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Yuri Malenchenko

1961 - Today

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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks third for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS). He is a former commander of the International Space Station. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Malenchenko is the 197th most popular astronaut (down from 170th in 2019), the 736th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 730th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Ukrainian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 197 out of 556. Before him are Aleksandr Kaleri, Rick Husband, C. Gordon Fullerton, Paul Lockhart, Michael López-Alegría, and Oleg Atkov. After him are Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Patrick Baudry, Oleg Kononenko, Yury Malyshev, Elliot See, and Laurel Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 249. Before him are Aaron Sorkin, Masamune Shirow, José Luis Cuciuffo, Sion Sono, Boško Gjurovski, and Brendan Eich. After him are Gabrielle Carteris, Abderrahmane Sissako, Anna Oxa, Brian Orser, Chi McBride, and Freddie Spencer.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 736 out of 1,365. Before him are Ossip Bernstein (1882), Klavdiya Shulzhenko (1906), Jascha Horenstein (1898), Nikolai Gikalo (1897), Moriz Rosenthal (1862), and Jan Szczepanik (1872). After him are Alexander Litovchenko (1835), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Alexander Zakharchenko (1976), Abraham Lempel (1936), Anna Muzychuk (1990), and Volodymyr Pravyk (1962).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Ukraine

Among astronauts born in Ukraine, Yuri Malenchenko ranks 15. Before him are Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), Georgy Shonin (1935), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Leonid Kadeniuk (1951), Anatoly Levchenko (1941), and Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956). After him are Yuri Gidzenko (1962), Vladimir Vasyutin (1952), and Yury Onufriyenko (1961).

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