ASTRONAUT

Valeri Kubasov

1935 - 2014

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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo–Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valeri Kubasov is the 52nd most popular astronaut (down from 41st in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Russia (up from 596th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valeri Kubasov ranks 52 out of 556. Before him are Georgy Dobrovolsky, Alan Bean, Valeri Polyakov, Sergei Krikalev, Charles Duke, and Don L. Lind. After him are Frank Borman, Vladislav Volkov, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Gordon Cooper, Ellison Onizuka, and Wally Schirra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Valeri Kubasov ranks 103. Before him are Hillel Furstenberg, Masahito, Prince Hitachi, Robert Silverberg, Thomas Keneally, Luis del Sol, and André Brink. After him are Mohamed Choukri, Ron Paul, Dharmendra, Justin Francis Rigali, Marina Doria, and Lyudmila Gurchenko. Among people deceased in 2014, Valeri Kubasov ranks 94. Before him are Alice Herz-Sommer, Ben Bradlee, Oscar de la Renta, Stuart Hall, Gottfried John, and Ralph H. Baer. After him are Christopher Jones, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Jack Bruce, Fred Phelps, Run Run Shaw, and Menahem Golan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Kubasov ranks 574 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874), and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825). After him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Nikolai Golitsyn (1850), Uliana of Tver (1325), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), and Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valeri Kubasov ranks 11. Before him are Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), and Sergei Krikalev (1958). After him are Vladislav Volkov (1935), Viktor Gorbatko (1934), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Anatoly Berezovoy (1942), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), and Vyacheslav Zudov (1942).

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