Nationality Soviet Name Georgy Shonin Other occupation Pilot Mission insignia First space flight Soyuz 6 | Selection Air Force Group 1 Space missions Soyuz 6 Time in space 4d 22h 42m Role Cosmonaut | |
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Born August 3, 1935
Rovenky, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) ( 1935-08-03 ) Died April 7, 1997, Zvyozdny gorodok, Russia Rank Lieutenant general, Soviet Air Forces | ||
Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.
Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He left the space programme in 1979 for medical reasons.
Shonin's family hid a Jewish family from theNazis during WWII.
Shonin later worked as the director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence (Russia).
He died of a heart attack in 1997.
He was awarded:
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