ANDRIAN Nikolayev, who has died aged 74, broke all previous records for space travel when his spaceship Vostok III circled the Earth 64 times in 96 hours in August 1962; eight years later he set a new ...

Space Race pioneer Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev died July 3, 2004, in Cheboksary, Russia. Even among the first group of Soviet cosmonauts selected, he was considered elite, a member of the ...

MOSCOW – Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record, died July 3 of a heart attack in Cheboksary, the capital of his native Chuvash Autonomous Republic in ...

MOSCOW — Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died. He was 74. Nikolayev suffered a heart attack Saturday in Cheboksary, the capital of ...

Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died. He was 74. Nikolayev suffered a heart attack Saturday in Cheboksary, the capital of his native ...

Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University’s ornate assembly hall, Russia’s space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last ...

Andrian Nikolayev, 74, a Soviet cosmonaut whose 1962 space flight set an endurance record, died Saturday of a heart attack at a hospital in Cheboksary, the capital of his native Chuvash Republic in ...

The second half of the 20th Century saw humans set out to space for the first time. The Soviets and the Americans were at the forefront of this exciting new adventure and were competing against each ...

Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died. He was 74. Mr. Nikolayev had a heart attack July 3 in Cheboksary, the capital of his native ...

OBITUARY: The third man to fly in space, Soviet cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, died July 3 following a heart attack in Cheboksary, Russia. He was 74. Nikolayev, a lumberjack before joining the Soviet ...