Georgy Shonin
Soviet cosmonaut
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| Intro | Soviet cosmonaut | |
| Places | Russia | |
| was | Aviator Pilot Aircraft pilot Astronaut Military personnel | |
| Work field | Military Science | |
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| Birth | 3 August 1935, Rovenky, Ukraine | |
| Death | 6 April 1997Zvyozdny gorodok, Russia (aged 61 years) | |
| Star sign | Leo |
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Biography
Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін; 3 August 1935 – 7 April 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.
Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He left the space program in 1979 for medical reasons.
Shonin's family hid a Jewish family from the Nazis during WWII.
Shonin later worked as the director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence (Russia).
He died of a heart attack in 1997.
Awards and honors
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Red Star
- Ten commemorative medals
- Medal "25 Years of People's Power" (Bulgaria)
- Three medals from the Mongolian People's Republic
- Five medals from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic