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Oleg Grigorievich Makarov (Russian
language|Russian: Олег
Григорь&
#1077;вич
Макаров;
January 6, 1933 – May 28, 2003) was a Russian
astronaut|cosmonaut.

Makarov was born in Udomlia (Tver Oblast) near
Moscow in the Soviet Union. He graduated from
Moscow State Technical University|Bauman Moscow
Higher Technical School in 1957, and started
working at the Special Design Bureau Number One
(which is now RSC Energia) as an engineer, working
on the Vostok spacecraft|Vostok spacecraft. In
1966 he was selected for cosmonaut training.

At first he did work on the Soviet lunar program,
and was training with Aleksei Leonov for a
circumlunar flight. However after the success of
Apollo 8 the flight was cancelled.

His first spaceflight was Soyuz 12 in 1973, a test
flight to check the changes made to the Soyuz
spacecraft after the Soyuz 11 disaster. His second
flight was Soyuz 18a, aborted shortly after launch
with an emergency landing in north-west China.
With his third launch on Soyuz 27 he flew to space
station Salyut 6, and landed 5 days later with the
Soyuz 26 spacecraft. His last mission was Soyuz
T-3, during which several repairs on Salyut 6 were
done. He was also in backup crews for the flight
Soyuz 17 and Soyuz T-2. Altogether he spent 20
days 17 hours 44 minutes in space.

After his final spaceflight he continued to work
for Energia, both in the Mir space station program
as well as the Energia-Shuttle Buran|Buran
development.

Among other decorations he received the title of
Hero of the Soviet Union twice, and the Order of
Lenin four times.

He died in 2003 from a heart attack.