Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut.
16 Facts About Pavel Popovich
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Pavel Popovich was born in Uzyn, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR to Roman Porfirievich Pavel Popovich and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonova.
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In 1947, Pavel Popovich left vocational school in Bila Tserkva with qualifications as a carpenter.
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In 1951, Pavel Popovich graduated as a construction engineer from a technical school in Magnitogorsk, as well as receiving a pilot's degree.
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Pavel Popovich married Marina Popovich, a retired Soviet Air Force colonel and test pilot.
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Pavel Popovich died in a hospital in Gurzuf where he was taken following a stroke on 29 September 2009.
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In 1952, Pavel Popovich graduated from a course at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School near Novosibirsk.
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Pavel Popovich then went on to train at the Military Officers of the Air Force Aviation Training School in Grozny, until 1954, when he joined the Soviet Air Force.
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Pavel Popovich was appointed as an astronaut on 25 January 1961.
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Pavel Popovich commanded the space flight Vostok 4 in 1962 which, along with Andrian Nikolayev on Vostok 3, was the first time that more than one crewed spacecraft were in orbit at the same time.
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Pavel Popovich's call sign for this flight was Golden eagle.
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Pavel Popovich was selected to command one of the Soviet Union's planned Moon landings, and trained for this between 1966 and 1968, when the Soviet Moon landing plans were scrapped.
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Pavel Popovich had been the chairman of Ukrainian diaspora organisation in Russia.
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Pavel Popovich was awarded a Gold Tsiolkovsky Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and a De La Vaux Medal from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
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In 1984 Pavel Popovich joined the Russian Academy of Sciences' newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy's UFO Commission.
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Pavel Popovich was the president of the UFO association of Russia.