Valery Makrushin

Valeriy Grigoryevich Makrushin (Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Макрушин; 14 January 1940 – 2003^[1]) was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union.^[2]

Soviet space program

Makrushin joined the Chelomey Design Bureau after graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation in 1963. He was recruited to a cosmonaut team on March 22, 1972, and was one of the first cosmonauts selected from this design bureau. He became the head of the Chelomey OKB-52 Mashinostroyeniya cosmonaut team until it was disbanded on April 8, 1987. Makrushin then worked on the Almaz military program with the design bureau until his retirement.^[2]

References

^ Макрушин, Валерий Григорьевич
^ ^a ^b Hall, Rex; Shayler, David; Vis, Bert (2005). Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. pp. 335. ISBN 0-387-21894-7.

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[:1-1] Макрушин, Валерий Григорьевич

[:0-2] Hall, Rex; Shayler, David; Vis, Bert (2005). Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. pp. 335. ISBN 0-387-21894-7.

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