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Question by skhplbliss: How many Russian cosmonauts have died over the years?
I understand that the Russians covered up many of their deaths, but are there any credible estimates?
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Answer by Jonny
I think its 4 Russians.
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popovoleg70 says
Yes,of course you understand that many native Russians really died but there are not any credible estimates for they covered up it too.
Uriy says
Five people – is accurate information.
March 23, 1961 in an isolation chamber scientific institute in the experiment died Valentin Bondarenko, who was a first team of astronauts. The reason – fire occurring through negligence.
April 24, 1967 With the return of the Soyuz-1 “from outer space died cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. By accident the vessel resulted in twisting sling parachute.
June 30, 1971 Upon returning from space died G. Dobrovolsky, Volkov and V. Pacaev.
Grigori Nelyubov – at the time of death in the group cosmonaut had not included.
The world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – died in an crash outside the space program.
If you take them, then – seven.
For everlasting memory! (They are my countrymen)
Why do you need it?
(Russian scientist)
eric says
A lot more than they care to admit.
LaurelHS says
Assuming you mean cosmonauts who died on the job:
Valentin Bondarenko died a day after being burned in a test chamber fire, 1961. This is one of the deaths that was covered up. They also covered up the 1966 death of Grigori Nelyubov, but he had been kicked out of the cosmonaut program before he died. He was hit by a train while wandering around at night intoxicated; his death was either an accident or a suicide.
Vladimir Komarov died after a re-entry parachute failure on Soyuz 1, 1967.
Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash in 1968. This was not covered up but the KGB gave some conflicting explanations for the accident.
Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski and Viktor Patsayev died on Soyuz 11 because the cabin depressurized during re-entry and they weren’t wearing spacesuits so they suffocated. That was 1971.
Chandramohan P.R says
4reported deaths in space flights.