Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko | |
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| Born | August 16, 1938 |
| Died | September 8, 1980 (aged 42) |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Occupation | Pilot |
| Space career | |
| Cosmonaut | |
Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko (August 16, 1938 – September 8, 1980) was a member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1. He was born in the village of Samarskoye, in Rostov, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union.[1] He graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Institute in 1975.[2][3] On July 12, 1977, he was selected for cosmonaut training as a pilot of the Buran space shuttle. He survived an aircraft ejection on the Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk on December 27, 1979.[4] Kononenko was married three times and had four children.[4] He was killed on September 8, 1980, in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on takeoff from the Minsk in the South China Sea.[2]
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