Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko

This article is about the Soviet cosmonaut born in 1938. For the Russian cosmonaut born in 1964, see Oleg Kononenko.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoriyevich and the family name is Kononenko.
Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko
Born(1938-08-16)August 16, 1938
Samarskoye, Rostov Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
DiedSeptember 8, 1980(1980-09-08) (aged 42)
South China Sea
NationalitySoviet
OccupationPilot
Space career
Cosmonaut

Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko (August 16, 1938 – September 8, 1980) was a member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1. He was born in the village of Samarskoye, in Rostov, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union.[1] He graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Institute in 1975.[2][3] On July 12, 1977, he was selected for cosmonaut training as a pilot of the Buran space shuttle. He survived an aircraft ejection on the Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk on December 27, 1979.[4] Kononenko was married three times and had four children.[4] He was killed on September 8, 1980, in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on takeoff from the Minsk in the South China Sea.[2]

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  3. ^ "Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts: Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko". SPACEFACTS.de. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
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