Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 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.

September 5 is the 248th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 117 days remain until the end of the year.