Yuri Baturin | |
|---|---|
| Юрий Батурин | |
 Baturin in 2001 | |
| Born | 12 June 1949 |
| 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.[1] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2]
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.[3] Baturin was also a cosmonaut who flew on two missions.
His first spaceflight, sometimes called Mir EP-4,[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.[1][5]
He married Svetlana Veniaminovna Polubinskaya; they had a daughter.[6]
- ^ a b "Cosmonaut Biography: Yuri Baturin".
- ^ О присвоении квалификационных разрядов федеральным государственным служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации (Decree 885) (in Russian). President of Russia. 12 June 1996.
- ^ Yury Baturin. Studies in Constitutional Law. Moscow: ILPP, 2008, 114 pp, with illustrations [Russian: Батурин Ю. Конституционные этюды. - М.: Институт права и публичной политики, 2008 – 114 с., 80 с. ил.
- ^ "Mir EP-4". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Dennis Tito's Space Vacation | SpaceRef". www.spaceref.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.