Education
Artyukhin graduated from the Soviet Air Force Institute with a doctorate in engineering, specialising in military communication systems
Astronaut aviator engineer colonel
Artyukhin graduated from the Soviet Air Force Institute with a doctorate in engineering, specialising in military communication systems
He was selected for the space programme in 1963 and would have flown on the Voskhod 3 mission had it not been cancelled. He made his single flight on Soyuz 14 in 1974, where his area of expertise was presumably put to good use. He left the space programme in 1982 and held various positions in space-related fields.
Most notably, he was involved in the development of the Soviet space shuttle Buran and in cosmonaut training.
He died of cancer on August 4, 1998. He was awarded:
Hero of the Soviet Union
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Star
Medal "Foreign Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics"
January Krasicki Cross (Poland).
