• The Bulgarian cosmonaut program refers to human spaceflight efforts by the People's Republic of Bulgaria. The idea of a Bulgarian crewed space mission...
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    Kakalov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Какалов; born July 2, 1940) is a Bulgarian former military officer who was the first Bulgarian cosmonaut. He was a...
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    Yuri Gagarin (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Soviet space programme alongside five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre...
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    Valentina Tereshkova (category Russian cosmonauts)
    dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, Tereshkova remained in the space programme as a cosmonaut instructor. She later graduated from...
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    Igor Volk (category Russian cosmonauts of Ukrainian descent)
    3 January 2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in 1956. After...
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    Valery Bykovsky (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    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...
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  • Nikolai Rukavishnikov (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    September 1932 – 19 October 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these...
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    Vladimir Shatalov (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    1927 – June 15, 2021) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. From 1987 to...
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    Aleksei Yeliseyev (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    Елисеев; born 13 July 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5 , Soyuz 8, and...
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    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...
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