Yuri Baturin

Yuri Baturin
Юрий Батурин
Baturin in 2001
Born (1949-06-12) 12 June 1949
Moscow, Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Russian Federation
Space career
Cosmonaut
StatusRetired
Time in space
19d 17h 44m
Selection1997
MissionsMir EP-4 (Soyuz TM-28 / Soyuz TM-27), ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31)
Mission insignia

Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Батурин; born 12 June 1949, in Moscow) is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician.[1] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2]

Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1973, and is the former assistant to the president on National Security and secretary of the Defense Council (1996–1998). He is also an author in constitutional law.[3]

Baturin was also a cosmonaut who flew on two missions. His first spaceflight, sometimes called Mir EP-4,[4] was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-28 13 August 1998, and landed with Soyuz TM-27. He was a research cosmonaut for this mission, which lasted for 11 days 19 hours 39 minutes. His second spaceflight was ISS EP-1, which was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 on April 28, 2001, and landed with Soyuz TM-31. This mission was notable as carrying the first paying space tourist, Dennis Tito. For this mission, Baturin was designated a flight engineer; the mission lasted for 7 days 22 hours and 4 minutes.[1][5]

He married Svetlana Veniaminovna Polubinskaya; they had a daughter.[6]

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  1. 1 2 "Cosmonaut Biography: Yuri Baturin".
  2. ↑ О присвоении квалификационных разрядов федеральным государственным служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации (Decree 885) (in Russian). President of Russia. 12 June 1996.
  3. ↑ Yury Baturin. Studies in Constitutional Law. Moscow: ILPP, 2008, 114 pp, with illustrations [Russian: Батурин Ю. Конституционные этюды. - М.: Институт права и публичной политики, 2008 – 114 с., 80 с. ил.
  4. ↑ "Mir EP-4". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "Yuri Michaylovich Baturin". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
  6. ↑ "Dennis Tito's Space Vacation | SpaceRef". www.spaceref.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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