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Yuri Baturin
Russian cosmonaut and former politician (born 1949)
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]
