On Friday, August 27, 2021, marks 28 years since the birth of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Vasilyevich Malysheva.
Yuri Vasilyevich graduated from Kharkiv Higher Military Aviation School of S.I. pilots Grovets: Engineer pilot (1963); Correspondence Faculty of VVI. Yu.A. Gagarin (1977). From 1963 to 1967 He served in the Fighter Regiment of the Transcaucasian Air Force on: pilot, senior pilot. From 1967 to 1992. In the CPC of the Air Force, the Star City of the Moscow region. In 1967, he was listed in the cosmonauts squad of the CPC, the Air Force to the post of astronaut’s listener (4th set); In 1969 – Cosmonaut of the cosmonaut detachment 3 of the department 1 department.
Yuri Malyshev led two space flights: as the Commander of the Expedition of Soyuz T-2 – “Salute-6” – Soyuz T-2, as a commander of the Soviet-Indian expedition to visits “Union T-11” – “Salute-7” – “Union T-11”. In 1988, dropped out of the cosmonauts of the cosmonauts for health. In 1992, fired to reserve.
President of the Soviet-Nepalese Friendship Company. Awarded the orders of Lenin (1980, 1984), the medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation, the Order of Ashok Chakra (India, 1984). Honorary Citizen Cities: Nikolaevsk and Kamyshin Volgograd region, Kirzhach Vladimir region, Kaluga, Gagarin, Dmitriev-Lgovsky Kursk region, Leninsk, Jazcazgan, Arkalyk.
Cosmonaut pilot USSR Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev died on November 8, 1999. He was buried on a graveyard der. Leonich, near the star town.