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Yuri Gidzenko

1962 - Today

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Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Юрий Павлович Гидзенко; born March 26, 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown into space three times and has lived on board the Mir and the International Space Station. He has also conducted two career spacewalks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Gidzenko is the 239th most popular astronaut (down from 141st in 2024), the 845th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 626th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Gidzenko ranks 239 out of 556. Before him are Robert S. Kimbrough, Ivan Bella, Sergei Avdeyev, Barbara Morgan, Yuri Baturin, and James P. Bagian. After him are Mikhail Tyurin, Jeffrey Williams, Samantha Cristoforetti, Joseph P. Kerwin, Aleksandr Laveykin, and André Kuipers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Yuri Gidzenko ranks 322. Before him are Ivica Barbarić, Ahn Cheol-soo, Berry van Aerle, Choi Myung-gil, Colin Salmon, and Tom Kenny. After him are Hamlet Mkhitaryan, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Monroe, Mitsunori Yoshida, Simon Abkarian, and Richard Jewell.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Gidzenko ranks 845 out of 1,365. Before him are Zośka Vieras (1892), Viktor Kanevskyi (1936), Edward Abramowski (1868), Oleg Romanishin (1952), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), and Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890). After him are Paul A. Baran (1909), Yuriy Istomin (1944), Anatol Rapoport (1911), Boris Verlinsky (1888), Lolita Milyavskaya (1963), and Kateryna Yushchenko (1919).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Yuri Gidzenko ranks 16. Before him are Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), and Yuri Malenchenko (1961). After him are Vladimir Vasyutin (1952), and Yury Onufriyenko (1961).

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