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Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev Russian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 31 December 1940. Died 2 May 1990.

Personal: Male. Born in Leningrad, Leningrad, Russia. Heart attack during a tennis-match. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chernigov and Chuguyev Higher Military Pilot School and from Gagarin Air Force Academy, Monino, 1976. Candidate of technical sciences degree, 1982. 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: 22 May 1973. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Left cosmonaut group for medical reasons.

Employed as a scientist at a research institute of the Ministry of Defense.

Yakovlev 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..
15 June 1971 - Soyuz Kontakt and DOS-2 crew assignments made.. Crews are formed for six Soyuz (Kontakt?) flights. Soyuz s/n 18 - Filipchenko and Grechko; Soyuz s/n 19 - Lazarev and Makarov; Soyuz s/n 20 - Vorobyov and Yazdovsky; Soyuz s/n 21 - Yakovlelv and Porvatkin; Soyuz s/n 22 - Kovalyonok and Isakov; Soyuz s/n 23 - Shcheglov and [illegible]. Five crews are training for Salyut flights: Crew 1, Leonov, Rukavishnikov, and Kolodin; Crew 2, Gubarev, Sevastyanov, and Voronov. TsKBEM engineer cosmonauts are to be selected will round out the last three crews, but VVS members will be: Crew 3, Klimuk, Artyukhin; Crew 4, Bykovskyy, Alekseyev; Crew 5, Gorbatko. Leonov and Gubarev will have their crews fully ready for Soyuz 12 by 30 June, for a launch date between 15-20 July. Leonov is asking to go to East Germany for two to three days in the first week of July. Kamanin is fully opposed to this - he is thinkng not of his upcoming flight, but the exhibition of his paintings at the Prezdensk Gallery!
2 May 1990 - Cosmonaut Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev dies at age of 49 -- Natural causes..
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