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Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian
language|Russian: Юрий
Петрови&
#1095;
Артюхин;
June 22, 1930 – August 4, 1998) was a Soviet
Union|Soviet astronaut|cosmonaut who made a single
crewed space mission|flight into space.

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
was to have flown on the Voskhod programme|Voskhod
3 mission if it had 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 Shuttle Buran|Buran and in
cosmonaut training. 

He died after a long battle with cancer.

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