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Dmitry Zaikin
(1932 - 2013)
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor who trained several generations of space travelers.
Dmitry Zaikin was born in 1932 in the Soviet Union and became a military pilot.
He joined the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center as an instructor, preparing cosmonauts for space missions.
Zaikin taught flight techniques, zero-gravity operations, and emergency procedures to would-be spacefarers.
He contributed to the success of early Vostok and Soyuz missions by refining training protocols.
After a long career, he retired in the 1980s and was honored for his service to the Soviet space program.
Zaikin died in 2013, remembered as a key figure behind the scenes of human spaceflight.
Dmitry Zaikin