Nelyubov

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Birthdate:  31 Mar 1934 Birthplace:  Porfiryevka / Yevpatoriya Rayon / Crimean ASSR of the Russian SFSR Marital status:  married with Sinaida I. Kostina Children:   - Selection date:  07 Mar 1960 Selection group:  TsPK-1 Job:  Pilot Status:  Ret. 04 May 1963 Date of death:  18 Feb 1966 Place of death:  Ippolitovka / Primorsk Kray / Russian SFSR

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Additional information

• Graduated from Higher Air Force School, Monino, 1963; Captain and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 (TsPK-1).
• OKP ('Obshchekosmicheskaya Podgotovka = General Space Training') (cosmonaut basic training): 3/60 - 18.01.1961; was assigned as 2nd double for Vostok 1; discharged of disciplinary reasons; his space career was aborted.
• He went back to flying jets in Siberia; sinking deeper into depression and alcoholism, he experienced "a crisis of soul"; in the predawn hours of February 18, 1966, while drunk, he stepped in front of a train near the Ippolitovka station, northwest of Vladivostok, and was killed. Whether it was intentional or accidental, nobody could tell.