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| nationality = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]
| nationality = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]
| date_birth = {{birth date|1930|10|5|mf=y}}
| date_birth = {{birth date|1930|10|5|mf=y}}
| place_birth = [[Kiev Oblast]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| place_birth = [[Uzyn]], [[Kiev Oblast]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
| date_death = {{death date and age|2009|9|30|1930|10|5|mf=y}}
| date_death = {{death date and age|2009|9|29|1930|10|5|mf=y}}
| place_death = [[Gurzuf]], [[Crimea]], [[Ukraine]]
| place_death = [[Gurzuf]], [[Crimea]], [[Ukraine]]
| occupation = [[Aviator|Pilot]]
| occupation = [[Aviator|Pilot]]
| Date of ret = 26 January 1982
| rank = [[Major General]], [[Soviet Air Force]]
| rank = [[Major General]], [[Soviet Air Force]]
| selection = [[List of astronauts by selection#1960|Air Force Group 1]]
| selection = [[List of astronauts by selection#1960|Air Force Group 1]]
| time = 18d 16h 27m
| time = 2d 22h 57m (Vostok 4)<br/>15d 17h 30m (Soyuz 14)<hr>18d 16h 27m (total)
| mission = [[Vostok 4]], [[Soyuz 14]]
| mission = [[Vostok 4]], [[Soyuz 14]]
| insignia = [[Image:Vostok_3_4_Mission_Patch.svg|35px]]
| insignia = [[Image:Vostok_3_4_Mission_Patch.svg|35px]]
|}}
|}}


'''Pavel Romanovich Popovich''' ({{lang-ru|Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич}}; [[October 5]], [[1930]] – [[September 30]], [[2009]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]] of [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] descent, arguably the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.
'''Pavel Romanovich Popovich''' ({{lang-ru|Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич}}, {{lang-uk|Павло Романович Попович}}, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) ([[October 5]], [[1930]] – [[September 29]], [[2009]]<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="vsesmi-stroke"/>) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]] of [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.<ref name="collectspace-obit"/>


He was the 4th Cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space.<ref name="collectspace-obit"/>
He was born in [[Uzyn]], [[Kiev Oblast]] of [[Ukrainian SSR]].


== Photo gallery ==
Popovich commanded two [[manned space missions|space flights]], [[Vostok 4]] and [[Soyuz 14]]. His call sign in these flights was [[Golden eagle]] ({{lang|ru|Бе́ркут}}).
{{Image gallery
|title=Pavel Romanovich Popovich
|lines=5
|width=150
|Soviet Union-1962-stamp-Wostok 4-001.jpg|Popovich - Soyuz 14|Postage Stamp (Soviet Union): ''Soyuz 14'' Mission
|Popovich and Artyukhin.jpg|Popovich and Aryukhin - Vostok 4 mission|Postage Stamp (Soviet Union): Pavel Popovich and [[Yury Artyukhin]] - ''Vostok 4'' Mission
|Ppopovic.jpg|Popovich in Vostok 3|Popovich in Vostok 4
}}


== Biography ==
In 1960, he was selected as one of a group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts. Vostok 4 was part of the first dual space flight, with [[Andrian Nikolayev]] on [[Vostok 3]]. He retired from the space programme in 1982.


He was born in [[Uzyn]], [[Kiev Oblast]] of [[Ukrainian SSR]].<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="astronote"/> to a Roman Porfirievich Popovic (a fireman in a sugar factory) and Theodosia Kasyanovny Semyonov.<ref name="astronote"/><ref name="wh-popovich"/><ref name="ni-obit"/> He had two sisters (one older, one younger) and two brothers (both younger).<ref name="astronote"/>
30 September 2009 Pavel Popovich died at his apartment in [[Gurzuf]], [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web

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.<ref name="ni-obit"/>

In 1947, he left vocational school in [[Bila Tserkva]] with qualifications as a carpenter.<ref name="astronote"/>. In 1951, Popovich graduated as a construction engineer from a technical school in [[Magnitogorsk]]<ref name="astronote"/>, as well as receiving a pilot's degree.<ref name="tass-death"/>.

<!-- following from Czech Wikipedia article at http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Popovi%C4%8D -->
In 1954, he joined the [[Komsomol|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.<ref name="collectspace-obit"/><ref name="astronote"/>

He was also a member of the [[Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] 6th-11th convocations.<ref name="vsesmi-stroke"/>

After his retirement in 1993, he lived in [[Moscow]]<ref name="wh-popovich"/>

On 29 September 2009 Popovich died in a hospital in [[Gurzuf]] in the [[Crimea]], [[Ukraine]], where he had been taken following a [[stroke]]. [[Cerebral hemorrhage|Brain hemorrhage]] was cited as the cause of death.<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="vsesmi-stroke"/><ref name="nr-death"/> He is expected to be buried in Moscow.<ref name="wh-popovich"/>

== Military ==
In 1952 he graduated from a course at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School near [[Novosibirsk]]. He then went on to train at the Military Officers of the Air Force Aviation Training School in [[Grozny]], until 1954<ref name="astronote"/> when he joined the [[Russian Air Force]].<ref name="tass-death"/>

=== Service ===
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>

{|class="wikitable"
!Date
!Role
!Location
|-
|rowspan="2"|25 Dec 1954
|rowspan="2"|[[Aviator#Military|Pilot]]
|265 Fighter Regiment (IAP)
|-
|rowspan="2"|336th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) (later the IAD 64-Fighter Air Corps (IAC)) 22th Air Army)
|-
|19 Jun 1957
|Senior Pilot/Squadron [[Adjutant]]
|-
|27 Feb 1958
|rowspan="2"|Senior Airman
|772-IAP IAS 22 th 26 th VA.
|-
|31 May 1958
|rowspan="2"|234-Guards Regiment Proskurov 9th IN IAD Moscow ([[Kubinka]])
|-
|31 Jan 1959
|Adjutant of the squadron
|-
| Jan 1982
|Deputy Chief
|[[Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center]]
|-
|29 Dec 1989
|Secondment
|State Committee of the USSR Agro
|-
|20 Aug 1993
|colspan="2"|Retired by order of the Defense Ministry
|}

Aircraft types flown:
* [[Yakovlev Yak-11]]
* [[Yakovlev Yak-18]]
* [[Lavochkin La-9]]
* [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15]]

=== Training ===
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>

{|class="wikitable"
!Date
!Cyrillic
!English
|-
|12 May 1959
|Военный летчик 3-го класса
|Military Pilot, 3rd class
|-
|15 Aug 1962
|Военный летчик 1-го класса
|Military Pilot, 1st class
|-
|10 Nov 1960
|Инструктор парашютно-десантной подготовки (ПДП) ВВС
|Parachure Instructor (PDP) Air Force
|-
|30 Nov 1962
|Космонавт 3-го класса
|Astronaut 3rd class
|-
|24 Jul 1974
|Космонавт 2-го класса
|Astronaut 2nd Class
|}

=== Promotions ===
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>

{|class="wikitable"
!Date
!Insignia
!Cyrillic
!English
|-
|30 Oct 1954
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-army-leytenant.gif|20px]]
|Лейтенант
|[[Lieutenant]]
|-
|24 Apr 1957
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-army-st-leytenant.gif|20px]]
|Старший лейтенант
|Senior Lieutenant
|-
|30 Mar 1959
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-army-kapitan.gif|20px]]
|Капитан
|[[Captain (land and air)|Captain]]
|-
|05 Nov 1961
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-major.gif|20px]]
|Майор
|[[Major]]
|-
|11 Aug 1962
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-army-podpolkovnik.gif|20px]]
|Подполковник ([[Podpolkovnik]])
|[[Lieutenant Colonel]]
|-
|30 Apr 1965
|align="center"|[[File:Russia-army-polkovnik.gif|20px]]
|Полковник ([[Polkovnik]])
|[[Colonel]]
|-
|05 May 1976
|align="center" rowspan="2"|[[File:Rus_Major_General.gif|20px]]
|Генерал-майор авиации
|[[Major-General|Major-General (Aviation)]]
|-
|20 Aug 1993
|colspan="2"|Retired from the Air Force
|}

== Cosmonaut ==
In 1960, he was selected as one of the first group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts for the [[Soviet space program]].<ref name="tass-death"/> The training took place between March 1960 and January 1961, and Popovich passed his final exams in Cosmonaut Basic Training on 17/18 January 1961.<ref name="astronote"/> He was appointed as an astronaut on 25 January 1961.<ref name="astronote"/>

He was considered as a strong candidate for the first spaceflight - but while [[Yuri Gagarin]] was ultimately chosen for the [[Vostok 1]] flight, Popovich served as the flight's [[capsule communicator|capcom]].<ref name="collectspace-obit"/>

From May to August 1961, he trained to fly on spacecraft "Vostok-2" in a group of astronauts, followed (between September and November 1961) with training to fly "Vostok-3". This flight was cancelled. <ref name="astronote"/> Between November 1961 and May 1962, he trained as a pilot for "Vostok-4". Between June and August of that year, he received further training in the maintenance of this spacecraft.<ref name="astronote"/>

He commanded the [[manned space missions|space flight]] [[Vostok 4]] ({{lang-ru|''Восток-4''}}) in 1962<ref name="tass-death"/> which, along with [[Andrian Nikolayev]] on [[Vostok 3]], was the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. His call sign for this flight was ''[[Golden eagle]] ({{lang|ru|Бе́ркут}})''.

In January 1964, he became a cosmonaut instructor, becoming deputy comander to the 2nd group of cosmonauts.<ref name="astronote"/>

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.<ref name="collectspace-obit"/>

<!-- following information from Dutch Wikipedia article at
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Popovytsj -->
In 1968, he was selected as captain for [[Soyuz 2]], but after the death of [[Vladimir Komarov]] during the reentry of [[Soyuz 1]], Soyuz 2 was launched without a crew.

In 1969 he was a senior cosmonaut instructor, and became (by 1972) the Chief of cosmonaut training.<ref name="astronote"/>

In 1974, he commanded his second (and final) space flight [[Soyuz 14]] ({{lang-ru|''Союз 14''}}) in 1974<ref name="tass-death"/>. Again, his call sign for this flight was ''[[Golden eagle]] ({{lang|ru|Бе́ркут}})''. This flight was the first to the [[Salyut 3]] [[space station]].

In 1977, he received a post-graduate degree in technical sciences.<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="astronote"/>

<!-- following from Czech Wikipedia article at http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Popovi%C4%8D -->
In March 1978, he was on duty in the Flight Control Center for [[Vladimír Remek]]'s flight aboard [[Soyuz 28]].

From 1978 he was the deputy chief of the [[Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center|Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center]] responsible for research and testing work.<ref name="astronote"/> From 1980 to 1989, he was Deputy chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center. In January 1982, he was removed from the list of active cosmonauts, so that he could serve as Deputy Chief for Scientific Testing and Research at the Center.<ref name="astronote"/>

== Socio-Political Life ==
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>
* From 1992: Chairman of the Boxing Federation of Russia.
* From 1994: President of the ''Yuri Gagarin Foundation''; President of the Social Support for Veterans of the Armed Forces of the Union
* From 1996: Member of the Editorial Board of ''Space News''
* From 1998: Member of the Editorial Board of the All-Russia scientific and technical magazine ''Flight''
* From 1999: President of the Ukrainian Union of Cosmonauts
* Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
* President of the Association of Space Museums of Russia (AMKOS)
* Honorary President of the International Association of Veterans of Physical Education and Sport (MAFIS)
* Honorary Chairman of the Society of Ukrainian Culture (''Slavutich'')

== Honours ==

{{Image gallery
|title=Honours awarded to Pavel Popvich (in order of first award)
|lines=4
|width=100
|Order-of-the-Red-Star.jpg|Medal of the Order of the Red Star|[[Order of the Red Star]]
|PilotCosmonautOfTheSovietUnion.jpg|Medal of Pilot Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union|[[Pilot Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union]]
|TheVirginLandsMedal.jpg|Medal of the Development of Virgin Lands|Development of Virgin Lands
|GoldStarOfTheHeroOfTheSovietUnion.jpg|Medal of the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union|[[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
|Order_of_Lenin.jpg|Medal of the Order of Lenin|[[Order of Lenin]]
|OrderOfTheFriendshipOfPeoples.jpg|Medal of the Order of Friendship of Peoples|[[Order of Friendship of Peoples]]
|CombatCo-Operation.jpg|Medal For Strengthening Combat Co-Operation|For Strengthening Combat Co-Operation
|Order of Honor.jpg|Medal for the Order of Honor|Order of Honor
|Order of Services to the Fatherland 1st.jpg|Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland|[[Order of Merit for the Fatherland]]
|Mudryj-2-3.jpg|Medal of the Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav the Wise|Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav the Wise, 4th Class
|Znakpocheta-3.jpg|Medal of the Order of the Badge of Honor|[[Order of the Badge of Honor]]
}}

=== Awards and Medals ===
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>

{|class="wikitable"
!Date of Award
!Award
|-
|17 Jun 1961
|[[Order of the Red Star]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|1962
|[[Pilot Cosmonaut Of The Soviet Union]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|1962
|Honorable Radio Operator
|-
|1962
|Honored Master of Sports of the USSR<sup>a</sup>
|-
|1962
|Development Of The Virgin Lands
|-
|19 Aug 1962
|[[Hero of the Soviet Union]]<sup>b</sup><ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|19 Aug 1962
|[[Order of Lenin]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|15 Nov 1962
|Gold Star Labor Hero of the [[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|20 July 1974
|Hero of the Soviet Union<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|20 Jul 1974
|Order of Lenin<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|1982
|[[Order of Friendship of Peoples]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|13 May 1985
|Medal For Strengthening Combat Co-Operation
|-
|9 Apr 1996
|Order of Honor<sup>c</sup>
|-
|6 Oct 2000
|[[Order of Merit for the Fatherland]], 4th Grade<sup>d</sup>
|-
|1 Dec 2005
|Ukrainian [[Order of Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine)|Order of Yaroslav the Wise]], 4th Class<sup>e</sup>
|-
|Unknown
|[[Order of the Badge of Honor]]<ref name="tass-death"/>
|-
|Unknown
|Medal of the Republic of [[Cuba]]
|-
|Unknown
|9 Commemorative Medals
|}
Notes:
: <sup>a</sup> For setting records in space flight
: <sup>b</sup> Medal number 11117<ref name="wh-popovich"/>
: <sup>c</sup> For services to the state, many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art (as President of the Association of Space Museums)<ref name="polit-obit"/> (Presidential Decree No. 512 of April 9, 1996) <!-- from Russian Wikipedia article -->
: <sup>d</sup> For services to the state and long-term fruitful work<ref name="polit-obit"/> (Presidential Decree No. 1724 on October 6, 2000)<!-- from Russian Wikipedia article -->
: <sup>e</sup> For significant personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Ukrainian-Russian relations, promoting the rise of the authority of the Ukrainian state in the world<ref name="polit-obit"/> (Presidential Decree No. 1682/2005 dated December 1, 2005) <!-- from Russian Wikipedia article -->

=== Other honours ===
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He received [[Citizenship#Honorary_citizenship|honorary citizenship]] of several cites:<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="vsesmi-stroke"/>
* In Russia: [[Kaluga]]<sup>a</sup>, [[Kovrov]], [[Magnitogorsk]] (1965), [[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]] and [[Bila Tserkva]]
* In Ukraine: [[Poltava]] and [[Zaporizhia|Zaporozhye]]
* In [[Bulgaria]]: [[Targovishte]]
* In [[Kazakhstan]]: [[Atyrau|Guriev]]

Notes:
: <sup>a</sup> Popovich is the only person to have received the honorary citizenship of Kaluga twice. The first time was in August 1962 (Decision 597 of the Executive Committee of Kaluga City Council of Workers' Deputies), and the second time was in April 1964 (Decision 237 of the Executive Committee of Kaluga City Council of Workers' Deputies).<ref name="kg-honors"/>

A bronze sculpture to Popovich was established in Uzyn.<ref name="tass-death"/>

The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain ridge in Antarctica and a [[8444 Popovich|minor planet]].<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="astronote"/>

In 1991, he became director of the Institute Rossiyskogo for Monitoring of Land and Ecosystems, then worked as chairman of the board of directors of the All-Russia Institute of Aero-Photo-Geodesic Studies (VISKhAGI), dealing with the compilation of a land inventory of Russia using images from space.<ref name="tass-death"/><ref name="astronote"/>

He had also been the chairman of [[Ukrainian diaspora]] organisation in Russia.

He was awarded a Gold [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky|Tsiolkovsky]] Medal by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Academy of Sciences of the USSR]] and a De La Vaux Medal from the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]].<ref name="vsesmi-stroke"/><ref name="astronote"/>

==Ufology==
In 1984 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.

In the 2002 [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|SciFi Channel]] documentary ''[[Out of the Blue (2002 film)|Out of the Blue]]'', Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington D.C. with a delegation of scientists. The UFO was seen by everyone on board the plane. It was perfect triangle shaped and emitted a very bright, white light at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres and an altitude about 1,000 metres above the airplane. The object had en estimated speed of 1500 km/h travelling parallel to the airplane and passed and overtook the plane in about 30 to 40 seconds. <ref name="out-of-the-blue"/>

Popovich was the president of the UFO association of Russia.

==Bibliography==
<small>Details are from ''Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote'', unless otherwise noted<ref name="astronote"/></small>

=== Books ===
* "I Flew in the Morning" (1974)<ref name="wh-popovich"/>
* "Space Humanity" (1981)<ref name="wh-popovich"/>
* "Tested in Space and on Earth" (1982)<ref name="wh-popovich"/>
* "Endless Road Universe" (1985)<ref name="wh-popovich"/>
* "Robinson of the Universe" (1986)<ref name="wh-popovich"/>

=== Works in Collections ===
* "Space - My Job"
* "High Orbit"
* "Star"
* "Conquest of Infinity"
* "... 3, 2, 1!"

=== Essays ===
* "Secrets of the Galaxy"
* "Mysteries of the Eternal Cosmos"
* "Forward - to the Sources of the Past"

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="tass-death">{{cite news|url=http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14382769&PageNum=0|title=Pavel Popovich - one of forerunners of manned space research, dead|date=30 September 2009|publisher=[[Information Telegraph Agency of Russia|ITAR-TASS]]|language=English|accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>
<ref name="nr-death">{{cite web
|title=В Крыму скончался летчик-космонавт Павел Попович
|title=В Крыму скончался летчик-космонавт Павел Попович
|url=http://www.nr2.ru/251332.html
|url=http://www.nr2.ru/251332.html
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|language=Russian
|language=Russian
|trans_title=Space pilot Pavel Popovich died in Crimea}}</ref>
|trans_title=Space pilot Pavel Popovich died in Crimea}}</ref>
<ref name="out-of-the-blue">{{cite video |people= James Fox, Tim Coleman, Boris Zubov |date2= |month2= |year2= 2002 |title= [[Out of the Blue (2002 film)|Out of the Blue]] |url= http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545276251937701731&ei=CbIOSdjdEoLm2QLKjY18&q=out+of+the+blue+ufo |format= |medium= Documentary |publisher= Hannover House |location= |accessdate=2008-11-03 |time= 0:41:00 |quote= }} (Source does not state in which year this incident took place)</ref>
<ref name="astronote">{{cite web|url=http://www.astronaut.ru/as_rusia/vvs/text/popovich.htm?reload_coolmenus|title=Pavel Romanovich Popovich |date=11 June 2009|publisher=Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote|language=Russian|accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>
<ref name="vsesmi-stroke">{{cite news|url=http://www.vsesmi.ru/news/3311601/|title=Doctors: Cosmonaut Popovich died of a stroke|date=30 September 2009|work=VSESMI.RU|publisher=System News |accessdate=2009-09-30|location=Russia}}</ref>
<ref name="polit-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.polit.ru/news/2009/09/30/Popovich.html|title=In Crimea, twice 'Hero of the Soviet' cosmonaut Pavel Popovich dies|date=30 September 2009|publisher=Polit.ru|language=Russian|accessdate=2009-09-30|location=Russia}}</ref>
<ref name="collectspace-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-093009b.html|title=Pavel Popovich, sixth man in orbit, dies|date=30 September 2009|publisher=[[collectSPACE]]|accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>
<ref name="wh-popovich">{{cite web|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=691|title=Popovich, Pavel Romanovich|publisher=Russian War Heroes|language=Russian|accessdate=2009-10-01}}</ref>
<ref name="ni-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.newizv.ru/lenta/115191/|title=Cosmonaut Popovich has now permanently left the ground|date=30 September 2009|publisher=[[Novye Izvestiya]]|language=Russian|accessdate=2009-10-01}}</ref>
<ref name="kg-honors">{{cite web|url=http://www.kaluga-gov.ru/index.php?do=cat&category=imi_gorditsja_kaluga|title=Ими гордится Калуга ("They Bring Pride to Kaluga")|publisher=Office of the Affairs of the Mayor of Kaluga|language=Russian|accessdate=2009-10-01|location=Kaluga}}</ref>
}}


==Ufology==
==Further reading==
* Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex. "The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team" ([[Praxis Publications]], 2009) ISBN 978-0-387-84823-5
In 1984 Popovich joined the Academy of Sciences newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy's [[UFO]] Commission. In the 2002 [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|SciFi Channel]] documentary ''[[Out of the Blue (2002 film)|Out of the Blue]]'' Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington D.C. with a delegation of scientists. The UFO was seen by everyone on board the plane. It was perfect triangle shaped and emitted a very bright, white light at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres and an altitude about 1,000 metres above the airplane. The object had en estimated speed of 1500 km/h travelling parallel to the airplane and passed and overtook the plane in about 30 to 40 seconds. <ref>{{cite video |people= James Fox, Tim Coleman, Boris Zubov |date2= |month2= |year2= 2002 |title= [[Out of the Blue (2002 film)|Out of the Blue]] |url= http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545276251937701731&ei=CbIOSdjdEoLm2QLKjY18&q=out+of+the+blue+ufo |format= |medium= Documentary |publisher= Hannover House |location= |accessdate=2008-11-03 |time= 0:41:00 |quote= }} (Source does not state in which year this incident took place)</ref>
* {{cs icon}} Codr, Milan. "O kosmických dnech a nocích" (Praha : Práce, 1987)

: ''Codru, Milan. "The cosmic days and nights" ([[Prague]]: Práce, 1987)
Nowadays Popovich is the president of UFO association of Russia and the chairman of Ukrainian diaspora organisation in Russia.
* {{cs icon}} Codr, Milan. "Sto hvězdných kapitánů" (Praha: Práce, 1982)

: ''Codr, Milan. "Sto Star Captains" (Prague: Práce, 1982)
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 have two daughters.
* Harvey, Brian. "Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration" (Praxis, 2007) ISBN 978-0-387-21896-0

* {{ru icon}} Ребров, М. Ф. "Советские космонавты" (2-е изд.) (М.: Воениздат, 1983)
==References==
: ''Rebrov, M. F. "Soviet cosmonauts" (2nd ed.) (Moscow: Military Publishing, 1983)''
{{Reflist}}
* {{ru icon}} Шкадов, И. Н. (Пред.ред.коллегии) "Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь. Т.2." (М.: Воениздат, 1988)
: ''Shkadov, J. H. (editor) "Heroes of the Soviet Union: A brief biographical dictionary Vol. 2" (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988)''


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000172.html Image of Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich during Vostok 4 flight]
* [http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000172.html Image of Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich during Vostok 4 flight]
* {{ru icon}} [http://www.peoples.ru/military/cosmos/popovich/ Peoples History - from "Советские космонавты" (Soviet Cosmonauts)]
* {{ru icon}} [http://www.mgzt.ru/article/310 Медицинская Газета (Medical Newspaper) Interview with Popovich]
* {{ru icon}} [http://biograph.ru/bank/popovich_pr.htm Biograph.ru Biography]
* {{ru icon}} [http://www.newizv.ru/lenta/115191/ Novye Izvestiya Obituary - includes extracts from Popovich's logbook]


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Pavel Romanovich Popovich
File:Popovich-Soyuz-14 1974.jpg
NationalitySoviet
OccupationPilot
Space career
Cosmonaut
RankMajor General, Soviet Air Force
Time in space
2d 22h 57m (Vostok 4)
15d 17h 30m (Soyuz 14)
18d 16h 27m (total)
SelectionAir Force Group 1
MissionsVostok 4, Soyuz 14
Mission insignia
File:Vostok 3 4 Mission Patch.svg
Retirement26 January 1982

Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (October 5, 1930 – September 29, 2009[1][2]) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.[3]

He was the 4th Cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space.[3]

Photo gallery

Pavel Romanovich Popovich

Biography

He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Ukrainian SSR.[1][4] to a Roman Porfirievich Popovic (a fireman in a sugar factory) and Theodosia Kasyanovny Semyonov.[4][5][6] He had two sisters (one older, one younger) and two brothers (both younger).[4]

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.[6]

In 1947, he left vocational school in Bila Tserkva with qualifications as a carpenter.[4]. In 1951, Popovich graduated as a construction engineer from a technical school in Magnitogorsk[4], as well as receiving a pilot's degree.[1].

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.[3][4]

He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 6th-11th convocations.[2]

After his retirement in 1993, he lived in Moscow[5]

On 29 September 2009 Popovich died in a hospital in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Ukraine, where he had been taken following a stroke. Brain hemorrhage was cited as the cause of death.[1][2][7] He is expected to be buried in Moscow.[5]

Military

In 1952 he graduated from a course at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School near Novosibirsk. He then went on to train at the Military Officers of the Air Force Aviation Training School in Grozny, until 1954[4] when he joined the Russian Air Force.[1]

Service

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

Date Role Location
25 Dec 1954 Pilot 265 Fighter Regiment (IAP)
336th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) (later the IAD 64-Fighter Air Corps (IAC)) 22th Air Army)
19 Jun 1957 Senior Pilot/Squadron Adjutant
27 Feb 1958 Senior Airman 772-IAP IAS 22 th 26 th VA.
31 May 1958 234-Guards Regiment Proskurov 9th IN IAD Moscow (Kubinka)
31 Jan 1959 Adjutant of the squadron
Jan 1982 Deputy Chief Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center
29 Dec 1989 Secondment State Committee of the USSR Agro
20 Aug 1993 Retired by order of the Defense Ministry

Aircraft types flown:

Training

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

Date Cyrillic English
12 May 1959 Военный летчик 3-го класса Military Pilot, 3rd class
15 Aug 1962 Военный летчик 1-го класса Military Pilot, 1st class
10 Nov 1960 Инструктор парашютно-десантной подготовки (ПДП) ВВС Parachure Instructor (PDP) Air Force
30 Nov 1962 Космонавт 3-го класса Astronaut 3rd class
24 Jul 1974 Космонавт 2-го класса Astronaut 2nd Class

Promotions

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

Date Insignia Cyrillic English
30 Oct 1954 Лейтенант Lieutenant
24 Apr 1957 Старший лейтенант Senior Lieutenant
30 Mar 1959 Капитан Captain
05 Nov 1961 Майор Major
11 Aug 1962 Подполковник (Podpolkovnik) Lieutenant Colonel
30 Apr 1965 Полковник (Polkovnik) Colonel
05 May 1976 Генерал-майор авиации Major-General (Aviation)
20 Aug 1993 Retired from the Air Force

Cosmonaut

In 1960, he was selected as one of the first group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts for the Soviet space program.[1] The training took place between March 1960 and January 1961, and Popovich passed his final exams in Cosmonaut Basic Training on 17/18 January 1961.[4] He was appointed as an astronaut on 25 January 1961.[4]

He was considered as a strong candidate for the first spaceflight - but while Yuri Gagarin was ultimately chosen for the Vostok 1 flight, Popovich served as the flight's capcom.[3]

From May to August 1961, he trained to fly on spacecraft "Vostok-2" in a group of astronauts, followed (between September and November 1961) with training to fly "Vostok-3". This flight was cancelled. [4] Between November 1961 and May 1962, he trained as a pilot for "Vostok-4". Between June and August of that year, he received further training in the maintenance of this spacecraft.[4]

He commanded the space flight Vostok 4 ([Восток-4] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) in 1962[1] which, along with Andrian Nikolayev on Vostok 3, was the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. His call sign for this flight was Golden eagle (Бе́ркут).

In January 1964, he became a cosmonaut instructor, becoming deputy comander to the 2nd group of cosmonauts.[4]

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.[3]

In 1968, he was selected as captain for Soyuz 2, but after the death of Vladimir Komarov during the reentry of Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2 was launched without a crew.

In 1969 he was a senior cosmonaut instructor, and became (by 1972) the Chief of cosmonaut training.[4]

In 1974, he commanded his second (and final) space flight Soyuz 14 ([Союз 14] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) in 1974[1]. Again, his call sign for this flight was Golden eagle (Бе́ркут). This flight was the first to the Salyut 3 space station.

In 1977, he received a post-graduate degree in technical sciences.[1][4]

In March 1978, he was on duty in the Flight Control Center for Vladimír Remek's flight aboard Soyuz 28.

From 1978 he was the deputy chief of the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center responsible for research and testing work.[4] From 1980 to 1989, he was Deputy chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center. In January 1982, he was removed from the list of active cosmonauts, so that he could serve as Deputy Chief for Scientific Testing and Research at the Center.[4]

Socio-Political Life

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

  • From 1992: Chairman of the Boxing Federation of Russia.
  • From 1994: President of the Yuri Gagarin Foundation; President of the Social Support for Veterans of the Armed Forces of the Union
  • From 1996: Member of the Editorial Board of Space News
  • From 1998: Member of the Editorial Board of the All-Russia scientific and technical magazine Flight
  • From 1999: President of the Ukrainian Union of Cosmonauts
  • Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
  • President of the Association of Space Museums of Russia (AMKOS)
  • Honorary President of the International Association of Veterans of Physical Education and Sport (MAFIS)
  • Honorary Chairman of the Society of Ukrainian Culture (Slavutich)

Honours

Honours awarded to Pavel Popvich (in order of first award)

Awards and Medals

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

Date of Award Award
17 Jun 1961 Order of the Red Star[1]
1962 Pilot Cosmonaut Of The Soviet Union[1]
1962 Honorable Radio Operator
1962 Honored Master of Sports of the USSRa
1962 Development Of The Virgin Lands
19 Aug 1962 Hero of the Soviet Unionb[1]
19 Aug 1962 Order of Lenin[1]
15 Nov 1962 Gold Star Labor Hero of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam[1]
20 July 1974 Hero of the Soviet Union[1]
20 Jul 1974 Order of Lenin[1]
1982 Order of Friendship of Peoples[1]
13 May 1985 Medal For Strengthening Combat Co-Operation
9 Apr 1996 Order of Honorc
6 Oct 2000 Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th Graded
1 Dec 2005 Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav the Wise, 4th Classe
Unknown Order of the Badge of Honor[1]
Unknown Medal of the Republic of Cuba
Unknown 9 Commemorative Medals

Notes:

a For setting records in space flight
b Medal number 11117[5]
c For services to the state, many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art (as President of the Association of Space Museums)[8] (Presidential Decree No. 512 of April 9, 1996)
d For services to the state and long-term fruitful work[8] (Presidential Decree No. 1724 on October 6, 2000)
e For significant personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Ukrainian-Russian relations, promoting the rise of the authority of the Ukrainian state in the world[8] (Presidential Decree No. 1682/2005 dated December 1, 2005)

Other honours

He received honorary citizenship of several cites:[1][2]

Notes:

a Popovich is the only person to have received the honorary citizenship of Kaluga twice. The first time was in August 1962 (Decision 597 of the Executive Committee of Kaluga City Council of Workers' Deputies), and the second time was in April 1964 (Decision 237 of the Executive Committee of Kaluga City Council of Workers' Deputies).[9]

A bronze sculpture to Popovich was established in Uzyn.[1]

The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain ridge in Antarctica and a minor planet.[1][4]

In 1991, he became director of the Institute Rossiyskogo for Monitoring of Land and Ecosystems, then worked as chairman of the board of directors of the All-Russia Institute of Aero-Photo-Geodesic Studies (VISKhAGI), dealing with the compilation of a land inventory of Russia using images from space.[1][4]

He had also been the chairman of Ukrainian diaspora organisation in Russia.

He was awarded a Gold Tsiolkovsky Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and a De La Vaux Medal from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[2][4]

Ufology

In 1984 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.

In the 2002 SciFi Channel documentary Out of the Blue, Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington D.C. with a delegation of scientists. The UFO was seen by everyone on board the plane. It was perfect triangle shaped and emitted a very bright, white light at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres and an altitude about 1,000 metres above the airplane. The object had en estimated speed of 1500 km/h travelling parallel to the airplane and passed and overtook the plane in about 30 to 40 seconds. [10]

Popovich was the president of the UFO association of Russia.

Bibliography

Details are from Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote, unless otherwise noted[4]

Books

  • "I Flew in the Morning" (1974)[5]
  • "Space Humanity" (1981)[5]
  • "Tested in Space and on Earth" (1982)[5]
  • "Endless Road Universe" (1985)[5]
  • "Robinson of the Universe" (1986)[5]

Works in Collections

  • "Space - My Job"
  • "High Orbit"
  • "Star"
  • "Conquest of Infinity"
  • "... 3, 2, 1!"

Essays

  • "Secrets of the Galaxy"
  • "Mysteries of the Eternal Cosmos"
  • "Forward - to the Sources of the Past"

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Pavel Popovich - one of forerunners of manned space research, dead". ITAR-TASS. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Doctors: Cosmonaut Popovich died of a stroke". VSESMI.RU. Russia: System News. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Pavel Popovich, sixth man in orbit, dies". collectSPACE. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Pavel Romanovich Popovich" (in Russian). Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Popovich, Pavel Romanovich" (in Russian). Russian War Heroes. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  6. ^ a b "Cosmonaut Popovich has now permanently left the ground" (in Russian). Novye Izvestiya. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  7. ^ "В Крыму скончался летчик-космонавт Павел Попович" (in Russian). New Region 2. Retrieved 2009-09-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ a b c "In Crimea, twice 'Hero of the Soviet' cosmonaut Pavel Popovich dies" (in Russian). Russia: Polit.ru. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  9. ^ "Ими гордится Калуга ("They Bring Pride to Kaluga")" (in Russian). Kaluga: Office of the Affairs of the Mayor of Kaluga. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  10. ^ James Fox, Tim Coleman, Boris Zubov. [[Out of the Blue (2002 film)|Out of the Blue]] (Documentary). Hannover House. Event occurs at 0:41:00. Retrieved 2008-11-03. {{cite AV media}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month2= and |date2= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help); Unknown parameter |year2= ignored (help) (Source does not state in which year this incident took place)

Further reading

  • Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex. "The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team" (Praxis Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-0-387-84823-5
  • Template:Cs icon Codr, Milan. "O kosmických dnech a nocích" (Praha : Práce, 1987)
Codru, Milan. "The cosmic days and nights" (Prague: Práce, 1987)
  • Template:Cs icon Codr, Milan. "Sto hvězdných kapitánů" (Praha: Práce, 1982)
Codr, Milan. "Sto Star Captains" (Prague: Práce, 1982)
  • Harvey, Brian. "Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration" (Praxis, 2007) ISBN 978-0-387-21896-0
  • Template:Ru icon Ребров, М. Ф. "Советские космонавты" (2-е изд.) (М.: Воениздат, 1983)
Rebrov, M. F. "Soviet cosmonauts" (2nd ed.) (Moscow: Military Publishing, 1983)
  • Template:Ru icon Шкадов, И. Н. (Пред.ред.коллегии) "Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь. Т.2." (М.: Воениздат, 1988)
Shkadov, J. H. (editor) "Heroes of the Soviet Union: A brief biographical dictionary Vol. 2" (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988)

External links

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