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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Tsetserleg, Mongolia. Mongolian Air Force Graduated from the Kiev Politechnical University, 1975. Candidate of technical sciences degree, 1984. Mongolian Air Force. Mongolian Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Intercosmos Group - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 March 1978. Left space service: 30 March 1981. Head of a laboratory at the Institute of Physics and Technology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Then Director of Informatics at the Remote Sensing Center of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulan Bator.
Ganzorig Chronology 1 March 1978 - Intercosmos Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. Training group of potential 'guest cosmonauts' for propaganda flights to the Salyut space station. The 'guests', from states allied to the Soviet Union, would be flown on Soyuz lifeboat changeout missions to the station. 22 March 1981 - Soyuz 39. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EP-9, Salyut 6 EO-6. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station the eighth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR) and Z. Gurragchi (Mongolian People's Republic) to conduct scientific investigations and experiments. Bibliography and Further Reading
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