List of cosmonauts

A Soviet space skafander in the Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow.

This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities.

Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia are marked with an asterisk and their place of birth is shown in an additional list.

For the full plain lists of Russian and Soviet cosmonauts in Wikipedia, see Category:Russian

4 different female cosmonauts have flown on the Soviet/Russian program: Valentina Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya, Elena V. Kondakova, and Elena O. Serova[1]

Russian and Soviet cosmonauts

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space

A

Nikolai Budarin
Vladimir Dezhurov

B

D

F

G

Aleksandr Kaleri
Sergei Krikalev

I

K

Aleksei Leonov

L

Yuri Lonchakov

M

Gennady Padalka

N

O

P

R

S

Leonid Popov, Svetlana Savitskaya, Aleksandr Serebrov
Valentina Tereshkova

T

U

V

Fyodor Yurchikhin

Y

Z

Eastern Bloc cosmonauts

From 1978-1988, the Soviet Union transported 11 citizens of 10 nations closely allied to the USSR in the Soyuz manned vehicle. All of them flew as a result of the Intercosmos program. These space travelers have usually been referred to as "cosmonauts".

Other cosmonauts

In 1982, as an extension of the Intercosmos program, the Soviet Union began to fly the citizens of countries not part of the Soviet bloc, starting with Jean-Loup Chrétien of France. The USSR and later Russia have transported 49 citizens of 18 other nations on the Soyuz vehicle, usually as part of a commercial arrangement, including seven space tourists flying through the Space Adventures contract. Since 2001, the Soyuz has been used to transport ESA, JAXA, and NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. These space travelers are not always referred to as "cosmonauts", especially if they belong to another space program; e.g., NASA employees are almost always referred to as "astronauts", even if they are flying on a Russian vehicle.

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia

All Soviet and RKA cosmonauts have been born within the borders of the U.S.S.R.; no cosmonaut who was born in independent Russia has yet flown. Many cosmonauts, however, were born in Soviet territories outside the boundaries of Russia, and may be claimed by various Soviet successor states as nationals of those states. All claimed Soviet or Russian citizenship at the time of their space flights.

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. / Azerbaijan Azerbaijan

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian S.S.R. / Belarus Belarus

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Georgian S.S.R. / Georgia Georgia (country)

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakh S.S.R. / Kazakhstan Kazakhstan

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Kirghiz S.S.R. / Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Latvian S.S.R. / Latvia Latvia

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen S.S.R. / Turkmenistan Turkmenistan

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukrainian S.S.R. / Ukraine Ukraine

Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek S.S.R. / Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

See also

References

  1. ↑ Garber, Todd Messer, Claire Rojstaczer, and Steve. "Women in Space". history.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
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