Biography:Valery Makrushin
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Valeriy Grigoryevich Makrushin | |
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| Born | January 14, 1940 Saidabad, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Status | Retired |
| Died | 2003 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
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| Selection | Almaz Engineer Cosmonaut Group 1 (1972) |
| Missions | TKS-1 (cancelled), Salyut 7/TKS-2 (cancelled) |
Valeriy Grigoryevich Makrushin (Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Макрушин; 14 January 1940, Saidabad, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now in Uzbekistan) – 2003[1]) was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union.[2][3]
Soviet space program
Makrushin joined the Chelomey Design Bureau after graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation in 1963. He was recruited to a cosmonaut team on March 22, 1972, and was one of the first cosmonauts selected from this design bureau. He became the head of the Chelomey OKB-52 Mashinostroyeniya cosmonaut team until it was disbanded on April 8, 1987. Makrushin then worked on the Almaz military program with the design bureau until his retirement.[2]
References
- ↑ Макрушин, Валерий Григорьевич
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hall, Rex; Shayler, David; Vis, Bert (2005). Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. pp. 335. ISBN 0-387-21894-7. https://archive.org/details/russiascosmonaut00hall.
- ↑ "Makrushin". http://www.astronautix.com/m/makrushin.html.
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