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Biography of Yevgeny Khrunov - Astronaut
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Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (Russian language|Russian: Евгений Васильевич Хрунов; September 10, 1933 – May 19, 2000) was a Soviet Union|Soviet astronaut|cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5 mission. He was born in Prudy. After leaving the space programme in 1980 he was appointed to the Chief State Committee for foreign economic relations until his retirement in 1989. He died of a myocardial infarction|heart attack. astronaut-stub

