Boris Yegorov
Boris Borisovich Yegorov (Russian Борис Борисович Егоров; * November 26, 1937 in Moscow, † September 12, 1994 ) was a Soviet cosmonaut and physician.
Boris Yegorov, who came from a medically dominated parents (his father was a heart surgeon, his mother an ophthalmologist ), began to study medicine, which he graduated in 1961 at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. During his studies he learned Yuri Gagarin know. He inspired henceforth for Aerospace Medicine. In 1961 he competed at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He specialized in equilibrium systems.
After the doctor had been chosen on 26 May 1964 as a cosmonaut Boris Yegorov has flown on 12 October 1964, the new three-seat spacecraft Voskhod 1 as Research Cosmonaut with medical focus space; he was the first physician in space. At the time of his space flight Yegorov was only 26 years old, according to German Titov and Valentina Tereshkova, he is the third youngest astronaut ever.
In the same year difference Yegorov but again from the cosmonaut corps. This very short even by Soviet standards dwell time is still reason to believe that the inclusion in the Soviet cosmonaut program by his father, then a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, was made possible.
1965, the former cosmonaut was taken as the candidate of medical sciences. This study concluded Yegorov 1976 with a doctorate of medical sciences; From 1984 he was a professor.
In 1967, Yegorov a job as a laboratory director at the Institute for Medical and biological problems ( Institut Medico - Biologitscheskich problem) to. From 1984 to 1989, the physician was head of the Biomedical - Technological Institute of the Ministry of Health of the USSR. 1989 different Boris Yegorov from active military service and medical service. He died in 1994 of a heart attack.
Yegorov was married three times and had three children.
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After the cosmonauts of the asteroid ( 8450 ) Yegorov was named.