Andriyan Nikolayev
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 20 years ago |
Date of birth | September 5,1929 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Shorshely |
Russia | |
Date of died | July 3,2004 |
Died | Cheboksary |
Russia | |
Spouse | Valentina Tereshkova |
Children | Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova |
Missions | Vostok 3 |
Soyuz 9 | |
Rank | Major general |
Soviet Air Forces | |
Job | Astronaut |
Space missions | Vostok 3, Soyuz 9, Vostok 3 and 4 |
Space time | 21d 15h 20m |
Awards | Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547926 |
Andriyan Nikolayev Life story
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and is considered as the first Turkic person who flew into space.