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Lev Dyomin : biography

January 11, 1926 – December 18, 1998

Lev Stepanovich Dyomin ( January 11, 1926, in Moscow – December 18, 1998, in Zvyozdny Gorodok) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but the docking failed.

Biography

Dyomin gained a doctoral degree in engineering from the Soviet Air Force Engineering Academy and the rank of Colonel in the Soviet Air Force.

He only made a single spaceflight before resigning from the space programme in 1982 and taking up deep-sea research.

He died of cancer in 1998.

He was awarded:

  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Medal "For Combat Merit"
  • Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
  • Order of the Banner of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria