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Yuri Averkovich Zhukov Russian Military Officer. Born 1933. Commander of Baikonur Cosmodrome 1983-1989.

Personal: Male.

Spent his entire career in the RVSN Strategic Rocket Forces, becoming First Deputy Commander of a Missile Army before being sent to the General Staff Academy. Thereafter commander at Baikonur, where he supervised flight test of a new generation of launch vehicles (Zenit-2, Energia, and Buran).


Bibliography:

  • Pervov, Mikhail, Raketnoye Oruzhiye RVSN, Violanta, Moscow, 1999..


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