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title: "Anatoly Levchenko"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Levchenko"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T12:39:36.114874+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko (Russian: Анатолий Семёнович Левченко; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme.
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Trained as a test pilot and selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1980, Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight. As part of his preparations, he also accomplished test-flights with Buran's counterpart OK-GLI aircraft.
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In March 1987, Levchenko 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.
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In the year following his spaceflight, Anatoly Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.
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He was married with one child.
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== Awards ==
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He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and the Order of Lenin.
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== Commemoration ==
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Anatoly Levchenko is buried at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky.
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There is a memorial plate with his image installed on the wall of house 2 at Chkalova Street where Anatoly once lived in Zhukovsky.
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== See also ==
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List of notable brain tumor patients
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== References == |