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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (Chuvash and Russian: Андриян Григорьевич Николаев; 5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) 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 because of it considered the first Turkic cosmonaut.
Andriyan Nikolayev (born September 5, 1929, Shorshely, Chuvashiya, U.S.S.R. [now in Russia]—died July 3, 2004, Cheboksary, Chuvashiya, Russia) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who piloted the Vostok 3 spacecraft, launched August 11, 1962.
Apr 19, 2018 · Graduated from Higher Air Force School, Chernikhov, 1952 and Frunse, 1954; graduated from Zhukovsky Military Air Engineering Academy, 1968; from 1944 to 1950 he worked as a forrest worker; Major General and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 ( TsPK -1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 3/60 - 18.01.
Oct 21, 2020 · While he visited the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, the Soviets launched Andriyan G. Nikolayev and Vitali I. Sevastyanov aboard Soyuz 9 on a record-setting 18-day mission.
Jun 30, 2021 · Five days later they broke the previous 18-day human spaceflight endurance record set by the Soyuz 9 crew in June 1970. Soyuz 9 cosmonaut Andriyan G. Nikolayev, serving as spacecraft communicator, congratulated them on their accomplishment.
Aug 11, 2020 · Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich made contact with one another via shortwave radio soon after their spacecraft approached one another; they would maintain regular ship-to-ship communications over the course of their mission in addition to their contact with the ground.
Jul 7, 2004 · Andrian Nikolayev, whose flight into space in 1962 set an endurance record at the time, died Saturday in Cheboksary, the capital of his birthplace, the Chuvash Autonomous Republic. He was 74.
