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Personal: Male, married. Born in Baintumen (now Chojbalsan), Mongolia. MD Civilian Medical Doctor. Graduated from Military Medical Academy, Leningrad, 1960. Candidate of medical sciences degree, 1975. Civilian Physician, Educated First Moscow Medical Institute. Doctor at IMBP.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Voskhod Physician Group - 1965. Deceased Entered space service: September 1965. Left space service: 1966.

Participated in 1966 Antarctic-Expedition on behalf of the IMBP. In 1967 was a participant of Thor Heyerdahl's Ra Expedition, sailing from Africa to America in a reed boat. Later chief of a department at IMBP, Moscow. Retired in 1993. Later director of television soap opera "Travelclub", in which he also played the role of the doctor.

1 June 1965 - Voskhod Physician Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected to provide trainees for planned Voskhod long-duration biomedical spaceflights to be made with a physician aboard.