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Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 10 September 1940. Died 15 September 1995.

Personal: Male. Born in Moscow, Russia. Heart attack Soviet Air Force Graduated from Kiev Air Force Academy of Engineering,1962 Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Deceased Entered space service: 28 October 1965. Left space service: 11 October 1988. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967.

Worked as research scientist at the Gagarin Center. He was involved in the Buran program from 1986 - 1988.

Khludeyev Chronology

23 October 1965 - Cosmonaut selection. Although Kamanin desired 40 new cosmonaut-trainees, in the end only 17 were selected. They were:

  • Pilots: Voloshin, Sharafutdinov, Shcheglov, Kramarenko, Yakovlev, Petrushenko,Skvortsov, Fyodorov,Klimuk, Sarafanov, Zudov, Kizim
  • Engineers: Kolesnikov,Stepanov Eduard, Lisun, Rozhdestvensky, Khludeyev, Glazkov, Preobrazhensky
  • Navigator: Grishchenko
  • Physician: Degtyarov
28 October 1965 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected..
15 September 1995 - Cosmonaut Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev dies at age of 55 -- Natural causes..
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