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Valery Rozhdestvensky

1939 - 2011

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Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский; 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deepsea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet. Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valery Rozhdestvensky is the 128th most popular astronaut (up from 131st in 2019), the 1,173rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,418th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 128 out of 556. Before him are Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, Mary Ellen Weber, Georgy Shonin, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Dirk Frimout, and Talgat Musabayev. After him are James McDivitt, Aleksandr Serebrov, Valery Ryumin, Boris Yegorov, Musa Manarov, and Alfred Worden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 252. Before him are Joe Clark, Dean Corll, R. Budd Dwyer, Sandro Salvadore, Lidiya Skoblikova, and Pat Crerand. After him are Bobby Hull, Telesphore Toppo, Vladimír Weiss, Valery Voronin, Valery Ryumin, and Litokwa Tomeing. Among people deceased in 2011, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 183. Before him are Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Sven Tumba, María Mercader, Romuald Klim, Norio Ohga, and James Hillman. After him are Bhupen Hazarika, Koichi Tohei, Jacques Fatton, José Alencar, Saad el-Shazly, and Elaine Stewart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 1,173 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Deripaska (1968), Johannes Virolainen (1914), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Galina Zybina (1931), and Alexander Bestuzhev (1797). After him are Anna Filosofova (1837), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Olena Teliha (1906), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), and Alexander Karpinsky (1846).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Valery Rozhdestvensky ranks 29. Before him are Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Viktor Afanasyev (1948), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Gennady Padalka (1958), Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940). After him are Aleksandr Serebrov (1944), Valery Ryumin (1939), Boris Yegorov (1937), Boris Volynov (1934), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), and Georgy Grechko (1931).

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