Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский born February 13 1939 in Leningrad Russian SFSR; died August 31 2011) was a USSR cosmonaut.Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of deepsea diving unity in the Baltic Sea War Fleet. Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23.
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