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Valery Polyakov: Record-breaking Russian cosmonaut dies aged 80
Valery Polyakov took the longest-ever spaceflight, clocking up 437 continuous days in the 1990s.


Valeri Polyakov, record-breaking cosmonaut, dies at age 80
The superlative spacefarer spent some 437 days straight in Earth orbit, helping test the limits of the human body, mind, and spirit.


Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov | Russian, Spaceflight, Record | Britannica
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov was a Russian cosmonaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight in history. Polyakov had an early interest in spaceflight, and in 1971 he joined the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, the leading Soviet institution for space biomedicine. In


Valeri Polyakov - Wikipedia
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