Key facts
- Born
- Lev Stepanovich Dyomin , ( 1926-01-11 ) 11 January 1926, Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 18 December 1998 (1998-12-18) (aged 72), Zvyozdny Gorodok , Russia
- Occupation
- Pilot
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Rank
- Colonel , Soviet Air Force
- Time in space
- 2d 00h 12m
- Selection
- Air Force Group 2
- Missions
- Soyuz 15
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Zvyozdny gorodok
- Occupation
- philatelist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- 1974 CPA 4403.jpg
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- date of death
- 1998-12-18
- Commons category
- Lev Dyomin
- date of birth
- 1926-01-11
- P450
- Soyuz 15
- Commons gallery
- Lev Dyomin
- time in space
- 2892
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- name in native language
- Лев Дёмин
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Encyclopedic overview
Lev Stepanovich Dyomin (Russian: Лев Степанович Дёмин; 11 January 1926 – 18 December 1998) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but the docking failed.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lev Dyomin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.