Leonid Kizim
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Leonid Denisovich Kizim | |
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Born | |
Died | June 14, 2010[1] Moscow,Russia | (aged 68)
Nationality | Soviet |
Occupation | Pilot |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Space career | |
Cosmonaut | |
Rank | Colonel General,Soviet Air Force |
Time in space | 374d 17h 56m |
Selection | Air Force Group 3 |
Missions | Soyuz T-3,Soyuz T-10/Soyuz T-11,Soyuz T-15 |
Leonid Denisovich Kizim(‹See Tfd›Russian:Леонид Денисович Кизим;5 August 1941 – 14 June 2010) was aSovietcosmonaut.
Biography
[edit]Kizim was born inKrasnyi Lyman,Donetsk Oblast,Soviet Union(now Lyman,Ukraine).[2]He graduated from Higher Air Force School in 1975; and served as a test pilot in the Soviet Air Force. He was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965. Kizim flew as Commander onSoyuz T-3,Soyuz T-10andSoyuz T-15,and also served as backup commander forSoyuz T-2.All together he spent 374 days 17 hours 56 minutes in space. On Soyuz T-15, he was part of the only crew to visit two space stations on one spaceflight (MirandSalyut 7). He later served as Deputy Director Satellite Control-Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense; after May 1995 he was Director of the Military Engineering Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics in St. Petersburg.
He left the cosmonaut program on June 13, 1987, but remained in the Soviet Air Force, and later the Russian Air Force. In 1993, he was placed in charge of theA.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy.He held that position until he retired from the Russian Air Force on September 10, 2001, at the rank ofColonel General.
Kizim died on June 14, 2010. He left a wife and two children.[1]Leonid Kizim was married with two children.
Awards
[edit]He was awarded:
- TwiceHero of the Soviet Union(December 10, 1980 and October 2, 1984);
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Order of Honour
- Order of Friendship
- ThreeOrders of Lenin
- Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
Foreign awards:
- Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia);
- Medal "30 Years of Victory over Japan's Militarists" (Mongolia);
- Medal "60 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution";
- Knight of theLegion of Honour(France);
- Kirti Chakra(India);
- Order of Merit(Ukraine).
References
[edit]- ^ab"Russian Cosmonaut Twice Hero of the USSR Leonid Kizim Passes Away".Russian Federal Space Agency. Archived fromthe originalon 16 July 2011.Retrieved15 June2010.
- ^"Ушел из жизни летчик-космонавт дважды Герой Советского Союза Леонид Денисович Кизим".Russian Federal Space Agency. Archived fromthe originalon 16 July 2011.Retrieved15 June2010.
External links
[edit]- KIZIM, Col.-Gen. Leonid DenisovichInternational Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.
- Leonid Denissovich Kizim,astronautix.com
- The official website of the city administration Baikonur - Honorary citizens of Baikonur
- 1941 births
- 2010 deaths
- People from Lyman, Ukraine
- Soviet cosmonauts
- Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
- Heroes of the Soviet Union
- Soviet Air Force generals
- Soviet colonel generals
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
- Recipients of the Kirti Chakra
- Commanders of the Legion of Honour
- Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
- Salyut program cosmonauts
- Spacewalkers
- Mir crew members
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