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Yury Glazkov

1939 - 2008

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Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Глазко́в; 2 October 1939 – 9 December 2008) was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yury Glazkov is the 161st most popular astronaut (down from 108th in 2019), the 1,400th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,203rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yury Glazkov ranks 161 out of 556. Before him are Karen Nyberg, Lev Dyomin, Mike Massimino, Michael Foreman, Chiaki Mukai, and Valeri Tokarev. After him are Vitaly Sevastyanov, Roberta Bondar, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Paul J. Weitz, and Leonid Kadeniuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Yury Glazkov ranks 303. Before him are Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Renate Boy, Marie-Claire Blais, José Emilio Pacheco, Len Cariou, and Nông Đức Mạnh. After him are Robert Darnton, Janet Suzman, Peter Revson, Gila Almagor, James Burton, and Sushil Koirala. Among people deceased in 2008, Yury Glazkov ranks 201. Before him are Ken Ogata, Marlyn Meltzer, Paavo Haavikko, Grigory Romanov, John Phillip Law, and Lydia Shum. After him are Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Anatoly Khrapaty, Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Aleksandr Abdulov, Ferenc Fejtő, and Olga Lepeshinskaya.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yury Glazkov ranks 1,400 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Novikov (1744), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Olavi Mannonen (1930), Oleg Gazmanov (1951), Edwin Linkomies (1894), and Nikolai Karachentsov (1944). After him are Apollon Maykov (1821), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Alexander Petrov (1799), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), and Eugen Slutsky (1880).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Yury Glazkov ranks 41. Before him are Georgy Grechko (1931), Aleksei Yeliseyev (1934), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Lev Dyomin (1926), and Valeri Tokarev (1952). After him are Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Boris Morukov (1950), Valentina Ponomaryova (1933), and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (1947).

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