ASTRONAUT

Vitaly Sevastyanov

1935 - 2010

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Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft. He also lectured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In 1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vitaly Sevastyanov is the 162nd most popular astronaut (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,405th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,306th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Vitaly Sevastyanov ranks 162 out of 556. Before him are Lev Dyomin, Mike Massimino, Michael Foreman, Chiaki Mukai, Valeri Tokarev, and Yury Glazkov. After him are Roberta Bondar, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Paul J. Weitz, Leonid Kadeniuk, and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vitaly Sevastyanov ranks 260. Before him are Ryhor Baradulin, Joan Harrison, Sergei Yursky, José Ramos Delgado, Imre Makovecz, and Eiko Kadono. After him are Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Laurent Terzieff, Andréa Parisy, Belinda Lee, Doug McClure, and Valentin Gaft. Among people deceased in 2010, Vitaly Sevastyanov ranks 220. Before him are José Ramos Delgado, Valentina Tolkunova, Marina Semyonova, Ed Roberts, Kenneth Noland, and Robin Milner. After him are Alex Higgins, Laurent Terzieff, Hank Jones, Chushiro Hayashi, Otmar Suitner, and Yuri Ilyenko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vitaly Sevastyanov ranks 1,405 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Yury Glazkov (1939), Apollon Maykov (1821), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Alexander Petrov (1799), and Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859). After him are Eugen Slutsky (1880), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Igor Sechin (1960), Vera Gaze (1899), Julia Volkova (1985), and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Vitaly Sevastyanov ranks 42. Before him are Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Lev Dyomin (1926), Valeri Tokarev (1952), and Yury Glazkov (1939). After him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Boris Morukov (1950), Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947), and Viktor Savinykh (1940).

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