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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Valery Rozhdestvensky,Soviet cosmonaut, died he was 72.

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky was a USSR cosmonaut  died he was 72..

( February 13, 1939 - August 31, 2011)

Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of deepsea diving unity in the Baltic Sea War Fleet.
Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23.[1] After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on June 24, 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries. He was married with one child.
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