Career
He made a series of high-speed (up to 800 km/h) ejection seat test and parachute test jumps in 1951. Then he started his test pilot career in 1951, working for the LII. Made numerous series flights by Soviet VTOL program and Yakovlev Yak-36 testing. Yuri Garnaev perished in a Mi-6PZh helicopter crash in Le Rove, France, while fighting extensive wildfires.