Yuri Baturin
Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin | |
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Born | |
Status | Retired |
Nationality | Russian |
Awards | Hero of the Russian Federation |
Space career | |
Cosmonaut | |
Time in space | 19d 17h 44m |
Selection | 1997 |
Missions | Mir 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. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1973, and is the former Assistant to the President on National Security and Secretaty of the Defense Council (1996-1998); he is also an author in constitutional law. Baturin was also a cosmonaut who flew on two missions.
His first spaceflight, sometimes called Mir EP-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 to first paying space tourist Dennis Tito. For this mission he was designated a Flight Engineer; the mission lasted for 7 days 22 hours and 4 minutes.
He married Svetlana Veniaminovna Polubinskaya (born 1954); they had a daughter, Alexandra Yurievna Baturina, (born 1982), a student at the Moscow State Academy of Law.
- 1949 births
- Living people
- 1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation
- Russian cosmonauts
- Astronaut-politicians
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
- Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Heroes of the Russian Federation
- Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation alumni
- Mir crew members
- Kutafin Moscow State Law University alumni
- Recipients of the Order of Courage (Russia)