Pavel Romanovich Popovich (; ; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009)

Following his military and space service (see below), he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 6th–11th convocations.<!-- from Russian Wikipedia article -->

Other honours

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He received honorary citizenship of several cities:

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File:1974 CPA 4402.jpg|Postage stamp (Soviet Union): Pavel Popovich and Yury Artyukhin – Soyuz 14 Mission

File:Stamp 2012 Popovych (1).jpg|2012 stamp of Ukraine

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Ufology

In 1984 Popovich joined the Russian Academy of Sciences' newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy's UFO Commission.

In the 2002 SciFi Channel documentary Out of the Blue, Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington, D.C., with a delegation of scientists. The UFO was seen by everyone on board the plane. It was perfect triangle shaped and emitted a very bright, white light at a distance of about and an altitude about above the airplane. The object had an estimated speed of travelling parallel to the airplane and passed and overtook the plane in about 30 to 40&nbsp;seconds.

Further reading

  • Codr, Milan. "O kosmických dnech a nocích" (Praha : Práce, 1987)

: Codru, Milan. "The cosmic days and nights" (Prague: Práce, 1987)

  • Codr, Milan. "Sto hvězdných kapitánů" (Praha: Práce, 1982)

: Codr, Milan. "Sto Star Captains" (Prague: Práce, 1982)

  • Ребров, М. Ф. "Советские космонавты" (2-е изд.) (М.: Воениздат, 1983)

: Rebrov, M. F. "Soviet cosmonauts" (2nd ed.) (Moscow: Military Publishing, 1983)

  • Шкадов, И. Н. (Пред.ред.коллегии) "Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь. Т.2." (М.: Воениздат, 1988)

: Shkadov, J. H. (editor) "Heroes of the Soviet Union: A brief biographical dictionary Vol. 2" (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988)

  • "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - A.I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 2001.[http://cosmosravelin.narod.ru/r-space/bibliografia.html];
  • "Bank of the Universe" - edited by Boltenko A. C., Kyiv, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix",
  • "Rockets and people" – B. E. Chertok, M: "mechanical engineering", 1999.
  • A.I. Ostashev, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov - The Genius of the 20th Century — 2010 M. of Public Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training MGUL .
  • "S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity" - edited by C. A. Lopota, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014
  • Hall, Rex; David Shayler; Bert Vis. Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin. Praxis. 2005
  • Peoples History – from "Советские космонавты" (Soviet Cosmonauts)
  • Медицинская Газета (Medical Newspaper) Interview with Popovich
  • Biograph.ru Biography
  • Novye Izvestiya Obituary – includes extracts from Popovich's logbook
  • The official website of the city administration Baikonur - Honorary citizens of Baikonur
  • http://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2012/08/15/91709/
  • http://www.tvroscosmos.ru/4193/
  • https://twitter.com/search?q=Pavel%20Popovich&src=typd
  • http://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/blog-history-40900761