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Leonid Kizim

Soviet Union and Russia

Leonid Kizim was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded three long-duration missions to Salyut and Mir space stations during the 1980s, including a 1984 mission lasting nearly 237 days, a duration record at the time. Across his career he performed numerous spacewalks and helped oversee some of the earliest module additions and construction work on Soviet space stations.

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Birth Year
1941 1
Nationality
Russian 1
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1. Leonid Kizim - Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia biography
    Leonid Denisovich Kizim was born on August 5, 1941
  • Wikipedia biography [nationality]
    served as a test pilot in the Soviet Air Force
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