Nationality Soviet Name Yury Artyukhin Other occupation Pilot Awards First space flight Soyuz 14 | Selection Air Force Group 2 Space missions Soyuz 14 Time in space 15d 17h 30m Role Cosmonaut | |
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Born June 22, 1930
Pershutino, Moscow Oblast, Russia ( 1930-06-22 ) Died August 4, 1998, Zvyozdny gorodok, Russia Rank Colonel, Soviet Air Forces | ||
Yury Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Артю́хин; June 22, 1930 – August 4, 1998) was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.
Artyukhin graduated from the Soviet Air Force Institute with a doctorate in engineering, specialising in military communication systems. He was selected for the space programme in 1963 and would have flown on the Voskhod 3 mission had it not been cancelled. He made his single flight on Soyuz 14 in 1974, where his area of expertise was presumably put to good use.
He left the space programme in 1982 and held various positions in space-related fields. Most notably, he was involved in the development of the Soviet space shuttle Buran and in cosmonaut training.
He died of cancer on August 4, 1998.
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