Yuri Artyukhin

Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian: ???? ???????? ???????; June 22, 1930 – August 4, 1998) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made a single flight into space.

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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 was to have flown on the Voskhod 3 mission if it had not been cancelled. He made his single flight on Soyuz 14 in 1974, where his area of expertise was presumably put to good use.

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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.

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He died after a long battle with cancer.

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