Yury Petrovich Artyukhin (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Артю́хин; June 22 1930 – August 4 1998) was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single 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 would have flown on the Voskhod 3 mission had it not been cancelled.
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