Boris Borissowitsch Jegorow

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Boris Borissowitsch Jegorow
Country: USSR
selected on May 26, 1964
Vozhod-1 group
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 12, 1964
Landing: October 13, 1964
Time in space: 1d 0h 17min 3s
retired on October 14, 1964
Space flights

Boris Borissowitsch Jegorow ( Russian Борис Борисович Егоров ; born November 26, 1937 in Moscow ; †  September 12, 1994 ibid) was a Soviet cosmonaut and doctor.

Life

Boris Yegorov, who came from a medical family (his father was a neurosurgeon and member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, his mother an ophthalmologist), began studying medicine , which he graduated from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1961. During this course he met Yuri Gagarin . From then on he became enthusiastic about space medicine and specialized in equilibrium systems. His father was personally acquainted with the chief designer of OKB-1 Korolev and informed him about his son's intention to become an active cosmonaut himself. In 1961 he applied to the Humboldt University in Berlin . As early as 1962 he was appointed to the mobile rescue team of the manned space program as a medic and parachutist. When selecting military and civilian medics for the planned flight from Vozhod 1 , he was also taken into account on the recommendation of the chief designer. Immediately after the establishment of the Institute for Medical-Biological Problems at the end of 1963 (IMBP: until today the center of space medicine in Russia), he took up research there. After he had been selected as a cosmonaut on May 26, 1964 , he prevailed against Vasily Lazarev, who was also a promising aviation doctor and military pilot, and Alexei Sorokin, who worked at the astronaut training center .

Boris Jegorow flew into space as a research cosmonaut to carry out a medical program on October 12, 1964, together with the commander Vladimir Komarow and the civil flight engineer from OKB-1 Konstantin Feoktistow in the new three-seater spaceship Voschod 1 to carry out a medical program and thus became the first physician in Universe . At the time of his space flight, Jegorow was only 26 years old, after German Titow and Valentina Tereschkowa he is still the third youngest spaceman of all time.

Just one day after his return, Yegorov left the cosmonaut corps, further flights by doctors were not planned for the time being. Yegorov's double Sorokin and Lazarev from the air force also left the cosmonaut corps after the flight from Vozhod 1. His colleague at the IMBP and second substitute Lasarev was confirmed again as a cosmonaut candidate on October 28, 1965 and was later used in the Soyuz program .

Yegorov on a Soviet postage stamp (1964)

In 1965 Jegorow visited the GDR and received an honorary doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1967 the former cosmonaut received his doctorate as a candidate in medical science . In 1976, Jegorow completed his habilitation on the subject of theoretical principles and systems of reaction of the human condition under the conditions of weightlessness and was appointed professor in 1984 .

In 1967, Jegorow took up a position as laboratory manager at the Institute for Medical-Biological Issues ( Institute Mediko-Biologitscheskich Problem ). From 1984 to 1992 the doctor was the head of the Biomedical-Technological Institute in the Ministry of Health of the USSR. In 1989 Boris Yegorov retired from active military service as a colonel in the medical service. From 1992 to 1993 he was an adviser to the President of the Russian Telebank. Egorov died in 1994 of complications from a heart attack.

Egorov was married three times, u. a. from 1970 to 1989 with the actress Natalja Kustinskaja , and had three children.

Others

The asteroid (8450) Egorov and a crater on the back of the moon are named after the cosmonaut .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Asif Azam Siddiqi: Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945-1974. (PDF, 354 MB) In: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Special Report # SP-2000-4408, NAS 1.21: 4408, LC-00-038684. January 1, 2000, p. 414 , accessed April 12, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Honorary doctorate for Boris Jegorow, Neues Deutschland from March 30, 1965 (archive), accessed on March 4, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Egorov, Boris Borissovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Егоров, Борис Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet cosmonaut, doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1994
Place of death Moscow