Georgi Dobrovolski
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 53 years ago |
Date of birth | June 1,1928 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Odesa |
Ukraine | |
Date of died | June 29,1971 |
Died | Low Earth Orbit |
Space missions | Soyuz 11 |
Buried | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Children | Nataliia Dobrovolska |
Maryna Dobrovolska | |
Siblings | Aleksandr Dobrovolski |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Order of Lenin | |
Place of burial | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Education | Gagarin Air Force Academy |
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ID | 706199 |
Georgi Dobrovolski Life story
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and only humans to have died in space.