Talk:Gherman Titov

Youngest cosmonaut
At the time of his flight on August 6, 1961 he was aged 25 years 329 days – still the youngest person in space. --Anshelm &#39;77 01:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Requested move (first name spelling)
Why the article is named Gherman Titov, not German Titov? In fact there is a Russian name German derived from Latin. "German" also is the proper way to transliterate the name according Wikipedia's rules. "German Titov" also returns more hits in Google. --Dojarca 18:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The title of the English translation of his autobiography is Gherman Titov, first man to spend a day in space; the Soviet cosmonaut’s autobiography, as told to Pavel Barashev and Yuri Dokuchayev. Most people will know this spelling; it would require fairly conclusive evidence that English uses something else to move from this. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose - warps pronunciation Reginmund 23:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 10:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

By all means move: it is systematic per any sane transliteration of Cyrillic including those in Wikipedia's rules and preferred generally, after all see also the other German Titov (ice hockey). How a US publisher long ago solved his pronunciation problem can't be a binding precedent for us. --Malyctenar 12:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Titov was named after a character of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades — Hermann. So his name should be spelt as Hermann or Herman (from German soldier) but not German (from Latin or Franch Germain brotherly). --Serhii Riabovil (talk) 12:40, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

For what it's worth at this late stage since this discussion began in 2007, I've been reading mentions of Titov since the 1960s and without exception, no matter what the source, his first name has always been spelled Gherman.

How that is understood by Russians, I don't know – German? Herman? – but I think I saw it translated from Russian into English as German back in the 1970s or 80s. That is vague memory rather than a reliable, definitive statement, but it might be a useful clue to follow. O&#39;Dea (talk) 11:52, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

question
Isn't he the third human has been outside the Earth? He is after the first American, Alan Shepard that been in space. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.20.85.126 (talk) 02:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Titov was the second human to orbit the Earth. Shepard's flight was suborbital and was just 486 km long. Hellerick (talk) 05:30, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

question 2
Titov should be recognised as the first human to complete an orbit of the Earth as Gagarin landed short of his launch site meaning he failed to complete a full orbit. Should Wikipedia be updated to reflect these facts?

Proposal to add a picture
Just spotted this page http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Titov and I think the picture there would be pretty cool to have on English page. --206.64.224.128 (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

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