Sergei Krikalev left Earth from the USSR and came back to Russia.

1991 · 1992 · apart: 1 year

He was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union dissolved, staying 311 days, twice as long as planned — earning the nickname 'the last Soviet citizen'.

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• Dissolution of the Soviet Union1991 · Moscow. In December 1991 the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezha Accords, and on 25 December Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president. Fifteen independent states emerged in place of the USSR, and the Cold War came to an end.

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