Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev

Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev

Country:	USSR
selected on	May 7, 1967
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	5th June 1980
Landing of the last space flight:	April 11, 1984
Time in space:	11d 20h 0min 30s
retired on	July 20, 1988
Space flights
Soyuz T-2 (1980) Salyut 6 EP-6 Soyuz T-11 / Soyuz T-10 (1984) Salyut 7 EP-3

Yuri Vasilievich Malyshev ( Russian Юрий Васильевич Малышев , scientific. Transliteration Jurij Vasil'evič Malyšev * 27. August 1941 in Nikolaevsk , Oblast Stalingrad , Russian SFSR , † 8. November 1999 in zvyozdny gorodok , Moscow Oblast , Russia ) was a Soviet cosmonaut .

education

After Yuri Malyshev attended high school No. 24 in Taganrog , Rostov Oblast , Russian SFSR from 1949 to 1957 , he joined the Soviet Air Force . In 1963, Malyshev completed his training at the Air Force College in Chuguyev , Kharkov Oblast , Ukrainian SSR . The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center selected the pilot as a spaceman on May 7, 1967. Malyshev completed his basic training for OKP cosmonauts , which he began in May 1967, on August 18, 1969. He attended the military academy of the air force "JA Gagarin" in Monino , which he successfully completed in 1977.

Cosmonaut activity

Salyut 6 EP-6

As the commander of the sixth visiting team from Salyut 6 , he tried out this further development of the Soyuz spaceship in 1980 with the Soyuz T-2 .

Salyut7 EP-1

Malyshev was to be the commander of the Salyut 7 EP-1 mission, which was to bring the first visiting crew to the new Salyut 7 space station on the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft . With Jean-Loup Chrétien , a Western European cosmonaut was part of the team for the first time. Due to heart problems Malyshev was taken from the team and replaced by Vladimir Dschanibekow .

Salyut 7 EP-3

In 1984 he flew with Soyuz T-11 to the Salyut 7 space station , of whose third visiting team he was the commander. The return to earth was with Soyuz T-10 .

Subsequent activity and private matters

After he left the cosmonaut corps on July 2, 1988, Malyshev became deputy head of the main department of the cosmonaut training center shortly thereafter. Eventually, Yuri Malyshev was promoted to colonel in the Russian Air Force Reserve. He died on November 8, 1999 in Star City near Moscow.

Malyshev was married and had two children.

Awards

Yuri Malyshev received the following awards and medals:

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1980, 1984)
Aviation cosmonaut of the USSR (1980)
Twice Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union
Twice the Order of Lenin (1980, 1984)
Ashoka Chakra Order of the Republic of India (1984)

literature

Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .

Web links

Commons : Yury Malyshev - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

spacefacts.de: Short biography

Individual evidence

^ Dennis Newkirk: Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight. March 7, 2008, accessed on April 28, 2009 : “The original commander for this mission was Yuri Malyshev. During training for the flight, the Soviet's said that a heart irregularity was detected which grounded Malyshev from spaceflight. Dzhanibekov was assigned as replacement commander of the flight. "

personal data
SURNAME	Malyshev, Yuri Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Малышев, Юрий Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet cosmonaut, pilot
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nikolayevsk , Stalingrad Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH	November 8, 1999
Place of death	Svyosdny Gorodok , Moscow Oblast , Russia

[1] Dennis Newkirk: Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight. March 7, 2008, accessed on April 28, 2009 : “The original commander for this mission was Yuri Malyshev. During training for the flight, the Soviet's said that a heart irregularity was detected which grounded Malyshev from spaceflight. Dzhanibekov was assigned as replacement commander of the flight. "