Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov (russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Глазко́в; 2 October 1939 – 9 December 2008)
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Soviet
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Air Force officer and a
cosmonaut
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. Glazkov held the rank of
major general
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in the
Russian Air Force
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Biography
Born in
Moscow
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, in the
USSR
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, Glazkov graduated from Kharkov Military Engineering High School in 1962, receiving the candidate of technical sciences degree.
He served as a flight engineer in the
Soviet Air Force
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before being selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965. He flew as a Flight Engineer on the
Soyuz 24
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mission. He retired from the cosmonaut corps on 26 January 1982. After Soyuz 24, he was made a
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
.
He was awarded a doctorate in technical sciences in 1974, and in 1989 he became the first Deputy Chief of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, a position from which he retired in May 2000.
Glazkov wrote several books, including a technical guide to spacewalking, ''Outside Orbiting Spacecraft'' in 1977 and a book about space exploration, ''The World Around Us'' in 1986. Glazkov also authored several
science-fiction
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novels. One of which, "Чёрное безмолвие" (''The Black Silence'') was
illustrated
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by fellow cosmonaut
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov (russian: Владимир Александрович Джанибеков, born 13 May 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights.
Biography
Dzhanibekov was born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krysin (russian ...
. It was published in 1987.
Glazkov was survived by his wife Lyubov, and two children.
Honours and awards
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Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
(5 March 1977)
*
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
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*
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
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;
**3rd class (2 March 2000) - a great service to the state in the development of manned space flight
**4th class (9 April 1996)
*
Order of Lenin
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(5 March 1977)
*
Order of the Red Star
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(21 February 1985)
*
(1977)
* Medal "For development of virgin lands" (1977)
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Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"
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(18 February 1991)
*
Order Dostyk
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(Kazakhstan, 11 December 1998)
* Medal "100th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman yoke" (Bulgaria) (22 October 1978)
* Medal "For Strengthening brotherhood in arms" (Bulgaria)
* Medal "30th anniversary of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic of Cuba" (24 November 1986)
*
USSR State Prize
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(28 October 1987)
*
State Prize of the Russian Federation
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(1999)
* Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
* Honorary Diploma of the VM Komarov (FAI)
* Honorary Citizen of
Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...
,
Kaluga
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,
Terek (Russia),
Kostanai
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,
Zhezkazgan
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(Kazakhstan),
Poznań
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(Poland)
References
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1939 births
2008 deaths
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Writers from Moscow
Russian Air Force generals
Soviet Air Force officers
Soviet cosmonauts
Soviet non-fiction writers
Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
Soviet science fiction writers
Russian major generals
Male non-fiction writers
Salyut program cosmonauts