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Krasnouralsk

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, USSR – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet

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 cosmonaut

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 who flew on the Soyuz 9

Soyuz 9

Soyuz 9 was a 1970 Soviet manned space flight. The two-man crew of Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov broke the five-year-old space endurance record with their nearly 18-day flight...

 and Soyuz 18

Soyuz 18

Soyuz 18 was a 1975 Soviet manned mission to Salyut 4, the second and final crew to man the space station. Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously was tied during the mission.-Crew:-Backup...

 missions.

He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute

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 and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft

Vostok spacecraft

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. He also lectured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In 1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself.

After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the Salyut 4

Salyut 4

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 space station

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, he was pulled from active flight status in 1976. He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6

Salyut 6

Salyut 6 , DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the 'second-generation' type of space station. Salyut 6 possessed several revolutionary advances over the earlier...

 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Buran

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 project.

He was president of the Soviet Union Chess

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 Federation from 1977 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1989.

During the 1980s he was the host of a popular television program on space exploration entitled Man, Earth, Universe.

In 1993, he left the space programme and was elected to the State Duma

State Duma

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 in 1994.

Sevastyanov, along with Alexey Leonov, Rusty Schweickart

Rusty Schweickart

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 and Georgi Grechko

Georgi Grechko

Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union...

 established the Association of Space Explorers

Association of Space Explorers

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 in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space

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