Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts
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Yuri Petrovich |
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 30.06.1947 |
| Birthplace: | Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | three |
| Selection date: | 02.09.1985 |
| Selection group: | LII-4 |
| Position: | Test Cosmonaut (TC) |
| Status: | Ret. ??.??.1996 |
| Date of death: | 05.06.2001 |
| Place of death: | Zhukovskiy, Russian Federation |
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Additional information
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Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Military Pilot
School, 1970; graduated from test pilot school in Zhukovsky, 1977; graduated
from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1980; civilian test pilot for the Air Force
Ministry; remarried to cosmonaut Tamara
Zakharova; was selected as cosmonaut on
02.09.1985 (LII-4);
OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 9/85 - 1987; after the
end of the Buran program he served again as test pilot and became 1999
Director, test pilot school of
LII, named after Mikhail M. Gromov; he died of heart
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