ASTRONAUT

Vladimir Lyakhov

1941 - 2018

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Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov (Ukrainian: Володимир Афана́сійович Ляхов; Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич Ля́хов; 20 July 1941 – 19 April 2018) was a Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as cosmonaut on 5 May 1967, and retired on 7 September 1994. Lyakhov was the Commander on Soyuz 32, Soyuz T-9, and Soyuz TM-6, and spent 333 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes in space. He was married and had two children. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Lyakhov is the 91st most popular astronaut (up from 104th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 91 out of 556. Before him are Vyacheslav Zudov, Leonid Popov, Kalpana Chawla, Aleksei Gubarev, Walter Cunningham, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. After him are Stuart Roosa, Yury Romanenko, Yuri Artyukhin, Scott Carpenter, Andy Thomas, and Valentin Bondarenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 217. Before him are Yoshiyuki Tomino, Leslie Lamport, Carla Gravina, Bruce Nauman, Josep Maria Mauri, and David Crystal. After him are Lothar Emmerich, Jim "Bad News" Barnes, Bohdan Stupka, Amir Pnueli, R. James Woolsey Jr., and Menzies Campbell. Among people deceased in 2018, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 151. Before him are Roger Piantoni, Oleg Tabakov, Venantino Venantini, Neil Simon, Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, and David Ogden Stiers. After him are Margit Sandemo, Leila Abashidze, Sergio Marchionne, Đỗ Mười, Nicolas Roeg, and Dan Gurney.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 375 out of 1,365. Before him are Danylo Apostol (1654), Pavlo Lazarenko (1953), Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Dmytro Dontsov (1883), and Emanuel Feuermann (1902). After him are Jacques Bergier (1912), Ingeborg of Kiev (1100), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Bohdan Stupka (1941), and Dmitry Levitzky (1735).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Vladimir Lyakhov ranks 6. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Georgy Dobrovolsky (1928), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), Georgy Beregovoy (1921), and Leonid Popov (1945). After him are Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Leonid Kizim (1941), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), and Leonid Kadeniuk (1951).

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