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Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko Ukrainian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 8 November 1942. Died 13 April 2002.

Personal: Male. Born in Novaya Mayachka, Kerson, Ukraine. Heart attack at a railway station. Soviet Air Force Colonel and pilot Soviet Air Force. Graduated from Bauman-Higher School, Moscow, with an engineering diploma, 1973. Graduated from Moscow University, 1990. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Deceased Entered space service: 23 October 1965. Left space service: 30 April 1969. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Retired from active cosmonaut duty for medical reasons.

Worked at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Kramarenko Chronology

23 October 1965 - Cosmonaut selection. Although Kamanin desired 40 new cosmonaut-trainees, in the end only 17 were selected. They were:

  • Pilots: Voloshin, Sharafutdinov, Shcheglov, Kramarenko, Yakovlev, Petrushenko,Skvortsov, Fyodorov,Klimuk, Sarafanov, Zudov, Kizim
  • Engineers: Kolesnikov,Stepanov Eduard, Lisun, Rozhdestvensky, Khludeyev, Glazkov, Preobrazhensky
  • Navigator: Grishchenko
  • Physician: Degtyarov
28 October 1965 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected..
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