Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich (left) and Andriyan Nikolayev, with Moscow in the background, 1962

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Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich (left) and Andriyan Nikolayev, with Moscow in the background, 1962. Popovich (1930–2009), the first cosmonaut from Ukraine, commanded the space flight of Vostok 4 in 1962. Nikolayev (1929–2004) was the commander of the Vostok 3 mission earlier the same year. He was the husband of the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. In 1969 Nikolayev accidentally found himself the target of a failed assassination attempt on Leonid Brezhnev. The perpetrator shot multiple times at the second car of a motorcade entering the Kremlin, which would normally have been carrying Brezhnev. Instead, four cosmonauts were travelling in the car, including Nikolayev. All four survived, but the driver was killed.
CaptionSoviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich (left) and Andriyan Nikolayev, with Moscow in the background, 1962. Popovich (1930–2009), the first cosmonaut from Ukraine, commanded the space flight of Vostok 4 in 1962. Nikolayev (1929–2004) was the commander of the Vostok 3 mission earlier the same year. He was the husband of the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. In 1969 Nikolayev accidentally found himself the target of a failed assassination attempt on Leonid Brezhnev. The perpetrator shot multiple times at the second car of a motorcade entering the Kremlin, which would normally have been carrying Brezhnev. Instead, four cosmonauts were travelling in the car, including Nikolayev. All four survived, but the driver was killed.
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