Skip to content
228,584 profiles ranked

Pyotr Klimuk

Soviet cosmonaut · Russia · On the map · Astronauts · Born 1942 · age 84

Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to travel in space. Klimuk made three flights into space. From 1991 to 2003, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Pyotr Klimuk is read about 73 times a day, in 28 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 15 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare Claim

A life in dates

2011Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"Award2007Order of the Friendship of PeoplesAward2002Order of the Homeland Service 2nd ClassAward2001State Prize of the Russian FederationAward1996Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th classAward1995Order of ParasatAward1978Lenin Komsomol PrizeAwardOrder of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st classAwardUSSR State PrizeAward1975Gold Star medalAwardOrder of LeninAward1974Honorary Citizen of BrestAward1973Gold Star medalAwardHero of the Soviet UnionAward1942Born10 July 1942

Also in Deutsch

Media & music

Awards

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"2011
Order of the Friendship of Peoples2007
Officer of the Legion of Honour2004
Order of the Homeland Service 2nd Class2002
State Prize of the Russian Federation2001
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class2000
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class1996
Order of Parasat1995
Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class1984
USSR State Prize1978
Lenin Komsomol Prize1978
Order of Lenin1978
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class1978
Order of Lenin1975
Hero of the Soviet Union1975
Gold Star medal1975
Honorary Citizen of Brest1974
Order of Lenin1973
Hero of the Soviet Union1973
Gold Star medal1973
Zhukov Medal
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Brotherhood in Arms"
Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class
Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service"
Order of the Cross of Grunwald
Order of Honour
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class
Order of the Homeland Service

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Astronauts
Type
Astronaut
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1942 · age 84

Astronauts from Russia 6

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov51.3 of 100Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov51.2 of 100Valeri Tokarev51.3 of 100Pavel Vinogradov51.2 of 100Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev51.4 of 100Viktor Savinykh51.1 of 100