List of cosmonauts

A Soviet space skafander in the Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow.

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 and people of other ethnicities.

Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia are marked with an asterisk and their place of birth is shown in an additional list.

For the full plain lists of Russian and Soviet cosmonauts in Wikipedia, see Category:Russian cosmonauts and Category:Soviet cosmonauts.

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Russian and Soviet cosmonauts

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space

F

Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009) — Voskhod 1
Valentin Filatyev (1930—1990) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights.
Anatoly Filipchenko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16

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Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), First person in space. — Vostok 1
Yuri Gidzenko* — Soyuz TM-22, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TM-34/Soyuz TM-33
Yuri Glazkov (1939–2008) — Soyuz 24
Viktor Gorbatko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, Soyuz 37/36
Georgi Grechko — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz T-14/13
Aleksei Gubarev — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 28

Aleksandr Kaleri

Sergei Krikalev

I

Aleksandr Ivanchenkov — Soyuz 29/31,Soyuz-T-6

Anatoli Ivanishin — Soyuz TMA-22

K

Aleksandr Kaleri* — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3, Soyuz TMA-01M
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000) — Soyuz 5/4
Leonid Kizim* (1941–2010) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Pyotr Klimuk* — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30
Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), Died during reentry. — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1
Yelena V. Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84
Dmitri Kondratyev — Soyuz TMA-20
Oleg Kononenko* — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-03M, Soyuz TMA-17M
Mikhail Korniyenko — Soyuz TMA-18, Soyuz TMA-16M
Valery Korzun — Soyuz TM-24, STS-111/113
Oleg Kotov* — Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-17, Soyuz TMA-10M
Vladimir Kovalyonok* — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29/31, Soyuz T-4
Konstantin Kozeyev — Soyuz TM-33/32
Sergei Krikalev — Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-12/ Soyuz TM-13, STS-60, STS-88, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TMA-6
Valeri Kubasov — Soyuz 6, Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36/35

Aleksei Leonov

L

Aleksandr Laveykin — Soyuz TM-2
Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a
Aleksandr Lazutkin — Soyuz TM-25
Valentin Lebedev — Soyuz 13, Soyuz T-5/7
Aleksei Leonov — Voskhod 2 (first walk in space), Soyuz 19
Anatoli Levchenko* (1941–1988) — Soyuz TM-4/3
Yuri Lonchakov* — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-13
Vladimir Lyakhov* — Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-6/5

Yuri Lonchakov

M

Oleg Makarov (1933–2003) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a, Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz T-3
Yuri Malenchenko* — Soyuz TM-19, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Soyuz TMA-11, Soyuz TMA-05M
Yury Malyshev (1941–1999) — Soyuz T-2, Soyuz T-11/10
Gennadi Manakov — Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-16
Musa Manarov* — Soyuz TM-4/6, Soyuz TM-11
Boris Morukov (1950—2015) — STS-106
Talgat Musabayev* — Soyuz TM-19, Soyuz TM-27, Soyuz TM-32/31

Alexander Misurkin,Soyuz-TMA-08M

Gennady Padalka

N

Grigori Nelyubov (1934-1966) — Expelled from Vostok program, no flights.
Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004) — Vostok 3, Soyuz 9
Oleg Novitski* — Soyuz TMA-06M

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Yuri Onufrienko* — Soyuz TM-23, STS-108/111
Aleksey Ovchinin —Soyuz-TMA-20M

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Gennady Padalka — Soyuz TM-28, Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-14, Soyuz TMA-04M, Soyuz TMA-16M
Viktor Patsayev* (1933–1971), died in reentry. — Soyuz 11
Aleksandr Poleshchuk — Soyuz TM-16
Valeri Polyakov — Soyuz TM-6/7, Soyuz TM-18/20
Leonid Popov* — Soyuz 35/37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7/5
Pavel Popovich* (1930-2009) — Vostok 4, Soyuz 14

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Sergei Revin — Soyuz TMA-04M
Roman Romanenko — Soyuz TMA-15, Soyuz TMA-07M
Yuri Romanenko — Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2/3
Valery Rozhdestvensky — Soyuz 23
Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1932–2002) — Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, Soyuz 33
Sergei Ryazanski — Soyuz TMA-10M
Valery Ryumin — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz 35/37, STS-91

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Leonid Popov, Svetlana Savitskaya, Aleksandr Serebrov

Aleksandr Samokutyayev — Soyuz TMA-21, Soyuz TMA-14M
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005) — Soyuz 15
Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14
Svetlana Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12
Aleksandr Serebrov (1944-2013) — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-17
Yelena Serova — Soyuz TMA-14M
Vitali Sevastyanov (1935–2010) — Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18
Yuri Shargin — Soyuz TMA-5/4
Salizhan Sharipov* — STS-89, Soyuz TMA-5
Vladimir Shatalov* — Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Anton Shkaplerov — Soyuz TMA-22, Soyuz TMA-15M
Georgi Shonin* (1935–1997) — Soyuz 6
Oleg Skripochka – Soyuz TMA-01M
Aleksandr Skvortsov — Soyuz TMA-18
Anatoly Solovyev* — Soyuz TM-5/4, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26
Vladimir Solovyov — Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Gennadi Strekalov (1940–2004) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-11/10, Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Maksim Surayev — Soyuz TMA-16, Soyuz TMA-13M

Valentina Tereshkova

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Yevgeni Tarelkin — Soyuz TMA-06M
Valentina Tereshkova, First woman in space. — Vostok 6
Gherman Titov (1935–2000) — Vostok 2
Vladimir Titov — Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-4/6, STS-63, STS-86
Valeri Tokarev — STS-96, Soyuz TMA-7
Sergei Treshchov — STS-111/113
Vasili Tsibliyev* — Soyuz TM-17, Soyuz TM-25
Mikhail Tyurin — STS-105/108, Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-11M

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Yuri Usachov — Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-23, STS-101, STS-102/STS-105

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Vladimir Vasyutin* (1952–2002) — Soyuz T-14
Aleksandr Viktorenko* — Soyuz TM-3/2, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-20
Pavel Vinogradov — Soyuz TM-26, Soyuz TMA-8
Igor Volk* — Soyuz T-12
Alexander Volkov* — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13, Soyuz TM-13
Sergei Aleksandrovich Volkov* — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-02M
Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), Died on reentry. — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11
Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21

Fyodor Yurchikhin

Sergei Vozovikov (1958-1993) — No flights.

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Boris Yegorov (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1
Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Fyodor Yurchikhin* — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-19, Soyuz TMA-09M

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Dmitri Zaikin (1932-2013) — No flights.
Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
Vitali Zholobov* — Soyuz 21
Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23

Eastern Bloc cosmonauts

From 1978-1988, the Soviet Union transported 11 citizens of 10 nations closely allied to the USSR in the Soyuz manned vehicle. All of them flew as a result of the Intercosmos program. These space travelers have usually been referred to as "cosmonauts".

Afghanistan: Abdul Ahad Mohmand — Soyuz TM-6/5
Bulgaria:
- Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5/4
- Georgi Ivanov — Soyuz 33
Cuba: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — Soyuz 38
Czechoslovakia: Vladimír Remek — Soyuz 28
East Germany: Sigmund Jähn — Soyuz 31/29
Hungary: Bertalan Farkas — Soyuz 36/35
Mongolia: Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa — Soyuz 39
Poland: Mirosław Hermaszewski — Soyuz 30
Romania: Dumitru Prunariu — Soyuz 40
Vietnam: Phạm Tuân — Soyuz 37/36

Other cosmonauts

In 1982, as an extension of the Intercosmos program, the Soviet Union began to fly the citizens of countries not part of the Soviet bloc, starting with Jean-Loup Chrétien of France. The USSR and later Russia have transported 49 citizens of 18 other nations on the Soyuz vehicle, usually as part of a commercial arrangement, including seven space tourists flying through the Space Adventures contract. Since 2001, the Soyuz has been used to transport ESA, JAXA, and NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. These space travelers are not always referred to as "cosmonauts", especially if they belong to another space program; e.g., NASA employees are almost always referred to as "astronauts", even if they are flying on a Russian vehicle.

Africa

South Africa: Mark Shuttleworth (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TM-34/33

Americas

Brazil: Marcos Pontes — Soyuz TMA-8
Canada:
- Guy Laliberté (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TMA-16/14
- Chris Hadfield — Soyuz TMA-07M
- Robert Thirsk — Soyuz TMA-15
United States:
- Joseph M. Acaba — Soyuz TMA-04M
- Anousheh Ansari* (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TMA-9/8
- Michael R. Barratt — Soyuz TMA-14
- Ken Bowersox — Soyuz TMA-1 (landing only)
- Daniel C. Burbank — Soyuz TMA-22
- Leroy Chiao — Soyuz TMA-5
- Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA-17
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson — Soyuz TMA-18
- Catherine Coleman — Soyuz TMA-20
- Michael Fincke — Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-13
- Michael Foale* — Soyuz TMA-3
- Kevin A. Ford – Soyuz TMA-06M
- Michael E. Fossum — Soyuz TMA-02M
- Ronald J. Garan, Jr. — Soyuz TMA-21
- Richard Garriott* (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TMA-13/12
- Michael S. Hopkins — Soyuz TMA-10M
- Scott Kelly — Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-16M
- Kjell N. Lindgren — Soyuz TMA-17M
- Michael Lopez-Alegria* — Soyuz TMA-9
- Ed Lu — Soyuz TMA-2
- Thomas Marshburn — Soyuz TMA-07M
- Richard Mastracchio — Soyuz TMA-11M
- William S. McArthur — Soyuz TMA-7
- Karen Nyberg — Soyuz TMA-09M
- Gregory Olsen (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TMA-7/6
- Donald Pettit — Soyuz TMA-1 (landing only), Soyuz TMA-03M
- John L. Phillips — Soyuz TMA-6
- William Shepherd — Soyuz TM-31 (launch only)
- Charles Simonyi* (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TMA-10/9, Soyuz TMA-14/13
- Norman Thagard — Soyuz TM-21 (launch only)
- Dennis Tito (Space Adventures) — Soyuz TM-32/31
- Terry W. Virts — Soyuz TMA-15M
- Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19
- Douglas H. Wheelock — Soyuz TMA-19
- Peggy Whitson — Soyuz TMA-11
- Jeffrey Williams — Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16
- Sunita Williams — Soyuz TMA-05M
- Barry E. Wilmore — Soyuz TMA-14M
- Gregory R. Wiseman — Soyuz TMA-13M

Asia

India: Rakesh Sharma (Intercosmos) — Soyuz T-11/10
Japan:
- Toyohiro Akiyama — Soyuz TM-11/10
- Akihiko Hoshide — Soyuz TMA-05M
- Soichi Noguchi — Soyuz TMA-17
- Satoshi Furukawa — Soyuz TMA-02M
- Koichi Wakata — Soyuz TMA-11M
- Kimiya Yui — Soyuz TMA-17M
Malaysia: Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor — Soyuz TMA-11/10
South Korea: Yi So-yeon — Soyuz TMA-12/11
Syria: Muhammed Faris (Intercosmos) — Soyuz TM-3/2

Europe

Austria: Franz Viehböck — Soyuz TM-13/12
Belgium: Frank De Winne, EAC — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
France:
- Jean-Loup Chrétien, CNES (Intercosmos) — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6
- Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26
- Claudie André-Deshays Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
- Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14
Germany:
- Reinhold Ewald, EAC — Soyuz TM-25/24
- Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
- Alexander Gerst — Soyuz TMA-13M
- Ulf Merbold, EAC — Soyuz TM-20/19
- Thomas Reiter, EAC — Soyuz TM-22
Italy:
- Samantha Cristoforetti, EAC — Soyuz TMA-15M
- Roberto Vittori, EAC — Soyuz TM-34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5
- Paolo Nespoli, EAC — Soyuz TMA-20
- Luca Parmitano, EAC — Soyuz TMA-09M
The Netherlands: André Kuipers, EAC — Soyuz TMA-4/3, Soyuz TMA-03M
Slovakia: Ivan Bella — Soyuz TM-29/28
Spain: Pedro Duque, EAC — Soyuz TMA-3/2
United Kingdom: Helen Sharman — Soyuz TM-12/11

Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia

All Soviet and RKA cosmonauts have been born within the borders of the U.S.S.R.; no cosmonaut who was born in independent Russia has yet flown. Many cosmonauts, however, were born in Soviet territories outside the boundaries of Russia, and may be claimed by various Soviet successor states as nationals of those states. All claimed Soviet or Russian citizenship at the time of their space flights.