Levchenko Anatoly Biography

Anatoly Levchenko: Biography, News, Personal Life Age: 83 From the birthday of death: 47 years old Anatoly Semenovich Levchenko. Born on May 21 of the year in Krasnokutsk, Kharkov region - died on August 6. Soviet astronaut. Honored Player of the USSR Hero of the Soviet Union Anatoly Levchenko was born on May 21 of the year in Krasnokutsk, Kharkov region. Father - Semyon Pavlovich Levchenko, was a locksmith and a mechanical driver.

Mother - Praskovya Trofimovna Levchenko, head of the kindergarten. His father was drafted into the army just a month after the birth of Anatoly. He died in the year at the front. Anatoly never saw his father. In the year, he graduated from high school in Krasnokutsk. During the year, he worked in a horticultural economy.

Then he entered the Kremenchug Higher Military Aviation School of pilots, but in the year the school was disbanded and Levchenko was transferred to the Chernihiv VVAUL. In the year he graduated from the Chernihiv Higher Aviation School of pilots. He served in parts of the Air Force of the Moscow and Turkestan military districts, after which he went to the reserve with military service in the rank of captain.

In years - a test pilot. He participated in the tests of fighters, bombers and transport aircraft. In total, he mastered 87 types and modifications of aircraft. He was engaged in improving the characteristics of combat fighters, as well as strength and aerodynamic research, refinement of serial and modified power plants and experimental equipment. Its plaque was an hour and 22 minutes, of which hours and 36 minutes - test flights.

From the year he worked in the special training group under the Buran program. The test pilot of the 1st grade in the cosmonauts detachment was enlisted in the detachment of cosmonauts-researchers from this detachment of cosmonauts-testers. Initially, it was planned for the position of commander of the duplicate crew for the first space flight of the Buran ship, made several flights in the framework of horizontal flight tests of the flying laboratory of the BTS by the commander of the group called the Wolf Pack, there was a test pilot Igor Volk.

Levchenko was involved in the preparation in the crew in the year under the program of the Salyut-7 station. The BTS “Big Transport Airman” of the Burana, equipped with airfields from the airfield, was built as a simulator, a “large transport aircraft” of BTS-a “large transport aircraft”. For flight tests, BTS was intended. Before planting, the pilots controlled planning in a semi -automatic mode.

Planting was again performed in automatic mode. Since February, the deputy chief of the industry complex of training of cosmonauts -testers in LII. The space flight made in the period of the year as an astronaut-researcher on the ships of the Soyuz TM-4 Start; The crew commander is Vladimir Titov, the sorcerer - Musa Manarov and the “Union TM -3” landing; The crew commander is Yuri Romanenko, Bortinzhener - Alexander Alexandrov at the Mir station.

The flight duration was 7 days 21 hours 58 minutes. During the flight, she conducted a study of the possibility of controlling the “Buran” during the period of acute adaptation to zero gravity. After returning to the Earth, he conducted another study of the pilot's reaction during the control of the Buran after exposure to the factors of space flight. The disease and death of Anatoly Levchenko shortly after the commission of space flight in Anatoly Levchenko was discovered a brain tumor, which quickly progressed.

Later, the versions were expressed that the cause of the disease could be an accident during the landing of the TM-3 Union, when Levchenko could greatly hit his head on the output of the output hatch while moving from the station to the ship, or at the time or after landing. He died on August 6. It was decided not to report to the Cosmonauts Titov and Manarov about the death of their crew colleagues before returning to Earth.

He was buried in the Bykovsky memorial cemetery of the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. The name of Anatoly Levchenko named streets in the cities of Ufa and Zhukovsky. The Krasnokutsk school and the street, on which he lived in his young years, was named after Anatoly Levchenko. The memorial plaque was installed in the Zhukovsky Moscow Region on the village of Chkalov, where Levchenko lived.

Son - Kirill Anatolyevich Levchenko genus.