Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts
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Grigori Grigoriyevich |
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 31.03.1934 |
| Birthplace: | Porfiryevka / Yevpatoriya Rayon / Crimean ASSR of the Russian SFSR |
| Marital status: | married |
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| Selection date: | 07.03.1960 |
| Selection group: | TsPK-1 |
| Position: | Test Cosmonaut (TC) |
| Status: | Ret. 04.05.1963 |
| Date of death: | 18.02.1966 |
| Place of death: | Ippolitovka / Primorsk Kray / Russian SFSR |
Spaceflights
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Backup assignments
| No. | Mission | Position |
| 1 | Vostok | Pilot Cosmonaut |
| 2 | Vostok 2 | Pilot Cosmonaut |
Additional information
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Graduated from Higher Air Force School,
Monino, 1963; Captain and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on
07.03.1960 (TsPK-1);
OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 3/60 - 18.01.1961; was
assigned as 2nd backup for
Vostok; discharged of disciplinary reasons;
his space career was aborted; he went back to flying jets in Siberia; sinking
deeper into depression and alcoholism, he experienced "a crisis of soul,"; in
the predawn hours of February 18, 1966, while drunk, he stepped in front of a
train near the Ippolitovka station, northwest of Vladivostok, and was killed.
Whether it was intentional or accidental, nobody could tell. |
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