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Viktor Savinykh

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Viktor Petrovich Savinykh (born 7 March 1940) is a Soviet cosmonaut, scientist, and organizer of personnel training in the higher education system. Selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz TM-5, and has spent 252 days 17 hours 38 minutes in space. Savinykh retired on 9 February 1989. Savinykh was born in Beryozkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on 7 March 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Savinykh is the 183rd most popular astronaut (down from 144th in 2019), the 1,634th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,505th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Viktor Savinykh ranks 183 out of 556. Before him are Lodewijk van den Berg, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Roy D. Bridges Jr., Christer Fuglesang, William H. Dana, and Donald Pettit. After him are Vladimir Solovyov, Theodore Freeman, Robert L. Behnken, Anatoly Levchenko, Léopold Eyharts, and Anatoly Artsebarsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Viktor Savinykh ranks 340. Before him are Levon Helm, Arthur Laffer, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Zvonko Bego, Uma Aaltonen, and Jean-Claude Andruet. After him are Godfrey Reggio, Uwe Timm, Rex Cawley, Renato Pozzetto, Albert Razin, and Rajendra K. Pachauri.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Savinykh ranks 1,634 out of 3,761. Before him are Carl Neumann (1832), Aleksey Koltsov (1809), Alexander Gradsky (1949), Alexander Men (1935), Ivan Yarygin (1948), and Natalya Bondarchuk (1950). After him are Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Yuriy Voynov (1931), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), and Leonid Kharitonov (1933).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Viktor Savinykh ranks 48. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Boris Morukov (1950), Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947). After him are Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Oleg Atkov (1949), Yury Malyshev (1941), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), Valery Korzun (1953), and Yelena Kondakova (1957).

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