовна Пономарёва; née Kovalevskaya [Ковалевская]; 18 September 1933 – 8 November 2023), was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut, pilot and scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valentina Ponomaryova is the 176th most popular astronaut (down from 57th in 2019), the 1,568th most popular biography from Russia (down from 812th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valentina Ponomaryova ranks 176 out of 556. Before her are Valentin Lebedev, Ronald McNair, Anatoly Solovyev, Yi So-yeon, Edward Gibson, and Boris Morukov. After her are Lodewijk van den Berg, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Christer Fuglesang, William H. Dana, and Donald Pettit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Valentina Ponomaryova ranks 315. Before her are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Tamás Vásáry, José Sasía, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Stanislav Lyubshin, and Sergio Valdés. After her are Allen J. Bard, James Wolfensohn, Américo Lopes, Yoshishige Yoshida, Brad Harris, and Eddie Adams. Among people deceased in 2023, Valentina Ponomaryova ranks 308. Before her are Friedel Lutz, Anton Tus, Rosi Mittermaier, Marinho Peres, Greta Andersen, and Frances Sternhagen. After her are Marcos Alonso, Jan Olsson, Hsing Yun, Américo Lopes, Guðbergur Bergsson, and Nina Matviienko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valentina Ponomaryova ranks 1,568 out of 3,761. Before her are Vitaly Solomin (1941), Alexander Lebedev (1959), Lydia Lopokova (1892), Valeri Brainin (1948), Dmitry Rybolovlev (1966), and Simon Ushakov (1626). After her are Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930), Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Maria Itkina (1932), Yuri Bondarev (1924), and Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valentina Ponomaryova ranks 46. Before her are Valeri Tokarev (1952), Yury Glazkov (1939), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Valentin Lebedev (1942), and Boris Morukov (1950). After her are Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Oleg Atkov (1949), Yury Malyshev (1941), and Gennady Sarafanov (1942).

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