ASTRONAUT

Vladislav Volkov

1935 - 1971

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Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Владислав Николаевич Волков; 23 November 1935 – 30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov and the two other crew members were asphyxiated on reentry, the only three people to have died in outer space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladislav Volkov is the 54th most popular astronaut (down from 40th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from Russia (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Vladislav Volkov ranks 54 out of 556Before him are Valeri Polyakov, Sergei Krikalev, Charles Duke, Don L. Lind, Valeri Kubasov, and Frank Borman. After him are Mirosław Hermaszewski, Gordon Cooper, Ellison Onizuka, Wally Schirra, Fred Haise, and Viktor Patsayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vladislav Volkov ranks 116Before him are Dick McTaggart, Agne Simonsson, Tsutomu Hata, Dominique Venner, Bruno Sammartino, and Mário Coluna. After him are Julian Glover, Michael Walzer, Judd Hirsch, Fabio Cudicini, Terry Riley, and Gene Vincent. Among people deceased in 1971, Vladislav Volkov ranks 59Before him are Carlos P. Garcia, Edie Sedgwick, Ub Iwerks, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Philippe Thys, and Archduchess Adelheid of Austria. After him are Jo Siffert, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Reinhold Niebuhr, Shunryū Suzuki, T. V. Soong, and Paul Lukas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladislav Volkov ranks 631 out of 3,761Before him are Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Tode Mongke (1282), Lilya Brik (1891), Valery Gergiev (1953), and Vasily Alekseyev (1942). After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Pavel Axelrod (1850), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), and Boris Sheremetev (1652).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Vladislav Volkov ranks 12Before him are Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Sergei Krikalev (1958), and Valeri Kubasov (1935). After him are Viktor Gorbatko (1934), Pavel Belyayev (1925), Anatoly Berezovoy (1942), Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Vyacheslav Zudov (1942), and Aleksei Gubarev (1931).