Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1929)

Andriyan Nikolayev

Soviet cosmonaut (1929–2004)

Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it considered the first Turkic cosmonaut.