Anatoly Levchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anatoly Levchenko

Soviet cosmonaut

Date of Birth: 21-May-1941

Place of Birth: Krasnokutsk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1988

Profession: astronaut, test pilot, aircraft pilot

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko (Russian: ???????? ????????? ????????; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space.
In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth about a week later on Soyuz TM-3.
His mission is sometimes called Mir LII-1, after the Gromov Flight Research Institute shorthand.
In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.Selected as a cosmonaut on July 12, 1980.
He was married with one child.