Ukrainian Cosmonauts - Ukrainian-Russian Cosmonauts, Ukrainian Soviet Cosmonauts, Pavel Popovich, Valentin Bondarenko, Yury Onufriyenko (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ukrainian-Russian Cosmonauts, Ukrainian Soviet Cosmonauts, Pavel Popovich, Valentin Bondarenko, Yury Onufriyenko, Yuri Gidzenko, Yuri Malenchenko, Georgy Beregovoy, Leonid Kadeniuk, Igor Volk, Aleksandr Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vasily Tsibliyev, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Vitali Zholobov, Leonid Kizim, Georgi Shonin, Vladimir Lyakhov, Leonid Popov, Anatoli Levchenko. Excerpt: Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian:, Ukrainian:, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (October 5, 1930 September 29, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space. He was the 4th Cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space. He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Ukrainian SSR. to Roman Porfirievich Popovic (a fireman in a sugar factory) and Theodosia Kasyanovny Semyonov. He had two sisters (one older, one younger) and two brothers (both younger). During World War II, the Germans occupied Uzyn, and burned documents including Popovich's birth certificate. After the war, these were restored through witness testimony, and although his mother knew that he was born in 1929, two witnesses insisted that Popovich was born in 1930, and so this became his official year of birth. In 1947, he left vocational school in Bila Tserkva with qualifications as a carpenter.. In 1951, Popovich graduated as a construction engineer from a technical school in Magnitogorsk, as well as receiving a pilot's degree.. In 1954, he joined the Young Communist League. He was married to Marina Popovich, a retired Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who has been outspoken about UFO reality. They had two daughters. They later divorced, and Popovich married Alevtina Oshegova. Popovich was also a keen weight lif... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=194636