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Jun 22, 1930 Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia Died on 04 Aug 1998 (aged 68)
Soviet cosmonaut
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About Yuri Artyukhin
- Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian: ?´??? ?????´??? ????´???; 22 June 1930 – 4 August 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, specializing 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 canceled.
- 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 4 August 1998.He was awarded: Hero of the Soviet Union Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Order of Lenin Order of the Red Star Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR" Jan Krasicki Cross (Poland)
