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Valery Bykovsky appears in Vinony's Astronauts collection — one of 1,048 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 73 inbound references to Valery Bykovsky, and connects out to Moscow, Russian and World War II.
It is catalogued under topics including 1934 births, 1963 in spaceflight and 2019 deaths.
Vinony links it to 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky , ( 1934-08-02 ) 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 27 March 2019 (2019-03-27) (aged 84)
- Occupation
- Pilot
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union , Order of Lenin
- Rank
- Major General , Soviet Air Force
- Time in space
- 20d 17h 48m
- Selection
- 1960 Air Force Group 1
- Missions
- Vostok 5 , Soyuz 22 , Soyuz 31 / Soyuz 29
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valery
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Pavlovsky Posad
- Occupation
- military officer
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Field of work
- astronautics
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- WaleriBykowski.jpg
- Work location
- Soviet Union
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- Commons category
- Valeri Bykovski
- date of birth
- 1934-01-01
- P450
- Soyuz 31
- time in space
- 29868
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- date of death
- 2019-01-01
- birth name
- Валерий Фёдорович Быковский
- name in native language
- Валерий Фёдорович Быковский
- member of
- First group of Soviet cosmonauts
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Encyclopedic overview
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; 2 August 1934 – 27 March 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.
Early life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valery Bykovsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.