• 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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    Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (category Bulgarian cosmonauts)
    Aleksandrov (Bulgarian: Александър Панайотов Александров) (born December 1, 1951) is a retired Bulgarian cosmonaut. He is the second Bulgarian to have flown...
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    a military parade and the creation of a monument in Shumen. Bulgarian cosmonaut program Captive Nations Human Development Report 1990, p. 111 Poulton...
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    The Bulgarian Air Force (Bulgarian: Военновъздушни сили, romanized: Voennovazdushni sili) is one of the three branches of the Military of Bulgaria, the...
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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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    anti-aircraft warfare and the Bulgarian Air Force. Milanov was Chief of staff of the National Commission in the Bulgarian cosmonaut program and a working member...
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  • Bezmer Air Base (category Airports in Bulgaria)
    List of Bulgarian Air Force bases List of Bulgarian military bases 28th Air Detachment Bulgaria Military of Bulgaria Bulgarian cosmonaut program List of...
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    Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia) is a retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut. He has participated in four spaceflight missions. The catastrophic explosion...
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  • Institute (Bulgarian: Институт за космически изследвания и технологии, romanized: Institut za kosmicheski izsledvaniya i tekhnologii) of the Bulgarian Academy...
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    Yuri Gagarin (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first...
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    Igor Volk (category Russian cosmonauts of Ukrainian descent)
    April 1937 – 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...
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    Interkosmos (category Interkosmos program)
    countries involved, only Bulgaria sent two cosmonauts in space, although the second one did not fly under the Interkosmos program, and the French spationaut...
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  • Pavel Belyayev (category Voskhod program cosmonauts)
    different types of aircraft. He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the...
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    Valery Bykovsky (category Vostok program 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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    Yuri Romanenko (category Salyut program cosmonauts)
    Ю́рий Ви́кторович Романе́нко; born 1 August 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980)...
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    Bulgaria's highest-ranked club in UEFA. Bulgaria portal Outline of Bulgaria /bʌlˈɡɛəriə, bʊl-/ ; Bulgarian: България, romanized: Bŭlgariya Bulgarian:...
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    Soyuz 11 (category Space program fatalities)
    Aljman stamps, Soyuz 11 - Cosmonaut Casualties 1972 Retrieved 23 December 2019 "Bulgaria: Stamps (Series: Death of Soviet Cosmonauts 1971". colnect.com. Retrieved...
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    Vasily Tsibliyev (category Russian cosmonauts)
    1954) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He was selected as a cosmonaut on March 26, 1987. Tsibliyev...
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  • Dobroslavtsi Air Base (category Articles containing Bulgarian-language text)
    List of Bulgarian Air Force bases List of Bulgarian military bases 28th Air Detachment Bulgaria Military of Bulgaria Bulgarian cosmonaut program "Airport...
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    Pavel Popovich (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    Popovych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Popovich was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, the eighth person...
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    Alexei Leonov (category Voskhod program cosmonauts)
    Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became...
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    Gherman Titov (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard...
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    Ivanov – first Bulgarian cosmonaut Todor Zhivkov – Communist president of Bulgaria Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov – second Bulgarian cosmonaut Vladimir Zaimov...
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    from Bulgaria became the first Bulgarian to reach outer space when he boarded Soyuz 33 along with Soviet cosmonaut Nikolai Rukavishnikov. Bulgarian scientists...
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    Phạm Tuân (category Salyut program cosmonauts)
    twɜn˨˩] born 14 February 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator and cosmonaut. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an Asian...
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    Andriyan Nikolayev (category Vostok program cosmonauts)
    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...
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    Boris Volynov (category Salyut program cosmonauts)
    diploma of a pilot-engineer-cosmonaut. Later in 1980 he defended a PhD at the same academy. After resigning from the space program in 1982, he spent eight...
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  • 7K-VI Zvezda program, a radically modified Soyuz. In December 1967, the project was closed. 1966–67 – Military Cosmonaut Group (USSR) Cosmonauts training...
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    Anatoly Solovyev (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    Соловьёв; alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev was born on January 16, 1948, in Riga, Latvia (at...
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