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Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin

Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin

(Civilian Buran Cosmonaut #3)

Born on...	19 Jan. 1946
Join Buran Team in:	1977
Left Buran Team in:	Killed on Su-26, 18 Aug. 1988
As...	Civilian Test Pilot
Major assignments:	Back-up Soyuz TM-4, 9 Buran ALT's

Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Military Pilot School, 1970; graduated from Zhukovsky Test Pilot School; graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1980; civilian test pilot of LII; was selected as cosmonaut for Buran-flights on 30.07.1980 (LII-1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 12/78 - 7/80; was assigned as double for Soyuz TM-4); died in a crash of a Su-26M aerobatic airplane on 18.08.1988 at LII (Zhukovsky Flight Research Center).

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