Zhukov, Yuri Averkovich
Person · Russia
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Russian officer. Commander of Baikonur Cosmodrome 1983-1989.
Spent his entire career in the RVSN Strategic Rocket Forces, becoming First Deputy Commander of a Missile Army before being sent to the General Staff Academy. Thereafter commander at Baikonur, where he supervised flight test of a new generation of launch vehicles (Zenit-2, Energia, and Buran).