Artyukhin, Yuri Petrovich

He was born on June 22 (according to documents - July 22), 1930 in the village of Pershutino (according to documents - the village of Lavrovo ), now Klinsky district of the Moscow region, in the family of a military pilot. Russian. Member of the Communist Party since 1957 . In 1948 he graduated from 10 classes of Klinsky railway school No. 4.

Since 1942 he worked on a collective farm.
September 16, 1948 - December 11, 1950 - cadet of the Serpukhov military aviation technical school of special services .
Since February 19, 1951, he has been an air squadron technician for the special service of 231 assault air regiment of 74 assault air division of the 45th air army of the Trans-Baikal Military District.
August 21, 1952 - March 1958 - student of VVIA named after N.E. Zhukovsky , received a diploma in the specialty "Electrical Engineer Air Force".
Since March 7, 1958 - Senior Engineer for Automation of Aircraft Engines, Department of Aircraft Automation, Department of Aviation Instruments from January 24, 1959 - senior engineer for electrical and instrumentation equipment of aircraft; from February 25, 1961 - senior engineer of the 19th laboratory at the VVIA named after N.E. Zhukovsky. Engaged in the development of computer technology.
June 27, 1980 at the Military Engineering Institute. A.F. Mozhaysky (Leningrad) defended his thesis and received the degree of “ Candidate of Technical Sciences ” in space exploration.

Since January 10, 1963 he was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force CPC . In 1963-1965, he twice participated in the work of scientific and measuring points for flight management as deputy and head of the operational group. In May 1965 - January 1966 he underwent training for the flight on the Voskhod-3 spaceship as part of the 3rd crew (together with V. A. Shatalov . During the flight of the Soyuz-6 , −7 , −8 spacecraft (October 1969), Soyuz-9 (June 1970) participated in the flight control at the Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov floating scientific and measuring station, and in 1971 during the Soyuz-11 flight, on the Akademik Sergey ship Korolev . "

In 1965 - 1969 he was a member of the group of Soviet cosmonauts who were preparing according to the Soviet L1 / "Probe" program of the moon and landing L3 on it. The flights of the Sond manned spacecraft under the lunar-fly program were canceled after the United States made its first flight around the Moon on Apollo 8 in December 1968, and the parallel lunar landing program was also not implemented due to the significant lag behind the United States with the complete loss of the USSR in the " moon race " after the successful landing of the Americans on the moon on the Apollo 11 in July 1969.

He was part of the crew of the first flight planned for June 1973 to the first military orbital station of the Almaz program . However, due to the depressurization of the Salyut-2 station, the flight took place later, to the next station of the program.

July 3-19, 1974 he made a space flight as a flight engineer (crew commander P.R. Popovich ) on the Soyuz-14 spacecraft and the Salyut-3 orbital station for 15 days and 17.5 hours. Call Sign - Golden Eagle-2 .

For the successful flight and courage and heroism shown at the same time, Colonel Engineer Artyukhin Yuri Petrovich Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 20, 1974 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 10746).

Since July 25, 1974 - astronaut of the 3rd class. Since December 11, 1974 - Head of Division 2 at the CPC, senior cosmonaut instructor; supervised military programs. In 1975-79 he was trained in the group on the military program "Diamond" . In 1979–81, he was preparing for a test flight on the TKS spacecraft.

January 26, 1982 was expelled from the cosmonaut corps in connection with the appointment to the post of deputy. Head of the 1st Directorate of the CPC for Research and Testing (until December 24, 1987 ), from December 10, 1982 Senior Researcher specialty "Military cybernetics, systems analysis."
Since March 3, 1988, Colonel Yu. P. Artyukhin is in reserve.

In 1988-1992 he worked as the head of the sector of the NGO Lightning ; He was engaged in the mathematical support of simulators "Burana" .

In 1975-1987 - deputy of the Moscow Regional Council.
In 1975-1993 - Vice President of the Friendship Society with Portugal.
In 1975-1992 - President of the Ski Federation of the RSFSR.
In 1985-1992 - Member of the Board of the Committee of Solidarity with Latin America.

Hobbies: hunting, fishing, collecting books about V.P. Chkalov .

He lived in Star City . He died on August 4, 1998 . He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Leonikh Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region ^[1] .

• Hero of the Soviet Union ( July 20, 1974 )
• Order of Lenin (July 20, 1974)
• Order of the Red Star ( 1980 )
• 12 medals, including “For Distinction in the Protection of the State Border of the USSR” ( 1977 )
• The Cross of Jan Krasitsky ( Poland , 1975 )

Honorary citizen of the cities of Baikonur (since 1977) ^[2] , Daugavpils , Dzhezkazgan , Kaluga , Klin , Leninsk , Varna ( Bulgaria ).

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1974), 1st category in skiing, shooting and athletics. Honorary radio operator of the USSR (1977).

Father - Artyukhin Pyotr Pavlovich, 1904-17.07.1941, military pilot, fought on Khalkhin-Gol, died during the defense of Leningrad.
Mother - Artyukhina (Rulina) Anna Vasilievna, born in 1907, head of the kindergarten.
Brother - Igor Artyukhin, born in 1941, master adjuster of vacuum devices.
Wife - Artyukhina (Lisovskaya) Nina Ivanovna, born in 1933, worked at the Nauka publishing house.
Son - Artyukhin Sergey Yuryevich, 1955-1999, Air Force soldier, c.t. n., beg. laboratories of the Riga Aviation Engineering School. Son - Artyukhin Vladimir Yuryevich, born in 1964, a member of the Air Force Central Research Institute-30 named after V.P. Chkalov.

• Control systems for spacecraft stabilized by rotation. - M., 1979.

• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
• Soviet and Russian astronauts. 1960-2000. - M., LLC Information and Publishing House "Cosmonautics News", 2001. - 408s. ISBN 5-93345-003-0

Artyukhin, Yuri Petrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

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