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Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский; 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky
Born	(1939-02-13)13 February 1939 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died	31 August 2011(2011-08-31) (aged 72)
Nationality	Soviet
Occupation	Engineer, Soviet Navy
Space career
Cosmonaut
Time in space	2d 00h 06m
Selection	1965
Missions	Soyuz 23

Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deepsea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet.

Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23.[1] After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on 24 June 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries. He was married with one child. He died on 31 August 2011 at the age of 72.[2]

Awards

• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
• Order of Lenin
• Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
• Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"

References

На других языках

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[de] Waleri Iljitsch Roschdestwenski

Waleri Iljitsch Roschdestwenski (russisch Валерий Ильич Рождественский, wiss. Transliteration Valerij Il'ič Roždestvenskij; * 13. Februar 1939 in Leningrad, Russische SFSR; † 31. August 2011[1][2]) war ein sowjetischer Kosmonaut.

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- [en] Valery Rozhdestvensky

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[fr] Valeri Rojdestvenski

Valeri Ilitch Rojdestvenski (en russe : Валерий Ильич Рождественский ; ISO 9 : Valerij Il'ič Roždestvenskij) est un cosmonaute soviétique[1], né le 13 février 1939 et mort le 31 août 2011.

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[it] Valerij Il'ič Roždestvenskij

Valerij Il'ič Roždestvenskij (Leningrado, 13 febbraio 1939 – 31 agosto 2011) è stato un cosmonauta sovietico.

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[ru] Рождественский, Валерий Ильич

Вале́рий Ильи́ч Рожде́ственский (13 февраля 1939, Ленинград, РСФСР, СССР — 31 августа 2011, Звёздный городок, Московская область, Россия) — 38-й советский лётчик-космонавт, 81-й космонавт мира, бортинженер космического корабля «Союз-23» (1976), Герой Советского Союза[1].

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